New Delhi, Sept. 28 -- As the United Nations General Assembly 2026 wraps up, the United Nations continues to disappoint with how ineffectual it has become at stopping wars-a contributor to climate change. Wartime greenhouse-gas emissions originate from military vehicles, fires, and the production, transport and launch of weapons. They also come from destroying infrastructure with embedded carbon. Forests, wetlands and other carbon sinks are weakened, if not destroyed. Take the case of Russia and Ukraine. According to the Ukraine-supported Initiative on GHG Accounting of War, estimates as of a year and a half ago put emissions at over 230 million tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent released due to the war. Today, multiple wars run in parallel. We know the ongoing devastation in Gaza will have very strong planetary repercussions. Hostilities in West Asia, along with the participation of the Houthis, and the endless civil war in Sudan are just some more. In each case, weapons, vehicles and the pummeling of nature contribute to everyone's destruction, near or far from the wars and their locations. The UN was launched in 1945, with a key mandate to prevent wars. If it stayed focused on resolving wars and hostilities today, the UN would also be able to deliver better on the climate front. Just the UNFCCC alone isn't enough....