With respect to the LINGO (Leave It In the Ground Initiative), consider the following statements:

It is launched by United Nations Environment Programme.

It aims to leave fossil fuels in the ground and learn to live without them.

It aims to organize ground support for protesting carbon bomb projects.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Carbon bomb is “an oil or gas project that will result in at least a billion tonnes of CO2 emissions over its lifetime.”
In total, around 195 such projects have been identified world over, including in the US, Russia, West Asia, Australia and India.
The network working towards defusing carbon bomb is called Leave It In the Ground Initiative (LINGO).
Its mission is to “leave fossil fuels in the ground and learn to live without them.”
It believes the root of climate change is the burning of fossil fuels, and the 100% use of renewable energy sources is the solution.
It has listed carbon bomb projects from all over the world. This includes the Carmichael Coal Project owned by the Adani Group, Gevra Coal Mines in Chhattisgarh owned by Coal India, and Rajmahal Coal Mines in eastern Jharkhand owned by Eastern Coalfields.
LINGO aims to organise ground support for protesting such projects, challenge them through litigation, and conduct analysis and studies for the same.

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Carbon bomb is “an oil or gas project that will result in at least a billion tonnes of CO2 emissions over its lifetime.”
In total, around 195 such projects have been identified world over, including in the US, Russia, West Asia, Australia and India.
The network working towards defusing carbon bomb is called Leave It In the Ground Initiative (LINGO).
Its mission is to “leave fossil fuels in the ground and learn to live without them.”
It believes the root of climate change is the burning of fossil fuels, and the 100% use of renewable energy sources is the solution.
It has listed carbon bomb projects from all over the world. This includes the Carmichael Coal Project owned by the Adani Group, Gevra Coal Mines in Chhattisgarh owned by Coal India, and Rajmahal Coal Mines in eastern Jharkhand owned by Eastern Coalfields.
LINGO aims to organise ground support for protesting such projects, challenge them through litigation, and conduct analysis and studies for the same.

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