Ukraine uses Cop27 to highlight environmental cost of Russia’s war

Smoke rises from an oil refinery after an attack outside the city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine in May. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Ukraine has used the Cop27 climate talks to make the case that Russia’s invasion is causing an environmental as well as humanitarian catastrophe, with fossil fuels a key catalyst of the country’s destruction.

Ukraine has dispatched two dozen officials to the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to spell out the links between the war launched by Russia in February, the soaring cost of energy due to Russia’s status as a key gas supplier, and the planet-heating emissions expelled by the offensive.