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Source Attribution

This category encompasses research aimed at identifying the relative contribution of different sectors, activities, and entities to global climate change. It includes research on the respective contributions of national governments and private corporations to increases in global greenhouse gas concentrations (through both emissions and land use changes). It also includes research on the respective obligations of different entities to mitigate their contributions to climate change.

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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 →

Escalating carbon emissions from North American boreal forest wildfires and the climate mitigation potential of fire management

April 2022
Carly A. Phillips, Brendan M. Rogers, Molly Elder, Sol Cooperdock, Michael Moubarak, James T. Randerson, Peter C. Frumhoff
ScienceAdvances
This study shows that wildfires in boreal North America could, by mid-century, contribute to a cumulative net source of nearly 12 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide.Read More →

Methane emissions from US low production oil and natural gas well sites

April 2022
Mark Omara, Daniel Zavala-Araiza, David R. Lyon, Benjamin Hmiel, Katherine A. Roberts & Steven P. Hamburg
Nature Communications
This study finds that low production oil and gas well sites are a disproportionately large source of US oil and gas well site methane emissions.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 →

Quantifying Regional Methane Emissions in the New Mexico Permian Basin with a Comprehensive Aerial Survey

March 2022
Yuanlei Chen, Evan D. Sherwin, Elena S.F. Berman, Brian B. Jones, Matthew P. Gordon, Erin B. Wetherley, Eric A. Kort, and Adam R. Brandt
Environmental Science and Technology
This study employs a comprehensive aerial survey to estimate the regional methane emissions in the New Mexico Permian Basin.Read More →

Emissions from fossil fuels produced on US federal lands and waters present opportunities for climate mitigation

March 2022
Nathan Ratledge, Laura Zachary & Chase Huntley
Climatic Change
This study estimates that the extraction, transportation and combustion of fossil fuels from federal lands and waters resulted in emissions equivalent to roughly 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year from 2005 to 2019.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 →

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