Ukraine plans to seek nearly $44 billion in damages from Russia for emissions caused by the ongoing war, marking the first time a country will claim damages for an increase in emissions caused by conflict.

"A lot of damage was caused to water, to land, to forests," Pavlo Kartashov, the country's deputy minister for economy, environment, and agriculture, told Reuters at this year's annual U.N. climate conference, COP30, on Tuesday. "We have huge amounts of additional CO2 emissions and greenhouse gases."

Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, national emissions have risen by over 230 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent—roughly equal to the annual emissions of Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia combined—according to a February assessment by the n

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