How will emissions from new coalmine expansions affect us?
Climate scientists have released a new tool showing how much actual harm emissions from new fossil-fuel projects could cause.
This one square (plants not to scale) represents enough crops to feed 2,500 people annually...
...which makes this enough to feed around 500,000 people a year
A coalmine extension just approved in Australia’s Hunter Valley (HVO) is forecast to be responsible for 809m tonnes of carbon dioxide over the next 20 years.
According to the Carbon Impact Tracer, these emissions will have a global impact, and result in the loss of food production equivalent to the amount required to feed 273,000 people a year
This analysis is based on peer-reviewed research which estimates the impact of global heating on the production of six staple crops.
These emissions will also affect our coral reefs.
This one square (coral not to scale) represents 200,000 coral colonies
...which makes this reef equal to 20 million colonies
More emissions means more global heating, and more thermal stress for corals.
The Carbon Impact Tracer estimates 14.7 million additional coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef will die per bleaching event
While this is a small percentage of the reef overall (~0.006% of coral cover) it still represents millions of organisms which would not have otherwise died.
More global heating also means heatwaves will be more frequent, intense, and longer lasting. This means more people will be affected by heat stress.
This one square (crowd not to scale) represents 2,500 people...
...which makes this crowd equal to 200,000 people
The same emissions from the coal mine extension will likely result in 99,400 additional people experiencing one week or more of dangerous heat
Sources: Hunter Valley Operations, carbonimpactstracer.com
How will emissions from new coalmine expansions affect us?
Climate scientists have released a new tool showing how much actual harm emissions from new fossil-fuel projects could cause.
This one square (plants not to scale) represents enough crops to feed 2,500 people annually...
...which makes this enough to feed around 500,000 people a year
A coalmine extension just approved in Australia’s Hunter Valley (HVO) is forecast to be responsible for 809m tonnes of carbon dioxide over the next 20 years.
According to the Carbon Impact Tracer, these emissions will have a global impact, and result in the loss of food production equivalent to the amount required to feed 273,000 people a year
This analysis is based on peer-reviewed research which estimates the impact of global heating on the production of six staple crops.
These emissions will also affect our coral reefs.
This one square (coral not to scale) represents 200,000 coral colonies...
...which makes this reef equal to 20 million colonies
More emissions means more global heating, and more thermal stress for corals.
The Carbon Impact Tracer estimates 14.7 million additional coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef will die per bleaching event
While this is a small percentage of the reef overall (~0.006% of coral cover) it still represents millions of organisms which would not have otherwise died.
More global heating also means heatwaves will be more frequent, intense, and longer lasting. This means more people will be affected by heat stress.
This one square (crowd not to scale) represents 2,500 people...
...which makes this crowd equal to 200,000 people
The same emissions from the coalmine extension will likely result in 99,400 additional people experiencing one week or more of dangerous heat
Sources: Hunter Valley Operations, carbonimpactstracer.com
How will emissions from new coalmine expansions affect us?
Climate scientists have released a new tool showing how much actual harm emissions from new fossil-fuel projects could cause.
This one square (plants not to scale) represents enough crops to feed 2,500 people annually...
...which makes this enough to feed around 500,000 people a year
A coalmine extension just approved in Australia’s Hunter Valley (HVO) is forecast to be responsible for 809m tonnes of carbon dioxide over the next 20 years.
According to the Carbon Impact Tracer, these emissions will have a global impact, and result in the loss of food production equivalent to the amount required to feed 273,000 people a year
This analysis is based on peer-reviewed research which estimates the impact of global heating on the production of six staple crops.
These emissions will also affect our coral reefs.
This one square (coral not to scale) represents 200,000 coral colonies...
...which makes this reef equal to 20 million colonies
More emissions means more global heating, and more thermal stress for corals.
The Carbon Impact Tracer estimates 14.7 million additional coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef will die per bleaching event
While this is a small percentage of the reef overall (~0.006% of coral cover) it still represents millions of organisms which would not have otherwise died.
More global heating also means heatwaves will be more frequent, intense, and longer lasting. This means more people will be affected by heat stress.
This one square (crowd not to scale) represents 2,500 people...
...which makes this crowd equal to 200,000 people
The same emissions from the coalmine extension will likely result in 99,400 additional people experiencing one week or more of dangerous heat
Sources: Hunter Valley Operations, carbonimpactstracer.com
How will emissions from new coalmine expansions affect us?
Climate scientists have released a new tool showing how much actual harm emissions from new fossil-fuel projects could cause.
This one square (plants not to scale) represents enough crops to feed 2,500 people annually...
...which makes this enough to feed around 500,000 people a year
A coalmine extension just approved in Australia’s Hunter Valley (HVO) is forecast to be responsible for 809m tonnes of carbon dioxide over the next 20 years.
According to the Carbon Impact Tracer, these emissions will have a global impact, and result in the loss of food production equivalent to the amount required to feed 273,000 people a year
This analysis is based on peer-reviewed research which estimates the impact of global heating on the production of six staple crops.
These emissions will also affect our coral reefs.
This one square (coral not to scale) represents 200,000 coral colonies...
...which makes this reef equal to 20 million colonies
More emissions means more global heating, and more thermal stress for corals.
The Carbon Impact Tracer estimates 14.7 million additional coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef will die per bleaching event
While this is a small percentage of the reef overall (~0.006% of coral cover) it still represents millions of organisms which would not have otherwise died.
More global heating also means heatwaves will be more frequent, intense, and longer lasting. This means more people will be affected by heat stress.
This one square (crowd not to scale) represents 2,500 people...
...which makes this crowd equal to 200,000 people
The same emissions from the coalmine extension will likely result in 99,400 additional people experiencing one week or more of dangerous heat
Sources: Hunter Valley Operations, carbonimpactstracer.com