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Science of The Total Environment | Tracking unaccounted greenhouse gas emissions due to the war in Ukraine since 2022

In this paper, the authors analyze how, during the first 18 months of the 2022/2023 full-scale war in Ukraine, GHG national inventory reporting to the UNFCCC was affected. We estimated the decrease of emissions due to a reduction in traditional human activities. They identified major, war-related, emission processes from the territory of Ukraine not covered by current GHG inventory guidelines…
Ellie Kinney
05.01.24
Academic papers

Antipode | Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq

The authors examine one sliver of the hidden carbon emissions of late-modern warfare by focusing on the use of concrete “blast walls” by US forces in Baghdad over a five-year period (2003–2008). This study uses a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to study one of the world's largest military carbon footprints of concrete, an infrastructural weapon in late-modern urban counterinsurgencies. Moving…
Ellie Kinney
11.12.23
Academic papers

International Affairs | Low-carbon warfare: climate change, net zero and military operations

Defence has a carbon problem. This article introduces the concept of ‘low-carbon warfare’ as a means of capturing recent developments, the extent to which they dovetail with existing concerns regarding the business of war in the twenty-first century, and the prospect of significant changes to how militaries operate in the years ahead as the global energy transition unfolds.
Ellie Kinney
16.02.23
Academic papers

Pentagon fuel use, climate change and the costs of war

Neta Crawford explores the U.S. military’s contribution to climate change. She finds that although the Defense Department has significantly reduced its fossil fuel consumption since the early 2000s, it remains the world’s single largest consumer of oil – and as a result, one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters.
MinuteWorks
01.09.19