- A landmark U.N. report found about half of the world’s population is now acutely vulnerable to disasters stemming from the burning of fossil fuels.
- Energy-importing countries, meanwhile, continue to top up President Vladimir Putin’s war chest with oil and gas revenue on a daily basis.
- “The conclusion should be that the sooner we will stop our dependency on fossil fuels, the better world we will have for us and our children,” Ukraine’s leading climate scientist Svitlana Krakovska said.
Ukraine’s leading climate scientist Svitlana Krakovska says the primary driver of the climate emergency and the root cause of Russia’s war with Ukraine are directly connected: Both stem from humanity’s fossil fuel dependency.
Speaking via telephone from her apartment in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv, Krakovska told CNBC she’d lost track of the days of the week and had instead been referring to the number of days since Russia launched its unprovoked onslaught on Feb. 24.
The conflict has triggered a devastating humanitarian crisis, sent shockwaves through financial markets and left Russia increasingly isolated on the global stage.
“I should say that now it is not even a war. In the beginning it was like war because we had armies fighting but now Russia is just shelling our cities. It is just genocide of our Ukrainian nation,” Krakovska told CNBC.
“It is really scary — more scary even than the beginning because we don’t know when the next strike will be or in which city.”
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