Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for the environmental damage caused by military strikes to be documented and compensated, in a speech to the COP31 climate conference in Antalya, Turkey, on Wednesday 11 November.
"We expect the global community to establish a genuine and meaningful link between climate commitments in times of peace and responsibility in times of war, to document and assess the environmental damages caused by military aggressions and to develop compensation mechanisms"
He spoke on the third day of the two-week conference, Reuters reports.
Pezeshkian claimed US and Israeli attacks on Iranian fuel facilities released 1.5m tonnes of CO2, according to Anadolu, as relayed by the Dawn live blog. He put 500,000 tonnes down to attacks on facilities in Asaluyeh and 1m tonnes to strikes on fuel storage tanks near Tehran. The two parts add up to his total, but the figure is an Iranian claim and has not been independently checked.
Dawn says Israeli strikes hit Tehran oil storage on 7 March and Asaluyeh gas processing facilities on 18 March.
Reuters notes that international climate agreements contain no provision covering the environmental impact of military strikes.