مجلة المفكر
Volume 18, Numéro 1, Pages 697-708
2023-06-15

Russia’s War In Ukraine: An Overview Of Climate Impacts

Authors : Litim Nadia .

Abstract

Abstract This research paper aims to highlight the different impacts of Russian‘s war on Ukraine and analyze its consequences on the climate change. In fact, this current war, began on February 24, 2022 has unexpected impacts on global climate. The research paper used the descriptive method and reached a number of conclusions and proposals, the most important of which is that however, the Russian’s invasion of Ukraine has some positive consequences on the climate change, especially in clean energy transition, it unfortunately inflicted catastrophic impacts not only on the Ukraine’s environment but also, it is putting the future of global climate at risk. This war increased significantly the fossil fuels consumption and contributed to the slow implementation of the global climate agenda. In addition, it caused a large amount of greenhouse gases emissions that warm the Earth's atmosphere and accelerate the global climate change.

Keywords

Climate ; Impact ; Russian ; Ukraine ; War