The first two years of Russia’s war in Ukraine have produced 175 million tons of carbon dioxide
Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty ImagesIn November 2022, the United Nations resolved that Russia should pay reparations for the losses, damages and injuries caused by its invasion of Ukraine. Now, some scientists say those payments should include compensation for climate damage, too.
Their calculation uses a figure known as the social cost of carbon, a metric designed to estimate the economic costs of greenhouse gas emissions. Aput that cost at around $185 per ton of CO2, which is the figure the new report used. That’s less than the Biden administration’s own estimate, which prices the social cost of carbon at $190 per ton.
“There are all sorts of ideas and discussions on how to distribute these reparations,” said Lennard de Klerk, the lead author of that report. As the war dragged on, de Klerk started thinking of ways he could help calculate the damages Ukraine was suffering. Earlier in his career, he’d worked as an expert in greenhouse gas accounting and carbon markets, including a stint chairing the U.N.’s Joint Implementation Action Group, a carbon trading system established under the Kyoto Protocol.
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