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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Damien Gayle

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds

Black smoke and flames rising from a structure.
Shahran oil refinery in north-west Tehran on 8 March after an overnight airstrike. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The US-Israel war on Iran is a disaster for the climate, according to an analysis that finds it is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined.

As warplanes, drones and missiles kill thousands of people, level infrastructure and turn the Middle East into a gigantic environmental sacrifice zone, the first analysis of the climate cost has found the conflict led to 5m tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in its first 14 days.

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