BJP7images/Getty September 28, 2026 We can finally measure the damage each new coal, gas or oil project will do to people and nature Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Australian National University; Claudia Stepin, Australian National University; Gillian Moon, UNSW ; Maria Nawaz, UNSW , and Wesley Morgan, 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.