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Tracer links fossil emissions to harms, shows crop losses

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  • Australian scientists created the Carbon Impacts Tracer to link fossil-fuel emissions to climate harms.
  • The Minderoo Foundation funded the Carbon Impacts Tracer.
  • Australian National University (ANU), the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre and Lethal Humidity Council built the tracer.
  • Modeling HVO mine emissions shows crop loss equal to diets of 276,129 people annually.
  • Elaine Johnson warns firms will resist the tracer because it refutes the ‘drop in the ocean’ defence.