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Summary
Half of the world’s CO2 emissions in 2023 came from just 36 fossil fuel companies, including Saudi Aramco, ExxonMobil, and Shell, according to a new report.
These firms produced over 20 billion tonnes of CO2, worsening the climate crisis despite global commitments to reduce emissions.
State-owned enterprises, especially in China, also dominate the list.
The findings support legal efforts to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate damage. Experts warn that continued fossil fuel expansion contradicts net-zero goals, as 2023 was the hottest year on record.
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Good to know all the sacrifices people have made to move away from this in day to day lives… only to find that literally 3 dozen companies are doing far more damage than we could ever make up for.
I get it about the energy, so renewable and nuclear should be used more and more and more.
My last comment here would be that we don’t have good energy storage for these off peak times, that we could use to keep the grid stable without having to resort always to burning fossil fuels to make up the slack. There’s a way to have our cake and eat it too, but we really need to make concerted efforts in energy storage. I feel like this has been neglected too much when we discuss renewables and future energy. Energy storage is paramount to this.
There are some great concepts and even new hot stuff, but, nothing widespread 🥲
Global warming is about to destroy a large fraction of the world and it is mostly caused by these CO2 emissions, so, we should absolutely decreased them. This being said whatever the number of companies, would it be 36, 22 or 10 producing fuels, if we didn’t use these fuels, no companies would be producing them in the first place.
Mechanism to decrease CO2 might have to go through lawsuits, whatever. But putting the blame on theses is stupid : it’s just a way to deny our collective responsibility.Thank you !
Provider providing oil to consumer: It’s the fault of the providers !
Provider providing black slaves to white consummers: It’s the fault of consumers !
What an hypocrisy…
i knew that comment would be triggering for some readers, yet, would have hope for more structured arguments.
Entity Total emissions (MtCO2e) CO2 emissions (MtCO2) Percentage of global CO2 emissions Former Soviet Union (1900–1991) 135,113 118,604 6.54% China (Coal, 1945–2004) 104,888 94,242 5.20% Saudi Aramco 70,670 64,432 3.56% Chevron 58,598 51,705 2.85% ExxonMobil 55,667 48,214 2.66% Gazprom 51,823 38,840 2.14% National Iranian Oil Company 44,439 39,086 2.16% BP 42,877 37,843 2.09% Shell 41,092 35,534 1.96% Coal India 30,939 27,799 1.53% Pemex 25,861 22,989 1.27% China (Cement) 24,211 24,211 1.34% Poland (Coal, 1913–2001) 22,695 20,392 1.13% CHN Energy 21,796 19,584 1.08% ConocoPhillips 20,495 17,394 0.96% British Coal Corporation (1947–1994) 19,745 17,741 0.98% CNPC 19,684 17,215 0.95% Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC) 18,089 16,052 0.89% Peabody Energy 18,019 16,190 0.89% TotalEnergies 17,943 15,690 0.87% I presume that’s source https://carbonmajors.org/Entities then you’re showing all time data and if you filter granular data by year and pick only latest 2023 it turns out there are only oil, coal and gas companies in this dataset so I don’t know if article is trustworthy.
I guess that is measuring emissions including all lifetime emissions by the products? Because if the products are fossil fuels of course it would be that high.
The report found that the 36 major fossil fuel companies, including Saudi Aramco, Coal India, ExxonMobil, Shell and numerous Chinese companies, produced coal, oil and gas responsible for more than 20bn tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2023.
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The 36 companies are dominated by state-owned enterprises, of which there are 25. Ten of these are in China, the world’s biggest polluting country. Coal was the source of 41% of the emissions counted in 2023, oil 32%, gas 23% and cement 4%.
Based on the inclusion of coal and gas, it sounds like this was measuring things burned for energy. I can’t imagine they were going for lifetime emissions of all products if coal is the clear leader (is that globally or for China? The sentence structure is ambiguous to me).
