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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNaming Names: The 90 Companies Destroying Our Planet
In a newly compeleted study by Heede and his colleagues at the Climate Accountability Institute, their analysis shows that a mere 90 companies, some private and some state-owned, account for a full two-thirds of all greenhouse gas emissions that are now driving perilous rates of global warming.
Offered in advance to the Guardian newspaper, which created an interactive representation of the study's findings, the report comes as climate negotiators from around the world continue talks in Warsaw, Poland this week in the latest (what looks so far like a failed) attempt to solidify an emissions agreeement designed to stave off the worst impacts of climate change this century.
As the Guardian's Suzanne Goldenberg reports:
Between them, the 90 companies on the list of top emitters produced 63% of the cumulative global emissions of industrial carbon dioxide and methane between 1751 to 2010, amounting to about 914 gigatonne CO2 emissions, according to the research. All but seven of the 90 were energy companies producing oil, gas and coal. The remaining seven were cement manufacturers.
The list of 90 companies included 50 investor-owned firms mainly oil companies with widely recognised names such as Chevron, Exxon, BP , and Royal Dutch Shell and coal producers such as British Coal Corp, Peabody Energy and BHP Billiton.
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Naming Names: The 90 Companies Destroying Our Planet (Original Post)
Triana
Nov 2013
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NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)1. Kicking. Will read later. Thanks. nt.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)2. k+r
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)3. bkming
ancianita
(36,167 posts)4. Accountability. Wonder what form it will take, if any.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)5. We, the consumers of it all, share in the blame
From the Cheetos eating, basement dwelling troll, to the natives cooking on the campfire, we are all consumers of energy.