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09/06/22 22:50 PM IST

carbon bombs

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  • The usage of the term ‘carbon bombs’ picked up after an investigative project of The Guardian from May this year.
  • The project reported the plans of countries and private companies all over the world to engage in 195 ‘carbon bomb’ projects.
  • Each such project, it is believed, will release huge amounts of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
Carbon Bombs
  • It is “an oil or gas project that will result in at least a billion tonnes of CO2 emissions over its lifetime.”
  • In total, around 195 such projects have been identified world over, including in the US, Russia, West Asia, Australia and India.
  • According to the report, they will collectively overshoot the limit of emissions that had been agreed to in the Paris Agreement of 2015.
LINGO
  • The network working towards this goal is called Leave It In the Ground Initiative (LINGO).
  • Its mission is to “leave fossil fuels in the ground and learn to live without them.”
  • It believes the root of climate change is the burning of fossil fuels, and the 100% use of renewable energy sources is the solution.
  • LINGO aims to organise ground support for protesting such projects, challenge them through litigation, and conduct analysis and studies for the same.
Source- Indian Express 

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