Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows | Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows | Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis
www.theguardian.com Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis
Because this is a common misunderstanding, they're talking about scope 3 emissions:
These are Scope 3 Category 11 emissions
That means it includes fuels these firms extract and sell to be burned by others, with much of the "demand" for it being induced by the fossil fuel firms, who explicitly have a cartel which drops prices whenever people start to move away from fossil fuels.
