Just what damage can the emissions from a new fossil fuel facility cause? A new tool has estimates
Climate scientists have launched the 'Carbon Impacts Tracer,' a tool designed to estimate the specific environmental and human consequences of individual fossil fuel projects. The tool quantifies impacts such as heat stress, poverty, and glacier loss associated with specific megatonnes of carbon emissions.
Why it matters
This tool provides a granular way to hold fossil fuel projects accountable by visualizing the real-world human and environmental costs of carbon output.
From crop failures to coral bleaching, a new tool developed by climate scientists aims to predict in detail the impacts of each megatonne of carbon emissions
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The emissions from a single coalmine expansion might not seem like a lot when compared with the scale of global emissions, which are measured in gigatonnes (that’s one thousand million tonnes).
However, scientists have been saying for years that every tonne of carbon dioxide adds to global warming, and every fraction of a degree increase matters .
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