Study: US and UK militaries owe combined $111bn in climate reparations

The first-of-its-kind study found the two militaries have generated about 430m metric tonnes of CO₂ emissions since 2015 Paris accords

The US and UK militaries owe at least $111bn in reparations to communities most harmed by their planet-heating pollution, a first-of-its-kind study calculates.

The research employs a “social cost of carbon” framework – a way to estimate the cost, in dollars, of the climate damage done by each additional tonne of carbon in the atmosphere.