{"id":192653,"date":"2022-06-27T20:22:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=192653"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T04:54:06","slug":"explained-what-are-carbon-bombs-why-environmentalists-want-them-defused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-are-carbon-bombs-why-environmentalists-want-them-defused\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What are \u2018carbon bombs\u2019, why environmentalists want them defused?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A group of environmentalists, lawyers and activists have come together to identify and \u2018defuse carbon bombs\u2019 that have the potential to contribute significantly to global warming.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are Carbon Bombs?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is \u201can oil or gas project that will result in at least a billion tonnes of CO2 emissions over its lifetime.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In total, around 195 such projects have been identified the world over, including in the US, Russia, West Asia, Australia and India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They will collectively overshoot the limit of emissions that had been agreed to in the Paris Agreement of 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the plan for defusing Carbon Bombs?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The network working towards this goal is called <\/span><b>Leave It In the Ground Initiative (LINGO<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The network has listed carbon bomb projects from all over the world. This includes the Carmichael Coal Project owned by the Adani Group, Gevra Coal Mines in Chhattisgarh owned by Coal India, and Rajmahal Coal Mines in eastern Jharkhand owned by Eastern Coalfields.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cExplained: What are \u2018carbon bombs\u2019, why environmentalists want them defused?\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 8th June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? A group of environmentalists, lawyers and activists have come together to identify and \u2018defuse carbon bombs\u2019 that have the potential to contribute significantly to global warming. What are Carbon Bombs? It is \u201can oil or gas project that will result in at least a billion tonnes of CO2 emissions over its&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-are-carbon-bombs-why-environmentalists-want-them-defused\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What are \u2018carbon bombs\u2019, why environmentalists want them defused?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-192653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704902449},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}