Carbon Bombs

A coal, oil or fossil gas project with a potential to emit over a Gigaton of CO2 is a carbon bomb. There are 425 of them around the world. The Guardian reported about the global picture of the oil & gas carbon bombs (excluding coal), here in May 2022.

Over a third of the carbon bombs are currently being prepared and have not yet started extraction. Defusing them is essential for meeting the Paris Agreement temperature targets.

The four countries with the biggest number of carbon bombs are China, the United States, Russia and Saudi-Arabia.

Further information:

Our article in Energy Policy Journal “Carbon Bombs – Mapping key fossil fuel projects” talks about how “harvest mode” would allow us to fit the existing projects into the Paris carbon budget.

Go through the list of carbon bombs.

Locate them on the map and identify financial supporters at the carbonbombs.org website.

If you would like to help defuse a carbon bomb in your country or globally, we would love to hear from you – please get in touch.