Majority of recent CO2 emissions linked to just 57 producers, report says

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BRUSSELS: The vast majority of planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions since 2016 can be traced to a group of just 57 fossil fuels and cement producers, researchers said on Thursday (Apr 4).

A view shows the Orenburg gas processing plant of Gazprom in the Orenburg Region, Russia, on Sep 1, 2023. BRUSSELS: The vast majority of planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions since 2016 can be traced to a group of just 57 fossil fuels and cement producers, researchers said on Thursday .

The world's top three CO2-emitting companies in the period were state-owned oil firm Saudi Aramco, Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom and state-owned producer Coal India, the report said.The report found most companies had expanded their fossil fuel production since 2015, the year when nearly all countries signed the UN Paris Agreement, committing to take action to curb climate change.

"It can be used in a variety of cases, ranging from legal processes seeking to hold these producers to account for climate damages, or it can be used by academics in quantifying their contributions, or by campaign groups, or even by investors," InfluenceMap Program Manager Daan Van Acker said of the report.

The database was first launched in 2013 by the non-profit research organisation Climate Accountability Institute.

 

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