Ukraine uses Cop27 to highlight environmental cost of Russia’s war

Delegation at climate summit tell of destruction of protected areas and carbon toll of invasion and rebuilding

Ukraine has used the Cop27 climate talks to make the case that Russia's invasion is causing an environmental as well as humanitarian catastrophe, with fossil fuels a key catalyst of the country's destruction.

Ukraine has dispatched two dozen officials to the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to spell out the links between the war launched by Russia in February, the soaring cost of energy due to Russia's status as a key gas supplier, and the planet-heating emissions expelled by the offensive.