Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows

i knew that comment would be triggering for some readers, yet, would have hope for more structured arguments.

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 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.

>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).

Global warming is about to destroy a large fraction of the world and it is mostly caused by these CO~2~ 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 CO~2~ 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.

| 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 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.

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 🥲