Russia's claim of emissions in annexed Ukraine regions draws protests at COP29

Claiming emissions is perhaps not illegal - but claiming emissions as if they were from their own territory, while they are in fact generated on another country's territory, is a unilateral declaration in violation of the international legal status of that territory,

Voigt said

I think that is a sign of the times,

said Reisch on the sidelines of the COP29 summit

We see that Russia is using international platforms to legalise their actions, to legalise their occupation of our territory,

Ukraine's Deputy Environment Minister Olga Yukhymchuk told Reuters

It will bring us to a point that we do not achieve any of our goals if we don't have proper reporting under the Paris Agreement,

she said

This would indeed be an illegal appropriation of a good belonging to the other state,

she said

Keir StarmeruK Prime Minister

No, we’re not at war, but Ukraine certainly is, because Ukraine has been invaded by Russia, and that war has now been going on for just over 1,000 days,

Starmer reiterated

That’s 1,000 days of aggression from Russia and 1,000 days of sacrifice for Ukraine, and that is why we’ve said consistently that we stand by Ukraine. We cannot allow Putin to win this war,

he added