Assessing the impact of war on climate: how it will be considered

When assessing climate damage, the social cost of carbon of $185 per tonne of CO2 eq is often used. If we apply the social cost of carbon, the total climate damage caused by the full-scale war is estimated at more than 42 billion dollars. Vasilina Bello, Head of the Climate Department of the NGO Ecodia, writes about this in the article “The bill that nature will have to pay”. The social cost of carbon measures the present value of an additional …