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Webinar: The Environmental Cost of War — Accounting for Conflict's Hidden Emissions
Event Date:
June 4, 2026
The Environmental Cost of War: Accounting for Conflict's Hidden Emissions
Thursday, June 4
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
Virtual
Conflict & Climate
Military activity and its vast supply chains are estimated to account for approximately 5.5% of global peacetime greenhouse gas emissions, yet this significant carbon footprint remains largely excluded from climate frameworks and reporting standards — both in Canada and internationally.
Join us for a live webinar during Toronto Climate Week in partnership with the University of Toronto's MSc in Sustainability Management program.
Together, we'll examine how military emissions are excluded from global accounting, what that means for Canada's climate commitments, and what it would take to change it.
Open to climate advocates, policy professionals, researchers, students, and anyone who believes the full cost of war belongs in the climate conversation.
Featured Speaker: Ali Borhani
Following his TEDx Talk, selected as an Editor's Pick, Ali Borhani FRSA explores how the significant carbon footprint of global conflict has remained absent from climate policy. Ali makes the case for bringing military emissions into the global climate conversation and why we need a GC3P (Global Conflict Carbon Compass and Pricing) to finally measure, disclose, and mitigate this overlooked source of climate impact.
Canadian Policy Expert: Tamara Lorincz
Tamara Lorincz is one of Canada's leading voices on military emissions as an environmental lawyer and researcher who has spent over 20 years making the case that defence spending has a carbon cost that no one is counting.
About the Host:
This event is organized by Randa Ali and Rija Ansari, Toronto climate professionals and University of Toronto Alumni.
Randa Ali is a community engagement and communications professional, with a Master of Science in Sustainability Management from the University of Toronto. Her work focusses on how intersections between people, planet, and profit shape politics, culture, and communities.
Rija Ansari is a chemist and data scientist dedicated to developing innovative solutions to climate change. She is currently completing a Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Rija's research career is rooted in clean energy and environmental science, with projects in sodium-ion batteries, hydrometallurgical battery recycling and carbon capture.
Ali Borhani is a geopolitical strategist and managing director of 3Sixty Strategic Advisors Ltd, a boutique advisory firm specializing in growth and market entry strategies in emerging markets and the author of Futurearly on Substack.
Tamara Lorincz is an environmental lawyer and researcher whose PhD dissertation at the Balsillie School of International Affairs examined military emissions, the national security exemption, and NATO expansion in climate governance. With over 20 years working on the climate impacts of the military, her writing has appeared in Rabble, Ricochet Media, and Canadian Dimension.
