CLIMATE CHANGE AND 90 COMPANIES
Man-Made Climate Change Mostly Due To Just 90 Companies
Suzanne Goldenberg, November 20, 2013 (UK Guardian)
"The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age, new research [which has been accepted for publication in the journal Climactic Change] found that the vast majority of the firms were in the business of producing oil, gas or coal…Half of the estimated emissions were produced just in the past 25 years – well past the date when governments and corporations became aware that rising greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal and oil were causing dangerous climate change…Many of the same companies are also sitting on substantial reserves of fossil fuel which – if they are burned – puts the world at even greater risk of dangerous climate change…Climate change experts said the data set was the most ambitious effort so far to hold individual carbon producers, rather than governments, to account…” click here for more
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