How does war affect the climate?
With the Ukrainian counter-offensive underway, Sophie Eastaugh looks at the climate damage caused by the conflict there and by the recent civil war in Tigray, Ethiopia.\n \nSophie speaks to Lennard de Klerk, a Dutch specialist in carbon accounting, who\u2019s just published the most comprehensive analysis yet of the greenhouse gas emissions caused by the fighting in Ukraine. For her part, an environmental researcher in Kyiv tells The Climate Question her country may have an opportunity to build back greener once the war is over.
The programme also hears from farmers in Tigray about how a region once praised internationally for its reforestation efforts is now losing tree cover at an alarming rate.
And this edition of The Climate Question looks more broadly at the carbon footprint of militaries around the world, speaking to Professor Neta Crawford, one of the leading experts in the field.\n \nPresenter: Sophie Eastaugh \nProducer: Daniel Gordon \nResearch: Matt Toulson\nSound Mix: Tom Brignell\nSeries producer: Alex Lewis \nEditor: China Collins \nProduction coordinators: Sophie Hill, Debbie Richford \n \nContributors:\nLennard de Klerk, Carbon Accounting Expert \nProfessor Neta Crawford, Balliol College, Oxford \nNatalia Gozak, Ukrainian environmentalist \nBiniam Gidey, Reporter, Tigray, Ethiopia