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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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Legal Resource – Third Party Intervention of Experts – Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland

October 2021
Sonia I. Seneviratne, Andreas Fischlin
Legal Document - Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland
In this letter, filed in support of third party intervention, the authors provide expert testimony regarding the alleged inadequacy of Switzerland's emission reduction targets and corresponding contribution to climate change.Read More →

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

October 2021
Stockholm Environment Institute, UN Environmental Program, International Institute for Sustainable Development, ODI, E3G
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

October 2021
Jim Vallette
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

September 2021
Jacob W. Ward, Jeremy J. Michalek, and Constantine Samaras
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

September 2021
UNFCCC Secretariat
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

September 2021
Climate TRACE
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

September 2021
Erika Schreder and Beth Kemler
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

August 2021
Dave Jones, Nicolas Fulghum, Peter Tunbridge
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 →

Legal Resource – Expert Report of Climatological Experts – The Planet v. Bolsonaro

August 2021
Rupert F. Stuart-Smith, Ben J. Clarke, Luke J. Harrington, Friederike E.L. Otto
Legal Document – The Planet v. Bolsonaro
In this expert report, filed by plaintiffs in "The Planet v. Bolsonaro," the authors provide expert testimony regarding the impact of deforestation in Brazil on climate change and global consequences. Read More →

World Heritage forests: Carbon sinks under pressure

January 2021
Carvalho-Resende, Tales; Gibbs, David; Harris, Nancy; Osipova, Elena
UNESCO, International Union for Conservation of Nature, World Resources Institute
This study finds that ten World Heritage forests were net carbon sources between 2001 and 2020 due to anthropogenic stressors, including land use and climate change.Read More →

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