Climate Attribution

A measurement-based upstream oil and gas methane inventory for Alberta, Canada reveals higher emissions and different sources than official estimates

November 2023
Bradley M. Conrad, David R. Tyner, Hugh Z. Li, Donglai Xie, Matthew R. Johnson
Nature Communications Earth & Environment
This peer-reviewed study presents a methane inventory for conventional upstream oil and gas operations in Alberta, Canada, and finds that asset-level methane emissions are approximately 1.5x the federally reported levels.Read More →

Wildfire and degradation accelerate northern peatland carbon release

April 2023
S. Wilkinson, R. Andersen, P. Moore, S. Davidson, and J. Waddington
Nature Climate Change
This peer-reviewed study uses datasets from natural, degraded, and restored northern peatlands to show that increased wildfire incidence caused by human activity reduces the carbon sink provided by peatlands.Read More →

Large increases in methane emissions expected from North America’s largest wetland complex

March 2023
Sheel Bansal, Max Post Van Der Burg, Rachel R. Fern, John W. Jones, Rachel Lo, Owen P. McKenna, Brian A. Tangen, Zhen Zhang, Robert A. Gleason
Science Advances
This peer-reviewed study examines natural methane emissions from the Prairie Pothole Region, North America's largest wetland. These emissions are predicted to increase by 2- or 3-fold by 2100 under moderate or severe warming scenarios, respectively.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 →

Attributing extreme fire risk in Western Canada to human emissions

July 2017
Megan C. Kirchmeier-Young, Francis W. Zwiers, Nathan P. Gillett, Alex J. Cannon
Climatic Change
This peer-reviewed article applies an event attribution framework to quantify the influence of human-created greenhouse gas emissions on extreme fire risk in the current climate of a western Canada.Read More →