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UPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS | CARBON BOMBS | 09TH JUNE | INDIAN EXPRESS

/ June, 2022, UPSC Daily Current Affairs

SYLLABUS SECTION:

WHY IN THE NEWS?

A group of environmentalists, lawyers, and activists have come together to identify and defuse Carbon Bombs

They defuse Coal, oil, and gas projects that have the potential to contribute significantly to global warming.

WHAT ARE CARBON BOMBS?

  • The usage of the term ‘carbon bombs’ was pick up after an investigative project by The Guardian in May 2022.
  • The Guardian said that it is an oil or gas project.
  • That will result in at least a billion tonnes of CO2 emissions over its lifetime.
  • Whenever coal, oil, or gas is extract it results in pollution and environmental degradation.
  • Further, carbon emissions take place in particularly large amounts when fuel is burning.
  • In total, around 195 such projects have been identifying the 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 agree to in the Paris Agreement of 2015.
  • Apart from coal, oil, and gas operations, the report highlighted the threat of methane, which “routinely leaks from gas operations and is a powerful greenhouse gas, trapping 86 times more heat than CO2 over 20 years”.

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND INITIATIVE (LINGO):

  • The network working towards this goal of ‘defusing’ carbon bombs is called the 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 organize ground support for protesting such projects, challenge them through litigation, and conduct analysis and studies for the same.

Source: Indian Express