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Half the world's carbon emissions come from just 36 fossil fuel companies. We know that carbon emissions are warming our planet, and causing catastrophic damage. And fossil fuel companies have known that for decades. But instead they engaged in climate denial, and now do all they can to delay climate action -- through regressive lobbying, greenwashing, disinformation, false solutions and more. Not only that: they continue to invest in more fossil fuels, even though renewables are cheap, efficient, and deployable at scale. Future generations will be mystified: how could it be that a small minority of companies and people got so rich at the expense of planet and people? I am mystified too. But we at ClientEarth, and many others (including the brilliant InfluenceMap who are behind this report) are doing all we can to disrupt this devastating business model.

??Half of all global fossil CO2 emissions in 2023 can be linked to just 36 companies?? As the few continue to profit from expanded fossil fuel extraction by this handful of companies, millions are already suffering the consequences every day, hit by the climate disasters that inevitably follow our ongoing fossil fuel use, already all too familiar in our news feeds. This affects all of us. The Carbon Majors are keeping the world hooked on fossil fuels with no plans to slow production. While states drag their heels on their Paris Agreement commitments, state owned companies are dominating global emissions?—ignoring the desperate needs of their citizens. The science is clear: we cannot move backwards to more fossil fuels and more extraction. Instead, we must move forward to the infinite possibilities of a decarbonized economic system that works for people and the planet. As Johan Rockstr?m says, a global turmnaround is essential -and it must start with these key players. Read the full Carbon Majors report from InfluenceMap: https://lnkd.in/dS2Ynxby

?? ?? ?? Did you know? Half of global fossil CO2 emissions in 2023 were linked to just 36 companies. Today InfluenceMap released its annual update to the #CarbonMajors database. This database is the first and only provider of a comprehensive view of corporate fossil fuel producers’ contributions to greenhouse gas emissions and is used across the world in attribution research, and legal and regulatory action, to hold these companies to account for their role in climate change. Key findings: ?? Half of global fossil CO2 emissions in 2023 can be linked to just 36 companies ?? 93 of the companies in the Carbon Majors database increased their emissions in 2023, including 50 investor-owned companies ?? State-owned companies dominated global emissions in 2023 - 16 of the top 20 emitters are state-owned, and overall state-owned emitters contributed 52% of global emissions in 2023 ?? Cement companies saw the largest relative rise among the four commodity types, highlighting the urgent conversations that need to be had around the decarbonization of heavy industry. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/dGYiZRJD Read the coverage: ?? English https://lnkd.in/dHNik-9S ?? Spanish https://lnkd.in/dcQ7xkyk ?? French https://lnkd.in/gYZ6Z8Yg Daan Van Acker Dylan Tanner Emmett Connaire Caroline Heneghan Kitty Hatchley Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative Tzeporah Berman Kumi Naidoo PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Johan Rockstr?m Christiana Figueres Outrage + Optimism

?? ? Complete Building Electrification is a route towards making the built environment more efficient, cleaner, smarter and better on health / climate.?And it’s good for building owners, tenants and construction / engineering companies. ? Overall a huge plus for the economy and sustainability.?Policy makers globally realise this and are acting to create a regulatory pathway for Building Electrification investment by the private sector. ?? The barrier: strategic and global lobbying by the fossil gas industry which stands to lose out if buildings go 100% electric. ? InfluenceMap tracked a global strategy by the fossil fuel sector to delay Building Electrification policy and its implementation in the EU, the US and Australia. ??? This should be of vital interest to all actors in the building value chain from large scale tenants (banks, professional service firms) to equipment makers, all of whom need a regulatory framework to realise climate plans / low carbon businesses. Great research / reporting / comms from Team InfluenceMap: Vivek Parekh Emilia P. Ed Collins Sofia Shehana Basheer Georgia Oddie Kitty Hatchley Faye Holder ?? We will be communicating the results in a series of regionally focused webinars aimed at facilitating science aligned policy engagement on Building Electrification, featuring corporate leaders - ping me for more details! Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/eCsuV-Dp Media coverage here: https://lnkd.in/eiUASAth Our seminal (and still relevant) report on the global gas industry’s climate-policy opposing playbook is here: https://lnkd.in/e56w4-xX

?? ?? ?New from InfluenceMap: The Global Campaign Against Building Electrification Our new analysis reveals coordinated efforts across Australia, the EU, and the US to delay the phase out of gas in home cooking and heating. ?? We find that across the world, industry actors use a common playbook of tactics to prolong the role of fossil gas in the buildings sector—including: ??Meeting with policymakers ??Engaging with policy proposals ??Social media campaigns ??Legal challenges ??Public statements. ?? Alongside this common playbook, oil and gas, and utility companies (and their industry associations) are found to be strategically employing geographically nuanced, misleading narratives to prevent policy action. ?? This is despite the guidance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and International Energy Agency (IEA), which identify electrification as the “dominant strategy” for decarbonizing buildings, and find it to be essential to meeting global climate objectives. ?? It also flies in the face of public health research, which repeatedly find that residential gas stoves are linked to significant concentrations of various harmful pollutants and are responsible for both childhood asthma and premature deaths. ? Although positive corporate voices are emerging in support of electrification, they are currently no match for the well-resourced, vested interest opposition. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/e2JCTh8c Read the coverage in Grist (https://lnkd.in/e3yeKXeQ) and RenewEconomy (https://lnkd.in/eDD7EJYj) Vivek Parekh Emilia P. Ed Collins Sofia Shehana Basheer Georgia Oddie Kitty Hatchley Dylan Tanner Shweta Narayan Gaurab Basu Kate Wylie Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA)

?? ?? We’ve just published our latest Transport Bulletin, looking at trends in corporate advocacy from the automotive and aviation sectors: ? Overall, our research shows that many auto, trucking & aviation companies continue to actively advocate to weaken or oppose policies aimed at reducing GHG emissions. Recent developments include: ?? In the UK, automakers are targeting the Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandate - calling for changes that would weaken the rule's climate benefits - however other companies that are already committed to electric vehicles continue to publicly voice their support. ?? Airlines have aggressively opposed Dublin Airport's flight cap—the latest in a trend of aviation industry opposition to flight caps in other regions. ?? In the US, major auto manufacturers are showing little resistance as the Trump administration rolls back transport regulations. ?? In the EU, industry appears to be divided over the Greening Corporate Fleets Initiative. With some groups supporting mandatory Zero-Emission Vehicle targets, but others opposing mandates and advocating for a longer-term role for ICE vehicles. Read the bulletin in full here: https://lnkd.in/eNMbjJh8 Sign up for the next one ?? straight to your inbox: https://lnkd.in/d4x6_pDE Lucca Ewbank Leo Menninger Ben Youriev Ed Collins Béatrice des Boscs

?? On Monday, the triennial meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) environment committee presents an opportunity for international aviation to take concrete steps towards science-aligned policies. However, our research finds that opaque proceedings and disproportionate industry presence at ICAO's previous climate meetings has allowed vested interests to influence the development of climate policies for international aviation without public scrutiny. In fact, CORSIA - the main policy ICAO has developed to regulate aviation's soaring emissions - only aligns the sector with an over-4-degrees warming pathway. With very little publicly known about Monday’s climate negotiations, it appears that such transparency issues are likely to continue to impact the speed of positive policymaking on climate within the sector. Read our analysis in The Guardian -?https://lnkd.in/eJ979ThY Lucca Ewbank Ben Youriev Béatrice des Boscs Ed Collins Damian Carrington

Last month at #Davos, against the backdrop of President Trump directing the Department of Energy to resume reviewing applications for new LNG, our Program Manager for Fossil Fuels Vivek Parekh presented evidence of the oil and gas industry’s relentless advocacy to achieve this outcome (read more here: https://lnkd.in/gvAkgree). The oil and gas industry uses nuanced narratives to convince the public and policymakers of the benefits of LNG. InfluenceMap fact checks these in our latest data sheet—an important resource for countering and rebuking industry claims ?? https://lnkd.in/eKZe-EFX

InfluenceMap is pleased to announce a partnership with The Generation Foundation in support of our work on nature lobbying. Policy is not on track to meet 2030 sustainability goals. If all current climate policy commitments were to be achieved (which is unlikely), we will still see a global average temperature rise of 2.7°C above pre-industrial levels (https://lnkd.in/eeYDwufn). The same can be said for nature-related policy. Many companies have set deforestation or biodiversity targets, however, these commitments often have policy dependencies that are not currently being met. Further, some of the world’s biggest companies are still lobbying to disrupt policy to protect preserve nature and biodiversity (https://lnkd.in/edJw8QxB). This partnership will help expand our data on companies’ advocacy on science-aligned policy designed to protect and preserve nature and biodiversity. Alison Paton—Director, The Generation Foundation said: “Investors have a unique opportunity to use their powers of asset allocation, stewardship and policy advocacy together to help manage systemic risks, like biodiversity loss, and to advocate for strong science-aligned policy – both through the companies they are invested in, and directly in engagement with policymakers. To do this, investors need good data on how their portfolio companies engage in nature-related policy. We are thrilled to be supporting InfluenceMap, the leading provider of decision-useful data on corporate lobbying.”