Gaza war emissions has ‘huge climate cost’

‘Toxic pollutants… will remain long after the fighting is over.’ Benjamin Neimark, the co-author of study into greenhouse gas emissions from the war in Gaza.

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM)’s peace and disarmament team has highlighted a study showing that the first months of the conflict in Gaza produced more planet-warming gases than twenty climate-vulnerable nations do in a year. ‘One of the lesser talked about calamities of the terrible war in Gaza and one that affects the entire planet,’ they tweeted on 10 January.

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