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How Much Have the Oil Supermajors Contributed to Climate Change? Estimating the Carbon Footprint of the Oil Refining and Petroleum Products Sales Sectors

March 2022
Jiarui Chen, Perrine Toledano, Martin Dietrich Brauch
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI)
This report evaluates the contributions of oil supermajors to climate change by estimating the carbon footprint of the oil refining and petroleum products sales sectors through using quantitative methods and open-source models.Read More →

Warming temperatures drive at least half of the magnitude of long-term trait changes in European birds

March 2022
Nina McLean, Loeske E. B. Kruuk, Henk P. van der Jeugd, David Leech, Chris A. M. van Turnhout, and Martijn van de Pol
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
This study shows that in European birds global warming was likely the single most important contributor to temporal trends in laying date, body condition, and offspring number.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 →

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 →

Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

February 2022
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This report assesses the impacts of climate change and reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt.Read More →

Timing of emergence of modern rates of sea-level rise by 1863

February 2022
Jennifer S. Walker, Robert E. Kopp, Christopher M. Little, & Benjamin P. Horton
Nature Communications
This study shows that globally, it is very likely that rates of sea-level rise emerged above pre-industrial rates by 1863 CE, which is similar in timing to evidence for early ocean warming and glacier melt.Read More →

Frontiers 2022: Noise, Blazes and Mismatches

February 2022
United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Environment Programme
This report highlights the role of climate change and human influence in the changing wildfire regimes around the world, and the role of climate change in disrupting the life cycle patterns of plant and animal species.Read More →

Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire

February 2022
Jennifer K. Balch, John T. Abatzoglou, Maxwell B. Joseph, Michael J. Koontz, Adam L. Mahood, Joseph McGlinchy, Megan E. Cattau & A. Park Williams
Nature
This study predicts that continued night-time warming owing to anthropogenic climate change will promote more intense, longer-lasting and larger fires.Read More →