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around the world today account for 5.5% of global greenhouse gas 
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                        class=m_-4874777258227687717mcnPreviewText>Excluding 
                        combat, military operations around the world today 
                        account for 5.5% of global greenhouse gas 
                        emissions.</SPAN> 
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                                class=m_-4874777258227687717mcnPreviewText>Excluding 
                                combat, military operations around the world 
                                today account for 5.5% of global greenhouse gas 
                                emissions.</SPAN> 
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                                dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 15px">Dear 
                                friends!</SPAN></P>  
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                                dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 15px">Excluding 
                                combat, military operations around the world 
                                today account for 5.5% of global emissions. As 
                                Nina Lakhani wrote in an <A 
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                                style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">article</SPAN></SPAN></A> 
                                published in the Guardian, if the world’s 
                                militaries were a separate country, their total 
                                carbon footprint would exceed Russia’s total 
                                emissions. Calculating the total emissions 
                                caused by wars and armed conflicts is currently 
                                impossible. After all, this not only includes 
                                combat operations, but infrastructure 
                                restoration. At the same time, new sources of 
                                pollution are constantly appearing, such as the 
                                fiber optics used by FPV drones. Read more about 
                                this and much more in our 
                                review:</SPAN></P>  
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                                style="COLOR: #202020; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" 
                                href="https://uwecworkgroup.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=528f414adac434c7d7ea5dde0&id=421cc3bae0&e=664211199c" 
                                target=_blank><SPAN 
                                style="COLOR: #0000ff">Environmental 
                                consequences of the war in Ukraine: May – June 
                                2025 review</SPAN></A></SPAN> </LI></UL>  
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                                dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 15px">Armed 
                                conflicts also have indirect consequences. One 
                                of the most high-profile this year was the 
                                Decemvber 2024 fuel oil spill in the Black Sea 
                                when river fuel tankers servicing a Russian 
                                “shadow fleet” vessel sank. The UWEC Work Group 
                                previously analyzed in detail both the <A 
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                                style="COLOR: #0000ff">environmental 
                                consequences</SPAN></A> of the disaster and <A 
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                                target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: #0000ff">its 
                                causes</SPAN></A>. A new study by UWEC experts 
                                explores the international response. Ukrainian 
                                lands were significantly polluted due to the 
                                accident, in both occupied and free areas. 
                                Ukraine’s representatives have demanded that the 
                                Russian government be held accountable and 
                                punished, but the reaction of international 
                                organizations has been underwhelming. At the 
                                same time, the spill’s instigator has received 
                                international support to eliminate the 
                                consequences of the 
                                disaster.</SPAN><BR> </P>
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                                style="COLOR: #0000ff">International reaction to 
                                the Kerch Strait oil spill</SPAN></A></SPAN> 
                                </LI></UL>  
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                                dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 15px">Another 
                                example of pollution not directly related to 
                                military action is the improper closure of coal 
                                mines in the Donbas region, most of which is 
                                occupied by Russian troops. Water fills the 
                                mines, not only causing heavy metal pollution, 
                                but also <A 
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                                style="COLOR: #0000ff">severe 
                                drought</SPAN></A><SPAN style="COLOR: #0000ff"> 
                                </SPAN>in the Donetsk region. Contributor Inha 
                                Pavliy investigates how the Ukrainian coal 
                                industry has been affected by the war and the 
                                consequences for the 
                                environment.</SPAN><BR> </P>
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                                style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><A 
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                                target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: #0000ff">Black 
                                legacy: How war is turning Ukraine’s coal mines 
                                into time bombs</SPAN></A></SPAN> 
                                </LI></UL>  
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                                dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 15px">Evidence 
                                that the occupied territories are facing an 
                                ecological catastrophe appears almost every day. 
                                For example, this summer the Black Sea Biosphere 
                                Reserve burned, with a devastating fire in 
                                Yahorlytsky Kut, a unique steppe ecosystem home 
                                to rare steppe bird species.</SPAN></P>
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                                dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 15px">Founded in 
                                1927, the reserve is a combination of high 
                                conservation value steppe, wetlands, forests, 
                                water areas and islands. It was one of the first 
                                in the Soviet Union to be included in the 
                                international UNESCO network of biosphere 
                                reserves in 1979. Russian forces occupied the 
                                reserve in the first months of its full-scale 
                                invasion. The largest fire there to date 
                                occurred recently, a few days after the Russian 
                                Federation announced the creation of the Federal 
                                State Budgetary Institution Black Sea Reserve, a 
                                “Russian” analogue of the Ukrainian nature 
                                reserve.</SPAN><BR> </P>
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                                style="COLOR: #0000ff">Biosphere reserve burns 
                                at the start of the occupation administration’s 
                                work</SPAN></A></SPAN> </LI></UL>  
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                                dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 15px">Despite 
                                the many challenges (including environmental 
                                ones) in “controlled” territories, Russia 
                                continues its international demarche. On July 
                                22, Russia’s State Duma (representative body of 
                                the Russian government) denounced the Ramsar 
                                Convention on Wetlands. The Convention on 
                                Wetlands was adopted in 1971 in Ramsar, Iran to 
                                protect wetlands and the habitats of migratory 
                                waterfowl. The USSR ratified it in 1979. 
                                Withdrawal from the convention threatens 35 
                                nature conservation areas covering an area of 
                                over 10 million hectares that were protected by 
                                this agreement. Expert Eugene Simonov studies 
                                the possible reasons for withdrawal and the 
                                consequences for the environment:</SPAN></P>
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                                <LI dir=ltr aria-level=1><SPAN 
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                                style="COLOR: #0000ff">Russia exits Ramsar 
                                Convention on Wetlands</SPAN></A></SPAN> 
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                                dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 15px">War deals 
                                crushing blows to nature every day, and 
                                political crises only worsen the situation. The 
                                term “ecocide” is increasingly frequently 
                                mentioned in both the media and everyday 
                                conversation. What does ecocide mean for 
                                Ukrainians? Is it only a legal term or something 
                                more? It can also be a personal and collective 
                                experience that contemplates the destruction of 
                                native nature. UWEC Work Group reviewed Darya 
                                Tsymbalyuk’s book “Ecocide in Ukraine: 
                                Ecological Price of War in 
                                Russia”:</SPAN></P>  
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                                style="COLOR: #0000ff">Review: Ecocide in 
                                Ukraine. The Environmental Cost of Russia’s 
                                War</SPAN></A></SPAN></P></LI></UL>  
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                                dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 15px">Meanwhile, 
                                Ukraine continues planning the nation’s “green 
                                recovery” when the war ends. On June 30, the 
                                Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources 
                                presented the first draft of a legislative bill 
                                “On the Fundamentals of the Green Recovery of 
                                Ukraine.Ukraine’s green recovery: legislative 
                                step toward eco-integration in 
                                reconstructio”.</SPAN><BR> </P>
                                <UL>
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                                style="COLOR: #0000ff">Ukraine’s green recovery: 
                                legislative step toward eco-integration in 
                                reconstruction</SPAN></A></SPAN> 
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                                “green recovery” will be a long journey. In 
                                addition to external factors, there are also 
                                internal ones, in particular, the government 
                                moved to restructure and effectively abolish the 
                                Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources in 
                                July. UWEC Work Group will be tracking these 
                                developments and how they may affect 
                                environmental problem-solving in both Ukraine 
                                and the larger region and what opportunities 
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                                we publish our research and materials at no cost 
                                in the public domain so that everyone can read 
                                about the environmental consequences of Russia's 
                                full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We also actively 
                                work with journalists and other media. The 
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                                recovery following the Kakhovka dam’s 
                                destruction. This allows us to disseminate 
                                information about the environmental consequences 
                                of war as widely as possible to a global 
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