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Militaries should limit war impact on climate

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Fires ignited by explosions cause the destruction of biodiversity and their habitats, interfere with the ecosystem and limit carbon sequestration. [AFP]

The gory images of war victims in Gaza, Yemen, Sudan and Ukraine and other nations traumatise, as brothers rise against brothers and cities are reduced to heaps of rubble.

Shelling has claimed innocent lives, some too young to comprehend the conflicts. The negative effects of the military conflicts may however be well beyond immediate and most visible devastation, with critical questions being the environmental impacts touching global carbon emissions, and subsequent worsening of the climate crisis.

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