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The analysis covers the period from February 28 to March 14, 2026, and estimates total emissions of approximately 5.1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) across five categories: the destruction of homes and civilian buildings, the burning of oil stored in bombed refineries and tankers, fuel consumed in combat and support operations, the embodied carbon of destroyed military equipment, and the embodied carbon in missiles and drones used by all parties.
The largest source was not the weapons or the fighter jets and bombers flying from as far as western England, but the destruction of civilian infrastructure. Based on Red Crescent Society of Iran reports that approximately 20,000 civilian units were damaged or destroyed, including 16,191 residential buildings, 3,384 commercial units, 77 medical centers and 69 schools, the researchers estimated 2.4 million tCO2e in embodied emissions that will be released when rubble is cleared and infrastructure rebuilt.
These figures come alongside the thousands of Iranians killed during the genocidal conflict, including more than 170 children murdered during the destruction of an elementary girls’ school in Minab.
The second-largest source of emissions was the destruction of oil infrastructure. The US and Israel struck storage facilities in Tehran, Shahran and Aghdasieh, while Iranian drone strikes set fires at facilities in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. Iran also struck at least five oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. The researchers estimated between 2.5 and 5.9 million barrels of oil were destroyed in these strikes, producing approximately 1.9 million tCO2e. Fuel consumed in combat and support operations added another 529,000 tCO2e.
Fuel used during combat was the third largest source of tCO2e, producing 529,000 metric tons. This is followed by war materiel that was destroyed and will be replaced, which will produce another 172,000 tCO2e. And the missiles and drones used across the first two weeks of the conflict used produced another 55,000 tCO2e.
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The analysis covers the period from February 28 to March 14, 2026, and estimates total emissions of approximately 5.1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) across five categories: the destruction of homes and civilian buildings, the burning of oil stored in bombed refineries and tankers, fuel consumed in combat and support operations, the embodied carbon of destroyed military equipment, and the embodied carbon in missiles and drones used by all parties.
The largest source was not the weapons or the fighter jets and bombers flying from as far as western England, but the destruction of civilian infrastructure. Based on Red Crescent Society of Iran reports that approximately 20,000 civilian units were damaged or destroyed, including 16,191 residential buildings, 3,384 commercial units, 77 medical centers and 69 schools, the researchers estimated 2.4 million tCO2e in embodied emissions that will be released when rubble is cleared and infrastructure rebuilt.
These figures come alongside the thousands of Iranians killed during the genocidal conflict, including more than 170 children murdered during the destruction of an elementary girls’ school in Minab.
The second-largest source of emissions was the destruction of oil infrastructure. The US and Israel struck storage facilities in Tehran, Shahran and Aghdasieh, while Iranian drone strikes set fires at facilities in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. Iran also struck at least five oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. The researchers estimated between 2.5 and 5.9 million barrels of oil were destroyed in these strikes, producing approximately 1.9 million tCO2e. Fuel consumed in combat and support operations added another 529,000 tCO2e.
Fuel used during combat was the third largest source of tCO2e, producing 529,000 metric tons. This is followed by war materiel that was destroyed and will be replaced, which will produce another 172,000 tCO2e. And the missiles and drones used across the first two weeks of the conflict used produced another 55,000 tCO2e.
US-Israel war on Iran is accelerating climate change
A new analysis by the Climate and Community Institute finds that the first two weeks of the US-Israel war on Iran produced more greenhouse gas emissions than Iceland with its volcanos generates in a year and that the consequences for fossil fuel dependence will dwarf the emissions of the...
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Two weeks of war in Iran unleashed more carbon pollution than Iceland does in a year
US and Israeli bombardment is inflicting climate costs for decades to come
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