Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called for a way to assess and compensate for environmental damage from war, citing emissions estimates he said were tied to attacks on fuel infrastructure.
Pezeshkian estimated total emissions at 1.5 million tons of carbon dioxide. He assigned 1 million tons to fuel storage tanks near Tehran and 500,000 tons to gas-processing facilities in Asaluyeh.
Anadolu Agency reported that Israeli strikes targeted oil-storage facilities in Tehran on March 7; it separately dated an attack on gas-processing facilities in Asaluyeh to March 18.
At the COP31 climate summit Wednesday, Pezeshkian called for an international mechanism to record and assess environmental damage from military operations, followed by a compensation process. He urged the international community to link peacetime climate commitments with accountability for environmental damage during war.
Reuters reported that existing climate agreements make billions of dollars available to developing countries for adaptation and climate-related losses. The outlet said those arrangements do not address environmental harm from military operations.
