Carbon Bombs ।।

● It is “an oil or gas project that will result in at least a billion tonnes of CO2 emissions over its lifetime.” as per Definition given by the Guardian

● Group of environmentalists, lawyers, and activists have come together to identify and ‘defuse this carbon bombs

● Around 195 such projects have been identified world over, including in the US, Russia, West Asia, Australia and India.

Leave It In the Ground Initiative (LINGO)

● Network working towards this goal of ‘defusing’ carbon bombs 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.”

● LINGO aims to organise ground support for protesting against coal projects, challenge them through litigation, and conduct analysis and studies for the same