Richard Michael Blaber1d ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/07/iran-war-global-dependence-fossil-fuels-biggest-emitters-reaping-rewards. "Simon Stiell, the UN #climate chief, said in March: 'Fossil fuel dependency is ripping away #nationalsecurity & #sovereignty & replacing it with subservience & rising costs.' ... the #war in #Iran, & the #Ukraine war before it, have also exposed a sobering reality. Many of the world’s most powerful countries & biggest #emitters are beneficiaries of high #fossilfuel prices. The US #oil & #gas sector is set for a $60bn windfall from the war."
As Iran war exposes global dependence on fossil fuels, the biggest emitters are reaping the rewards

Worst polluters hold world’s future in their hands as they benefit from higher fossil fuel prices, but global trends favour renewables

The Guardian
Show threadPaperLouseApr 28, 2025

@festal

„The dispute came to a head earlier this month when the #SouthernEnvironmentalLawCenter revealed that #xAI had quietly moved in at least 35 portable #methane gas turbines without air permits to help power its #supercomputer. The group says this many generators have the capacity to #power an entire city and are enormous #emitters of #toxic and #carcinogenic #pollution. The law center made the discovery by taking satellite images of the xAI facility.“

Nicolas WöhrlApr 3, 2025

New paper out: „Plasma-induced optically active defects in hexagonal boron nitride“. We show that purely physical argon #plasma treatment is the most promising route for creating optically active #defect #emitters in #hBN by plasma exposure.

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article/126/4/043103/3332361/Plasma-induced-optically-active-defects-in

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Mar 29, 2025

Could a new kind of #carbon budget ensure top #emitters pay their dues?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2474091-could-a-new-kind-of-carbon-budget-ensure-top-emitters-pay-their-dues/

Could a new kind of carbon budget ensure top emitters pay their dues?

Some researchers propose that countries should start to rack up a carbon debt once they exceed their carbon budget, obliging them to do more to draw down carbon dioxide, but the idea is unlikely to form part of international climate agreements

New Scientist
Eric Maugendre about carbonJul 15, 2024

'Even in those economies with lower historical and per capita emissions, there is a significant gap between most of the population’s emissions and the highest emitters. The economist Lucas Chancel finds that “carbon inequality” is greater within countries than between them, and that it tracks inequalities in income and wealth.'

Laurence Tubiana : https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/tax-fossil-fuels-pollution-wealth-revenues-for-climate-change-just-transition-by-laurence-tubiana-2024-04

#fossilFuels #fossil #emitters #emissions #CO2 #GHG #pollution #pollutionTax #taxes #LaurenceTubiana #Tubiana #France #FRPol

Taxing Polluters Is the Key to Climate Justice | by Laurence Tubiana - Project Syndicate

Laurence Tubiana makes the case for new levies to finance green investments in developing countries.

Project Syndicate
Show threadEric Maugendre about carbonJul 10, 2024

The #Pantanal is the world’s most extensive tropical wetland.

Threats include:
• Export-driven cattle ranching
• Monoculture, including soy plantations
• Mining, road construction, hydropower
• Extreme heatwaves and droughts, driven by climate heating
• Wildfires, including many set intentionally to clear land for agriculture.

#EJF: https://ejfoundation.org/what-we-do/protecting-the-pantanal @food

#globalHeating #wetlands #agribusiness #Brazil #Bolivia #Paraguay #meat #cattle #methane #emitters #climateChange #wildfires

Protecting the Pantanal

The Pantanal is the world’s most extensive tropical wetland, but it is threatened by agribusiness and global heating. EJF is working to protect this biome.

Environmental Justice Foundation
Show threadEric Maugendre about carbonJun 14, 2024

It is a matter of national sovereignty:
“Chinese officials view coal as the primary guarantee of energy security,” said Anders Hove, senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies cited at https://colombogazette.com/2024/06/05/chinas-coal-surge-threatens-climate-goals-despite-xis-pledge/

#China #coal #footprint #GHG #CO2 #carbon #economy #production #industry #energy #anthropocene #emissions #emitters #expellents #climateChange

anatoleApr 12, 2024

A map of population and a map of CO2

#CO2 #density #population #emitters #emissions #Europe #Benelux #Netherlands #Germany #Poland #Russia #GHG #climateChange #map #maps

Show threadEric Maugendre about carbonApr 12, 2024

@climate @geography
The previous comparison of two maps shows similar to a study of Per Capita CO2 Emissions:
Oil-producing countries in the Persian Gulf are the highest expellents of CO2 per person, followed by developed countries like the #USA, #Australia, #NewZealand, and #Canada: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-global-per-capita-co2-emissions/

#GHG #CO2 #DataViz #economy #production #industry #energy #oilAndGas #density #anthropocene #emissions #emitters #expellents #developed #OECD

Visualizing Global Per Capita CO2 Emissions

33.6 Gt of CO2 was emitted across the world in 2019. Here we visualize the global per capita CO2 emissions by country and region.

Visual Capitalist
Eric Maugendre about carbonApr 12, 2024

@vonneudeck @climate @anthropocene @geography

A person at @datadon might take the time to compute a comparison of emissions and population footprints. Here is data: https://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/datasets.php

What is available is to look at the map of emissions density at https://mas.to/@maugendre/112189998576957832 and the below map of population density.

#GHG #CO2 #DataViz #maps #map #economy #production #industry #energy #oilAndGas #density #anthropocene #emissions #emitters

Global Human Settlement - Datasets - European Commission

The GHSL framework produces thematic information and evidence-based knowledge supporting the implementation of EU urban policy and the international frameworks.