Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
www.theguardian.com
Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal

Note that this represents who extracted, rather than who burned. Responsibility for burning fossil fuels is much more broadly distributed.

  • jeffw@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Am I reading this correctly? The headline sounds misleading. 80% of fossil fuel and cement GHGs, which is all the linked database appears to track. It doesn’t touch on other industries or contextualize what portion of total GHGs come from those industries (obviously a lot, but how much?)