News • 8 months ago

80 Percent of Global CO2 Emissions Come From Just 57 Companies, Report Shows

www.smithsonianmag.com

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80 Percent of Global CO2 Emissions Come From Just 57 Companies, Report Shows

www.smithsonianmag.com

News • 8 months ago

Many of these companies increased their fossil fuel production after the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016

A new analysis released last week by the international non-profit InfluenceMap reveals an overwhelmingly unequal share of fossil fuel pollution worldwide. From 2016 to 2022, 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions were produced by just 57 companies.

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@DevCatOP
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8•8 months ago
Here you go: https://carbonmajors.org/Entities
- @NegentropicBoy
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  12•8 months ago
  From that website:
  
  276,458 China (Coal) Nation State
  
  135,113 Former Soviet Union Nation State
  
  68,832 Saudi Aramco State-owned Entity
  
  57,898 Chevron Investor-owned Company
  
  55,105 ExxonMobil Investor-owned Company
  
  50,687 Gazprom State-owned Entity
  
  43,112 National Iranian Oil Co. State-owned Entity
  
  … etc
- @[email protected]
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  8 months ago
  It lists Czechoslovakia as a nation state entity. How can we take this list seriously when it contains ridiculous errors like that?
  
  Edit: ok, it lists historical emissions. My bad
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  Thank you!

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