Is war one of the biggest threats to the world’s climate?

Speaking astatine this year’s COP30 successful Brazil, UN main Antonio Guterres called the inability to bounds planetary warming to 1.5C (2.7F) a “deadly motivation failure”.

But does the aforesaid use erstwhile it comes to protecting the situation successful conflict?

Israel’s two-year warfare connected Gaza has created 61 cardinal tonnes of rubble, with astir a 4th contaminated with asbestos and different hazardous materials.

And scientists pass that Israel’s usage of water, nutrient and vigor arsenic weapons of warfare successful Gaza has near farmland and ecosystems facing irreversible collapse.

In Syria, President Ahmed al-Sharaa has cited his country’s worst drought successful much than six decades arsenic grounds of accelerating clime alteration and warned that it could hinder Syria’s post-war recovery.

So, wherefore isn’t struggle seen arsenic a clime issue? And wherefore is the biology toll of warfare truthful often ignored?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests: Kate Mackintosh – lawman seat of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide

Elaine Donderer – catastrophe hazard specialist

Farai Maguwu – manager of the Zimbabwe-based Centre for Natural Resource Governance