The US military is known to be the main source of pollution in the Middle East
According to an IRNA report on Monday from the Middle East I website; In 2017 alone, the US military purchased an average of 269,230 barrels of oil per day, and in the same period, a total of more than 25 million tons of carbon dioxide entered the air.
Greenhouse gas emissions, the main cause of global warming, have tripled in the past 30 years, with the Middle East and North Africa from the Maghreb to Iran warming by four degrees Celsius, twice the global warming average. Is. The Middle East has become one of the most affected areas of the world by the negative effects of climate change, with severe droughts, wildlife destruction, widespread flooding and damage to millions of tons of air pollution, making some parts uninhabitable. Has been.
Coinciding with the G8 summit, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions remains unlikely to be considered, as no country is required to publicly report greenhouse gas emissions from its armed forces. .
Researchers and activists for the protection of the Earth’s climate have identified the US military as the major consumer of oil as well as the largest and main producer of greenhouse gases on the planet, which in addition to waging wars in the Middle East in the last 20 years, A greenhouse has spread across the planet, they say. An estimate of the Brown University War Cost Project shows that between 2001 and 2017, the U.S. military injected nearly 1.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere, of which 400 million tons were directly from post-war wars. September 11, 2001 in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Syria. If the US military were to be considered a country in the Middle East, it would be the eighth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the region.
According to researchers at Durham and Lancaster Universities in the UK; In 2017 alone, the US military purchased an average of 269,230 barrels of oil per day and imported more than 25 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that year. The US military’s most harmful source of greenhouse gas emissions is jet fuel, which burns two to four times as much as other fuels due to burning at high altitudes.
The 26th United Nations Climate Summit (COP26) kicked off in Glasgow, Scotland, on Sunday, November 9, with the participation of thousands of leaders and representatives from 200 countries. During the two-week conference, intensive diplomatic talks were held on how to tackle global warming as a common global challenge, and world leaders and representatives set out their goals and commitments to tackle the effects of climate change and how to reduce emissions. Greenhouse gases are provided by 2030.
The delegations and negotiators at the meeting are expected to force the world to take more ambitious measures and commitments to prevent global warming and limit the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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