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New tool can measure harm from each new fossil fuel project
Original: "We can finally measure the damage each new coal, gas or oil project will do to people and nature" # Nature # Environmen
Scientists have announced a way to quantify the damage that each new coal, gas or oil project would cause to people and nature. The approach is presented as a breakthrough because it allows the health, environmental and climate costs of individual fossil fuel developments to be measured directly rather than estimated in aggregate, potentially informing permitting decisions, environmental assessments and public debates over new extraction projects worldwide.
Why now: Interest in a new scientific method that makes the human and ecological costs of fossil fuel projects measurable at the level of individual projects
Evidence
- "We can finally measure the damage each new coal, gas or oil project will do to people and nature" # Nature # Environment # Climate # ClimateChange https:// phys.org/news/2026-09-coal-gas -oil-people-nature.html · primonatura@mstdn.social · 3
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