{"id":4240,"date":"2026-11-12T00:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T19:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2026-11-12T00:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T19:04:05","slug":"iran-tells-cop31-it-wants-compensation-for-environmental-damage-from-us-israeli-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4240","title":{"rendered":"Iran tells COP31 it wants compensation for environmental damage from US-Israeli strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian told the COP31 climate conference on Wednesday that his country wanted compensation for environmental \u200bdamage caused by US and Israeli strikes, saying the \u200cissue is related to global efforts to fight climate change.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect the global community to establish a genuine and meaningful link between climate commitments in \u200btimes of peace and responsibility in times of war, \u200bto document and assess the environmental damages caused by \u2060military aggressions and to develop compensation mechanisms,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>His comments \u200bwere part of back-to-back speeches by heads of state on the \u200bthird day of the two-week conference in Turkiye.<\/p>\n<p>International climate agreements currently include billions of dollars in wealthy-country finance to help developing countries adapt to climate change \u200band pay for its impacts, but there is no provision \u200bcovering environmental impacts of military strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The US and Israel launched a military \u200ccampaign \u2060against Iran in late February. The conflict, which spread to Lebanon and the Gulf, has involved repeated strikes on energy infrastructure in Iran and across the wider region, as well as strikes on shipping. \u200bIran has repeatedly \u200battacked oil \u2060tankers navigating the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Those attacks have caused environmental damage, including substantial oil leaks.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran war \u200bmay also have led to a reduction in \u200boverall \u2060global emissions. A report from a consortium of international scientists on Tuesday said global fossil fuel emissions are on track to fall slightly \u2060this \u200byear, in part due to high prices \u200bfor fuel and expanded use of renewable energy in the wake of the \u200bconflict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian told the COP31 climate conference on Wednesday that his country wanted compensation for environmental \u200bdamage caused by US and Israeli strikes, saying the \u200cissue is related to global efforts to fight climate change. \u201cWe expect the global community to establish a genuine and meaningful link between climate commitments in \u200btimes of peace and responsibility in times of war, \u200bto document and assess the environmental damages caused by \u2060military aggressions and to develop compensation mechanisms,\u201d he said. His comments \u200bwere part of back-to-back speeches by heads of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}