We can finally measure the damage each new coal, gas or oil project will do to people and nature

By Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Deputy Director, Engagement and Impact, The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Australian National University
Claudia Stepin, Research Officer, Australian National University
Gillian Moon, Senior Visiting Fellow and Research Lead, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW
Maria Nawaz, Project Lead, Australian Climate Accountability Project at the UNSW Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW
Wesley Morgan, Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW

For decades, we couldn’t trace the link between new fossil fuel projects and their damage to people and planet. But now we can.

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