Join us for an exciting exploration of everything in between. This is a video and audio production 5 d, w. I hope that you will tune in the eco enemy, how dangerous this was for the climate. The explosive legacy now says, still suffering the after effects. If the indo china was and quick, a clearance, a Swiss Company disposes of land mines the the, the 52 boma has been the United States main Nuclear Deterrent since the 1950s. That fits a real threat to the claimant. One hour a flight requires around 15000 liters of fuel and release is huge amounts of c, o 2, the defense is an expensive undertaking. In 2020 to 2200000. 00 was spent on the military worldwide. The war and ukraine has accelerated, the global arms race, and new conflicts like the war in guns will continue to intensify worldwide, minute tree spending of the production of tank ships come back to croft and i munition is ramp top. This is bad news for us and for the claim, its talking about Greenhouse Gas emissions when it comes to war. And the military may sound weird. Walk rates, all sorts of destruction. People get killed, forced burn down an entire seat is destroyed. And all that is horrible. Beyond imagination, but here i want to focus on the emissions. The military still to footprint is a mess of blind spot. Partially because the data is really sparse. Look at this map, it shows the quantity of the data that governments submit to the you when, when it comes to their military emissions. The reporting of the 5 countries with the biggest military budgets, this all procedure to a very poor india, the 2nd largest military. But troop size doesnt give any admission segers at all. You cant begin to think about managing effectively, your Greenhouse Gas emissions. You dont know what they are in the 1st place. Clinical trial works at the conflict and environmental observatory. Weve got at the moment, very limited knowledge. Really. Weve been trying to map this and assess it, but because it science sit tight, find if the United Nations frameworks comments on Climate Change a and theres too many holes. And we need governments to recognize that this is the importance of this. The origin of this problem dates back to the kyoto protocol, a climate agreement adopted in 1997 back then after strong lobby from the United States. The worlds means that rewards attempted from declaring their emissions then came the periods agreement to 2015. They lifted up to golf in minutes to decide how and where to cut their emissions. And the military reporting was again, not made mandatory. This fight today we have no clue how much the worlds armies limit. But we do know the problem is getting bigger. Military spending worldwide grow 3. 7 percent, on average in 2022 in eastern europe, triggered by russias invasion of ukraine. Youd wind up by 58 percent in a row. Part of these is going to modernize him to fight a jet fleet. Some countries are replacing their old f sixteens which are being sent to ukraine with this new f 35 right now in europe alone. There are around a 120. 00 of 35. 00 general probation. Foot lockheed martin. Its producer expects this number to rise to 62013 the last splints to buy some 2500 new units. Such long term commitments are called locked in. The f 35 that are being bought now will flight and burn fuel up until the 2070 according to one analysis for each 100 nautical miles long. Thats around a 185 kilometers, one single f 35. 00 inmates as much as you to as an average u. K. Gasoline car, grieving for one year. So what did the worlds armed forces have to say for themselves for reached out to the big for us, china, russia, and india for comments. But none of them got back to us. Military officials seem to see Climate Change mainly as a security risk. Only a field such as nato c installed them, their call out their own emissions as part of the problem. But do also need to ensure that our on forces do their part when it comes to reducing emissions. Theres no way we can get to the next 0 without also reducing emissions from the military sector. But its hard to know how much of a reduction is needed if nobody knows how much the military actually admits. Thats why scientists started calculating. We estimated it was somewhere between 3. 07 and a global emissions with a best estimate of 5. 5 percent. This is towards parking, so he co wrote a study thats calculated the global footprint of the military, the number of military personnel and was extreme back to spending was significant. Military activity was significant. The number of large pieces of hardware. But a lot of this data is very how long to find or to attach directly to emissions. So we just have to piece together from, from what we could most countries dont publish that data on the military, Greenhouse Gas emissions, claiming it would be a risk to their national security. But they do like to talk about the size of their military with the types of about their aircraft, fleet trip size. And so one, the Research Just use data like this when estimating the emissions of countries that withheld specific data. One thing we do now about india rusher and china rate is a good estimate of the size of military policy. Intensive number s now, and then you look at the relationships between number of tests and now the size of emissions in western countries. And you say ok, well roughly, is going to that those ratios are going to apply in those countries united depending on how many extra bands have and various other factors. They just make a few assumptions. The Us Armed Forces represent 39 percent of all the military spending on the planet and all that money causes, and i believe little amount of nations as an institution. The pentagon is the biggest single Greenhouse Gas in either in the world. So big they didnt meet small Greenhouse Gas sustaining. Ty, countries such as sweden or finland and lets be clear. Were only talking about the emissions it takes to beaut, up and sustain a military. If the worst case happens and direct me to, to be actually goes to war, emissions go up immensely. Look at this graph that shows you asked me to turn Greenhouse Gas emissions from 1975 to 2018. In 1991 theres a spike right when the 1st gulf war happens, then it goes down as cold war tensions east. And you asked me to 3rd bases abroad, close down. Then another spike from 2001 after 911 endings. Agents of against 10 and youre ranked with the conflict in ukraine, took measuring things are mental impact of war to a whole new level. It is a conflict in the big data era where we can fold the federal fields to satellite images and the ukraine government even publishes what the Environmental Impact the military actions have, including the units of equipment destroyed and the cost of emissions. This study funded by insurance from ukraine and us estimated that during the 1st a year and a half after the russian invasion, ukraine, 150000000 metric tons of c o 2 were admitted. This is equivalent to belgium emissions in the same periods. The war fighting and generates quite a lot of emissions. Lena, the clerk is a climate scientist and the lead, the author of this study to use it show a fossil fuels for. Busy tanks bind to chance, but also the whole logistics behind, you know, the boat from the lines to bring new and munition rotates. Soldiers provide food, etc. Its a truck. What i sort of initially expected that and that would be the biggest source of the me, sions. But thats actually the notifications. The biggest source of emissions comes from having to rebuild. Ukraine does accounts for 36 percent of the nations for fair comes 2nd with 25 percent. Then you have fires with 15 percent because in many cases, 5 fighters cannot access to the territory, so the fires burn up huge areas. Then civilian slides have to be diverted, which adds another chunk of emissions. The air space over ukraine is of course, closed in russia has closed its air space to western airlines as a response we cannot extensions. So a flight, for example, from london to tokyo, now takes around 15 hours instead of the previous 11th century routing splits an extra 18000000. 00 tons of c o. 2 into the atmosphere in the 1st year and a half of the conflict were also requires few to keep both armies running. But the russian army have used 3 and a half times more fuels into ukrainians. According to the research, as this is because the russian supply lines are much longer than the green ones, the other recent study has measured the impact of warring causes. It calculated that in the 1st 60 days of the conflicts, the fighting generated more than 281000. 00 metric tons of su, to as much as 62500. 00 gasoline powered cars and meet in one year. And that doesnt include future emissions for rebuilding garza. Most of it sets reduce it to this riley air bombardment and invasion of the posting in territory. As we published is vito, the study has not yet been peer reviewed. So it needs to be taken with caution to some more evidence that points to the enormous impact of war has on Climate Change. So where does that leave us . Military forces that are massive drivers, Climate Change, war makes it worse a lot to or so what can we do about it . There is a tension of pause between unitary capabilities and Climate Change and the missions. And its up to, you know, the politicians, to make, you know, the right decision where the balance should be. But you can only make it sort of transparent decision. If you have some numbers that have been some baby steps in the right direction. The wind has recognized the problem, is this pushing for much greater transparency. Some countries already declaring their military emissions and im up some spirits wait, such as the u. K. Norway, in germany. Nato has been encouraging its members to deal with this issue. They released the methodology providing guidelines and tools to calculate Greenhouse Gas emissions in the military. Experts say it has its flaws, but it might influence colder armed forces industry found that the Defense Industry manufacturers are also changing such net 0 targets and reporting their emissions. This could put pressure on the military to do the same, but the reporting emissions alone is not enough. The military also needs to be willing to reduce them. And when the military officials are pushed on this, they know their priorities. If we have to choose between something which is green or calm, but the effective, we have to choose the Company Effective solutions. So the challenge is to ensure that in the future to come, but the effective solutions, all agreements, reducing fossil fuel dependency is a way for military to reduce their vulnerability. This could mean among all the things replacing jet slides by drones using electric vehicles and installing Renewable Energy generation on mandatory basis. As well as using nuclear power. That is most clearly shown by the 11 aircraft carriers up the United States, which are all nuclear propelled. While these creates issues like Nuclear Waste reduces the problem of Greenhouse Gas emissions. The proposals are coming out of the middle of the tree establishment are all about moving imagery all about will do fighting all about preparing some will fighting, but this is completely the wrong direction. In which we need to be going, we need to be billed. We need to find ways to build trust. We need to find Common Ground isnt much broad conversation to be had about minute tre, stretched to date and diplomacy, and great to piece building and preventing. Obviously conflict from the 1st place from an environmental perspective, the best solution would obviously be to reduce the military forces everywhere within 2020 for the opposite. This happening with military spending accelerating. The secretive sector is particularly hot to clean up. A 1st step would be to lift the veil and its role in forcing Climate Change, the cluster homes and least a single bomb release is hundreds of explosive devices which can destroy a vast areas upon impact. Often not all the devices explode, continue to pose a threat to decades of to woods us because they remain life and conduct tonight at the slightest touch with terrible consequences. She moves forward step by step centimeter by centimeter, until the metal detector sounds that money has found something a small part of a bomb lower than this one isnt dangerous anymore. But we never know what to find next. To me, i know because of course, so they are d mining 14 heck, there is of land. The mind Detection Team has only covered one 3rd of the area so far a lot can still happen. It comes yes. And i am afraid that every step is dangerous to be, but we do have safety protocols which we follow closely. So everything should be fine. But nothings for sure. So its important to keep focused and take regular breaks. This area is supposed to become agricultural land, but before it can be farmed, it needs to be safe. Every find is checked by the section commander was to that spend money as husband thats it. Got somebody, but i know i do worry about my wife. Shes well trained and knows what shes doing, but generally its difficult to do this job is a couple because its dangerous for both of us and like a problem. According to the Mission Leader of the gate, organization, handicap international constantly reminds them of it. They are in good money way above the average, and the work never runs out. But this is not something they celebrate. We get the government. Its sad to see that today. Bombs are raining down on other countries like ukraine. But a lot of what about the civilians just hold on at the top. We hear in laos are still suffering from a war that took place many years ago is okay. And yet continues to be a danger to our lives when. Because this is what awaits people in todays world zones to come out to them out. Of course, not by the indo china conflict wasnt fucked in vietnam. Only then also saw communist forces in the us supported army face off in los between 1963 and 74. The us dropped more than 2000000 tons of munitions on the country. Incendiary and cluster bombs, shells in mines. Its estimated that every 4th village in louse still has unexploded ordnance. This is what theyre searching for, and finding every day. They market with a sand bag. Stepping on it means it will explode. Even heat caused by sun showed can make it go off profiling. Remember, but finding one means that there are more towards the load noise one dropped, the bomb container contains 600. 00 to 700. 00 explosive devices. Would it be in this area is hailey, and if the munition is dropped from an altitude that was not high enough and then it doesnt explode. What am i thought . We estimate that 30 percent of the explosive devices didnt go off of the end are still here, that they are experts they know when to touch and when not to touch a piece of munition. This motor shell is being placed in a hole in the ground to minimize tract when it explodes. Destination is the only way to remove the thread. But 1st, people in the area are warned to stay away. From the the, the blast like that change cheap for his life. He was 17 when he last part of his arm. Every year, dozens of people experienced a similar fate. Farmers who dig children who play, they lose arms, legs, sometimes their lives. And even then i have the mconnell, we were playing a game with my ball disappeared into the bushes. Mabel, who didnt find it there, but i found something else. When it was round and made of metal with the mac, how do you do it . And then i thought i could play with it to my name and the key. It was a bomb. I mean one chief for us as he became suicidal and thought hed never find a wife and start a family. But he did. Therefore children bring them much joy, but also concerned look in time we constantly worry about the children. I tell them that they have to be very careful when they play, that they cant touch anything. Well, look at your dad, i say, that could happen to you. Youve tried life with one arm has its challenges, but she for meets them in one of the worlds least developed countries. There isnt much opportunity to make a living except in agriculture. She for says, hes lucky to have one healthy arm he can use to provide for his family. But here too, hes taking the risk of what i mean. I do get scared of him the night before me. Another farmer worked this field and Nothing Happened to him. So i assume that its safe on the bottom and that there arent any unexploded bombs here that many people here in los live with the trauma of war. 9 clearance workers likes that money in front of them are trying to remove that after a hard days work. Its dinner time. Today theres enough food for everyone as of now. So let the wind out bite the. We are safe, but my and the everyone is a k and we are relieved. Or when have it, tomorrow is another day and will face new dangerous move info. You will go a white house. That is our job when i dealt with them. So it gets better than the, its been almost 50 years since the war and allows ended. But in a way, it hasnt living here comes with model dangers every day. The switches made mine sweep by is being tested by the Ukrainian Company and they blown one of the launches grain produces in the country. It wants to clear the region around the city of mutual life as mines. So that green can be cultivated here again, up to 30 percent of the companies. Phone land is strewn with unexploded ordnance really was. So you credited a lot of land to i had called to land to reach the need to do mining and to machine. So help us to, to do this process more quickly. This is how it works. The Remote Control clearing machine breaks the landline into small pieces or explodes that this footage is from, as of the john the vehicle being used in ukraine costs around 1000000 swiss francs over a 1000000 years. The Green Company nibble on pays health. The other half is covered by funds from germany, Swiss Company,