Climate Trace
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1dI have to say, I'm pretty blown away by the amazing new Climate TRACE tool, launched over the weekend at #COP28 with Al Gore's team. Pretty sure I could spend a week or two straight diving into these datasets - it is truly incredible work and I have never seen anything like it. https://climatetrace.org/ We now have a top-down, independent and multi-source synthesised dataset of the major carbon bombs that exist across the world - my own interest is in the many coal, oil and gas projects along with the massive coal and gas-fired power stations. But this is significant for anyone who's been hunting for a different approach to the patchy voluntary data from companies. Some highlights from their findings: "Since 2015 the largest increases in global emissions have come from electricity production and other energy use in China, electricity production in India, and oil and gas production in the US" "In 2022, the continued post-COVID travel rebound caused aviation emissions to surge, with the total from international flights rising 74% between 2021 and 2022" "Road transportation emissions increased 3.5% in 2022. Despite the increasing availability of electric vehicles, high- and upper-middle income countries were responsible for 68% of that total increase in emissions" My screenshots below: - The fossil fuel extraction sites in Norway, along with our other emissions - Fossil fuel projects in Australia, plus power stations - The UAE's sources, and the 32 MTCO2-e field that dominates the list - Equinor's per-asset emissions! I suggest you go find your own country, filter for your 'favourite' sources of climate damage, and then click 'more details' on the bottom right to get a ranking from worst to less bad. Gavin McCormick WattTime.org
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