Source Attribution Archives - Climate Attribution

The Production Gap: Governments’ planned fossil fuel production remains dangerously out of sync with Paris Agreement limits

Published:October 2021

Author(s):Stockholm Environment Institute, UN Environmental Program, International Institute for Sustainable Development, ODI, E3G

Publisher:Stockholm Environment Institute, UN Environmental Program, International Institute for Sustainable Development, ODI, E3G

This report tracks the discrepancy between governments’ planned fossil fuel production and global levels consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C or 2°C.Read More →

The New Coal: Plastics and Climate Change

Published:October 2021

Author(s):Jim Vallette

Publisher:Beyond Plastics

This report provides a comprehensive account of the United States plastics industry’s contributions to the climate crisis.Read More →

Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gas, and Traffic Externality Benefits and Costs of Shifting Private Vehicle Travel to Ridesourcing Services

Published:September 2021

Author(s):Jacob W. Ward, Jeremy J. Michalek, and Constantine Samaras

Publisher:Environmental Science and Technology

This study finds that replacing private vehicles with on-demand ridesourcing services reduces externalities from conventional air pollution but increases externalities from GHGs.Read More →

Nationally Determined Contributions Under the Paris Agreement: Synthesis Report by the Secretariat

Published:September 2021

Author(s):UNFCCC Secretariat

Publisher:United Nations Climate Change

This report on nationally determined contributions synthesizes information from the 164 latest available nationally determined contributions communicated by the 191 Parties to the Paris Agreement.Read More →

Climate TRACE Releases First Comprehensive, Independent Database of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Published:September 2021

Author(s):Climate TRACE

Publisher:Climate TRACE

Climate TRACE unveiled the world’s first comprehensive accounting of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions based primarily on direct, independent observation.Read More →

Path of Toxic Pollution: How Making “Forever Chemicals” for Food Packaging Threatens People and the Climate

Published:September 2021

Author(s):Erika Schreder and Beth Kemler

Publisher:Toxic-Free Future

This report assesses the greenhouse gas emissions and public health impacts from one food packaging manufacturer.Read More →

Global Electricity Review 6-Month Update: H1-2021

Published:August 2021

Author(s):Dave Jones, Nicolas Fulghum, Peter Tunbridge

Publisher:Ember

This report shows an increase in coal power-driven CO2 emissions as the world rebounds from the impact of the pandemic in 2020.Read More →

Environmental Impacts of the U.S. Health Care System and Effects on Public Health

Published:June 2016

Author(s):Matthew J. Eckelman & Jodi Sherman

Publisher:PLOS One

This study estimates emissions directly and indirectly attributable to the U.S. health care sector and potential harmful effects on public health.Read More →

Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation

Published:June 2021

Author(s):Rupert F. Stuart-Smith, Friederike E. L. Otto, Aisha I. Saad, Gaia Lisi, Petra Minnerop, Kristian Cedervall Lauta, Kristin van Zwieten & Thom Wetzer

Publisher:Nature Climate Change

The evidence submitted and referenced in climate mitigation cases lags considerably behind the state of the art in climate science, impeding causation claims.Read More →

Benchmarking Methane and Other GHG Emissions Of Oil & Natural Gas Production in the United States

Published:June 2021

Author(s):Robert LaCount, Tom Curry, Luke Hellgren, Pye Russell

Publisher:Clean Air Task Force

Data on U.S. oil and gas production are combined to facilitate comparing emissions performance metrics for oil and gas producers. Read More →

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