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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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Oily Politics: A Critical Assessment of the Oil and Gas Industry’s Contribution to Climate Change

April 2019
Marco Grasso
Energy Research & Social Science
The article investigates the role the oil and gas industry has played in climate change.Read More →

Attaching a Price to Greenhouse Gas Emissions with a Carbon Tax or Emissions Fee: Considerations and Potential Impacts

March 2019
Jonathan L. Ramseur, Jane A. Leggett
Congressional Research Service
This article focuses on the policy considerations and potential impacts of using a carbon tax or greenhouse gas emissions fee to control greenhouse gas emissions.Read More →

Attributable Damage Liability in a Non-Linear Climate

February 2019
Luke J. Harrington, and Friederike EL Otto
Climatic Change
Emerging trends in different categories of climate change litigation suggest that the role of science will will only become more important in the future.Read More →

2019 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction

January 2019
IEA, GlobalABC, UNEP
UNEP
This report provides an overview of the global buildings and construction sector. It discusses the trends in energy demand, the role of policy, technological advancements, and investment in shaping a sustainable future for the sector.Read More →

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

January 2019
Prof Walter Willett, MD Prof Johan Rockström, PhD Brent Loken, PhD Marco Springmann, PhD Prof Tim Lang, PhD Sonja Vermeulen, PhD Tara Garnett, PhD David Tilman, PhD Fabrice DeClerck, PhD Amanda Wood, PhD Malin Jonell, PhD Michael Clark, PhD Line J Gordon, PhD Jessica Fanzo, PhD Prof Corinna Hawkes, PhD Rami Zurayk, PhD Juan A Rivera, PhD Prof Wim De Vries, PhD Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, PhD Ashkan Afshin, MD Abhishek Chaudhary, PhD Mario Herrero, PhD Rina Agustina, MD Francesco Branca, MD Anna Lartey, PhD Shenggen Fan, PhD Beatrice Crona, PhD Elizabeth Fox, PhD Victoria Bignet, MSc Max Troell, PhD Therese Lindahl, PhD Sudhvir Singh, MBChB Sarah E Cornell, PhD Prof K Srinath Reddy, DM Sunita Narain, PhD Sania Nishtar, MD Prof Christopher J L Murray, MD
The Lancet
The EAT Lancet quantitatively describe a universal healthy reference diet to provide a basis for estimating the health and environmental effects of adopting an alternative diet to standard current diets, many of which are high in unhealthy foods. Read More →

The role of aerosols and greenhouse gases in Sahel drought and recovery

December 2018
Alessandra Giannini and Alexey Kaplan
Climatic Change/Springer
This is only one of a variety of peer-reviewed articles that expand on the role of aerosols and greenhouse gases in late 20th century Sahel drought. It makes a case for attribution by linking human emissions to the changes in sea surface temperaturesRead More →

Warming Assessment of the Bottom-Up Paris Agreement Emissions Pledges

November 2018
Yann Robiou du Pont, Malte Meinshausen
Nature Communications
This article discusses how countries pledge Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the terms of the Paris Agreement, and the implications of each country's NDCs. Read More →

The Carbon Loophole in Climate Policy: Quantifying the Embodied Carbon in Traded Products

August 2018
Daniel Moran, Ali Hasanbeigi, Cecilia Springer
KGM & Associates Pty Ltd., Global Eciency Intelligence, LLC.
This report provides an analysis of the carbon loophole at the global level, surveying global trends and delving into the countries and sectors most implicated in the carbon loophole.Read More →

How big meat and dairy are heating up the planet

July 2018
GRAIN
IATP - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
This study quantifies emissions from 35 of the world's largest meat and dairy companies and scrutinizes their climate plans.Read More →

LEGAL RESOURCE – Expert Report of Prof. Will Steffan – Gloucester Resources Limited v. Minister for Planning

June 2018
Will Steffan
Legal Document - Gloucester Resources Limited v. Minister for Planning
In this expert report, submitted in support of the New South Wales' Minister for Planning's denial of a coal mine permit, Professor Will Steffan assesses the impact of emissions from Australia's coal mining sector on global climate change.Read More →

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