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Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5 °C

May 2022
Kelly Trout, Greg Muttitt, Dimitri Lafleur, Thijs Van de Graaf, Roman Mendelevitch, Lan Mei, and Malte Meinshausen
Environmental Research Letters
This study conducts the first bottom-up assessment of committed CO2 emissions from fossil fuel-producing infrastructure, defined as existing and under-construction oil and gas fields and coal mines.Read More →

Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change

April 2022
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions.Read More →

Environmental outcomes of the US Renewable Fuel Standard

March 2022
Tyler J. Lark, Nathan P. Hendricks, Aaron Smith, Nicholas Pates, Seth A. Spawn-Lee, Matthew Bougie, Eric G. Booth, Christopher J. Kucharik, and Holly K. Gibbs
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
This article suggests that the carbon intensity of corn ethanol produced under the US Renewable Fuel Standard is no less than gasoline and likely at least 24% higher.Read More →

Bigger than Oil or Gas? Sizing Up Coal Mine Methane

March 2022
Ryan Driskell Tate
Global Energy Monitor
This report finds that coal mining emits 52.3 million tonnes of methane per year, rivaling oil (39 million tonnes) and gas (45 million tonnes), and comparable to the climate impact of the CO2 emissions of all coal plants in China.Read More →

Global assessment of oil and gas methane ultra-emitters

February 2022
Thomas Lauvaux, Clément Giron, Matthieu Mazzolini, Alexandre d'Aspremont, Riley Duren, Dan Cusworth, Drew Shindell, Philippe Ciais
Science
This study finds that ultra-emitters constituted 8 to 12% (~8 million metric tons of methane per year) of the global oil and gas production methane emissions.Read More →

Global Methane Tracker 2022

February 2022
International Energy Agency
International Energy Agency
The 2022 update of the IEA Global Methane Tracker provides a complete set of country-level estimates for methane emissions from the energy sector.Read More →