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От: Vanya Walker-Leigh via CAN-Comms <can-comms at climateaction.network>
Date: чт, 9 мая 2019 г. в 14:12
Subject: [CAN Comms] Map naming CEOs of 100 companies producing 71% world 
GHG emissions


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Are these 100 people killing the planet?
Controversial map names CEOs of 100 companies producing 71 percent of the 
world's greenhouse gas emissions.

FRANK JACOBS
06 May, 2019a.. Just 100 companies produce 71 percent of the world's 
greenhouse gases.
  b.. This map lists their names and locations, and their CEOs.
  c.. The climate crisis may be too complex for these 100 people to solve, 
but naming and shaming them is a good start.
Houston, we have a problem...

North American companies (and their CEOs) most responsible for the emission 
of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Note the concentration of culprits in 
Houston. Image source: Jordan Engel, reused via Decolonial Media License 0.1

Do you carry your shopping home in a reusable bag? Close the tap while you 
brush your teeth? Well done! But saving the planet will require a more 
systemic approach.

A new UN-sponsored report (1,500 pages in full — consider the environment 
before printing!) details how the accelerating decline of biodiversity is 
threatening humanity's very survival.

It's not the first report of its kind, and despite their increasingly 
alarmist tones, unlikely to be the last.

What to do?

Between the relative futility of individual do-goodery and the seemingly 
unstoppable forces degrading earth's ecosystems lies a whole world of 
despair, paralysis, and tuned-out apathy.

But if those forces seem unstoppable, it's perhaps because they appear to be 
nameless and faceless. As this map points out, they aren't. The harm that's 
being done to the planet can be pinpointed, to a very specific list of 
companies. And those companies have CEOs that can be named and shamed.


The west vs. the rest

The bigger the country, the bigger its share of CO2 emissions since the 
start of the Industrial Revolution. Image source: Jordan Engel, reused via 
Decolonial Media License 0.1

This map shows the 100 companies responsible for the biggest share of the 
world's greenhouse gas emissions, and their CEOs. Countries are inflated to 
represent their share of CO2 emissions since the beginning of 
industrialisation.

If we want to make a serious dent in the amount of CO2 and other greenhouse 
gases we're emitting, this map suggests, it's these companies — and more 
specifically, these CEOs — we need to hold to account. Naming and shaming 
them is a first step.

The basis for this map is the Carbon Majors report from 2017 by CDP 
(formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), listing the top 100 fossil fuel 
producers in the world, responsible for 71 percent of all greenhouse gas 
emissions since 1988.

In fact, more than 50 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions since 1988 can 
be traced to just the top 25 entities on that list.

Those are, in descending order: China (state coal production), Aramco, 
Gazprom, National Iranian Oil, ExxonMobil, Coal India, Pemex, Russia (state 
coal production), Shell, China National Petroleum, BP, Chevron, PDVSA, Abu 
Dhabi National Oil, Poland Coal, Peabody Energy, Sonatrach, Kuwait 
Petroleum, Total, BHP Billiton, ConocoPhilips, Petrobras, Lukoil, RioTinto, 
Nigerian National Petroleum.


The rogue's gallery of Europe

Even oil companies are now turning to invest in sustainable energy — but is 
it just window dressing? Image source: Jordan Engel, reused via Decolonial 
Media License 0.1

If fossil-fuel extraction over the next quarter century continues at the 
same rate as the previous 25 years, the Carbon Majors report claims we're on 
course for a 4°C rise in average temperatures by the end of this century — 
accelerating the loss of biodiversity and the rise of food insecurity, to 
name but two consequences.

Granted, even oil companies are aware that the wind is blowing from a 
different direction now and have initiated programmes to produce energy in a 
more sustainable way. But in many cases, the discrepancy between the size of 
those programmes and the attention they are given in corporate PR makes them 
little more than window dressing.


Jakarta beats Beijing as emissions capital

Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is the wider region's capital of 
greenhouse gas-emitting companies. Image source: Jordan Engel, reused via 
Decolonial Media License 0.1

This overview refocuses the attention on the main issue — the emission of 
CO2 and other greenhouse gases. And by naming each company's CEO, the issue 
is personalized.

That personalization should come with a few caveats.

First, these corporations thrive only because consumers buy their product — 
although it must be said that demand for energy is fairly inelastic: most 
people can't do without fuel to get from A to B, or to heat their homes.

Second, in all fairness: the true captains of industry are not the CEOs, but 
the majority shareholders. It's those shareholders' priorities — profit only 
or planet also — that drive corporate decision-making.

Those shareholders include large institutional investors, but also national 
governments. Up to 20 percent of investment in hydrocarbon extraction is 
done by public funding — i.e. us.


Clean Africa, dirty Middle East

Africa counts relatively little CO2 culprits, while the tally is much higher 
in the Middle East (as could have been expected). Image source: Jordan 
Engel, reused via Decolonial Media License 0.1

On the other hand, we're running into the same problem mentioned above 
again. Big institutions, even if they include you and me, are 
nameless/faceless. These CEOs are picked to run and represent their 
companies. Perhaps they should get used to a new job: being the lightning 
rod for our growing concern about global warming.

The Decolonial Atlas, which published this map, quotes U.S. folk artist and 
labor organizer Utah Phillips: "The earth is not dying, it is being killed, 
and those who are killing it have names and addresses."


On that list is your name and address, and mine; because we could all do a 
lot more. But not nearly as much as these 100 people. Let this map be an 
invitation to acquaint ourselves with their intentions, good or otherwise.



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