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Carbon bombs

A Guardian investigation into the oil and gas firms planning massive projects that threaten to exacerbate the climate crisis

31 October 2023

  • Climate activists transform the Eiffel Tower in Paris into wind turbine during a protest in June.

    France is Europe’s biggest supporter of ‘carbon bomb’ projects, data shows

  • HSBC and Barclays buildings in Canary Wharf, east London

    Banks pumped more than $150bn in to companies running ‘carbon bomb’ projects in 2022

6 June 2022

  • Pump jacks operate at sunset in an oilfield in Midland, Texas.

    Environmentalists join forces to fight ‘carbon bomb’ fossil fuel projects

    Coalition of lawyers, journalists and campaigners challenge climate-busting mega projects exposed in Guardian investigation

19 May 2022

  • An oil spill in Nigeria.

    ‘Carbon bomb’ makers are putting all our lives at risk

    Letters: Peter Muchlinski, Robert Cooper and Andy Bradley respond to the Guardian’s exposé of big oil’s fossil fuel projects that are a colossal threat to the climate and human life

18 May 2022

  • The cover of the 20 May edition of the Guardian Weekly.

    Carbon bombs: Inside the 20 May Guardian Weekly

  • Carbon bomb illustration

    The ‘carbon bombs’ set to blow up the world’s climate pledges

12 May 2022

  • Saudi Aramco’s natural gas liquids recovery plant in Hawiyah, Saudi Arabia.

    The Guardian view on carbon bombs: governments must say no

  • The International Energy Agency's executive director, Fatih Birol

    Climate chaos certain if oil and gas mega-projects go ahead, warns IEA chief

  • The Guyanese environmentalist Arnette Arjoon alongside fishing boats docked at Liliendaal, Georgetown.

    ‘We can’t eat a new road’: Guyanese voice fears over true cost of Exxon’s oil bonanza

  • 195 major fossil fuel projects will produce 646 gigatons of C02 emissions.

    Thursday briefing: The fossil fuel projects that could blow our carbon budget

11 May 2022

  • Josie Alec, a first Nations advocate in Western Australia, pictured in front of the gas development in the Murujuga area

    ‘Our ancestors are in the rocks’: Australian gas project threatens ancient carvings – and emissions blowout

    Custodians of petroglyphs in remote north-west say Woodside’s $12bn ‘carbon bomb’ spells disaster for culture and climate
  • Oil refinery graphic

    US fracking boom could tip world to edge of climate disaster

    140bn metric tons of planet-heating gases could be unleashed if fossil fuel extraction plans get green light, analysis shows
  • Carbon Bombing

    Revealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown

    Exclusive: Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns
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