The top 20 companies have contributed 480bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent since 1965 Reining in our dependence on fossil fuels and dramatically accelerating the transition to renewable energy has never been more urgent. The UN says the coming decade is crucial if the world is to avoid the most catastrophic consequences of global heating. One aim of the project is to move the focus of debate from individual responsibilities to power structures – so our reporters also examined the financial and lobbying structures that let fossil fuel firms keep growing, and discovered which elected politicians were voting for change.Īnother aim of the project is to press governments and corporations to close the gap between ambitious long-term promises and lacklustre short-term action. Heede said: "The fact that consumers combust the fuels to carbon dioxide, water, heat and pollutants does not absolve the fossil fuel companies from responsibility for knowingly perpetuating the carbon era and accelerating the climate crisis toward the existential threat it has now become." The analysis, undertaken by Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute, calculates how much carbon is emitted throughout the supply chain, from extraction to use by consumers. The project focuses on what the companies have extracted from the ground, and the subsequent emissions they are responsible for, since 1965. The investigation has involved more than 20 Guardian journalists working across the world for the past six months. The Guardian has collaborated with leading scientists and NGOs to expose, with exclusive data, investigations and analysis, the fossil fuel companies that are perpetuating the climate crisis – some of which have accelerated their extraction of coal, oil and gas even as the devastating impact on the planet and humanity was becoming clear.
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