Date: 18.11.2025
Time: 15:00 (BRT)
Location: UNFCCC Pavilion Side Event Room 2
Ukraine will hold a high-level event on the sidelines of COP30 to present new findings on the climate impact of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The session will outline how military operations, large-scale destruction, extensive fuel burning, landscape fires, and other war-related processes have generated significant greenhouse gas emissions that will have long-term consequences for global climate efforts.
The event will present new scientific data quantifying these emissions, and will explain how the environmental cost of the war affects not only Ukraine, but also the wider region and the global climate system. It will also address the relevance of these findings to Ukraine’s approach to green recovery, international climate cooperation and future policy planning.
Speakers and panelists:
- Pavlo Kartashov, Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine
- Lennard de Klerk, Lead author of the Initiative on GHG Accounting of War
- Andres Sutt, Minister of Energy and the Environment of Estonia
- Tony Agotha, Ambassador at large/EU Special Envoy for Climate and Environment
- Izabella Teixeira, Former Minister of Environment of Brazil, member of High-Level Working Group on the Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine
- Laurence Tubiana, CEO European Climate Foundation, France’s Climate Change Ambassador during COP21, member of High-Level Working Group on the Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine
- Sylvie Goyet, Deputy Coordinator and Head of Environmental Activities, OSCE