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Half of Fossil Fuel Carbon Emissions in 2024 Came From 32 Companies - Inside Climate News As fossil fuel-based carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise to record levels, a new analysis shows that a majority of these emissions can be traced back to a shrinking number of large corporate ent...

New report out from @influencemap.bsky.social shows that an increasingly shrinking number of large fossil fuel producers generate a majority of global CO2 emissions

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Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows

- Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

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The Carbon Majors database is a crucial tool for attribution and accountability among ghg emitters.

Most recently - used to support legislation like the Climate Superfund laws in Vermont and New York and the five more proposed across the US.

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

The research also finds:

🏭 State-controlled emitters dominated global emissions in 2024, contributing 57% of global fossil CO₂ emissions.

⚡ 50% of global emissions are linked to just 32 companies, showing increasing consolidation among the highest emitters.

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Carbon Majors: 2024 Data Update A new briefing analyzing the latest emissions data from the Carbon Majors database.

🚨New Data: 17 of the top 20 emitters in 2024 controlled by governments that opposed a fossil fuel phase-out at COP30

InfluenceMap’s 🆕 update to the Carbon Majors database includes the latest emissions data, painting a stark picture of rising emissions—particularly from state-controlled entities👇

Join our next webinar 👉 ’How the EU Can Set the Aviation Industry on Track for Net Zero’

🗓️ Thursday December 11, 1430 GMT

✈️ This webinar will cover how existing regulations fail, how industry has fought regulation & how the EU can facilitate emissions reductions

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Many managers 'inactive or inconsistent' on climate lobbying stewardship, finds FinanceMap Assessment also finds investors mostly focused on disclosure rather than lobbying alignment with 1.5C.

🌍 Overall, European asset managers scored consistently higher than their peers, while North American managers saw scores decrease between 2023 and 2024. Japanese asset managers demonstrated a marked overall improvement in their climate lobbying stewardship between 2021 and 2024.

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🗝️ Key investor initiatives highlight the importance of policy engagement to address the financial risks posed by climate change.

Yet, many of the world’s largest asset managers are failing to step up on this topic with only 7/39 asset managers demonstrating best practice stewardship.

The State of Asset Manager Stewardship on Climate Lobbying FinanceMap’s assessment of the world’s largest asset managers finds that only a small group of leading firms is conducting robust stewardship of investee companies’ climate lobbying activities.

⏰ 🚨 New from InfluenceMap's FinanceMap Platform ➡️ Asset Managers & Climate Lobbying Stewardship

🔎 This analysis of the world’s largest asset managers shows only a small group exhibits best practice in this field - with the majority not robustly engaging with their investee companies on the topic 🧵

Powered by Polluters? Mobilising against the fossil fuel lobby I've just signed up to attend the Fossil Free Parliament campaign's online event: "Powered by Polluters? Mobilising against the fossil fuel lobby". The campaign has just revealed that the Labour gov...

📣 Tonight! Join us and this brill panel to learn about the damage caused by oily lobbying and how we can overpower its influence to shape climate & energy policy for public good!

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Current Corporate Communications Around Just Transition Risk Muddying the Conversation Initial findings from new InfluenceMap research indicate that corporate communications around the term “just transition” are generally misaligned with international framework definitions, suggesting t...

Analyzing 1,500+ evidence pieces across almost 300 companies & industry groups 2022 - 2024 InfluenceMap finds:

69% of communications only name-dropped or included a broad reference to a just transition

11% used just transition language to argue for an extended role for fossil fuels 🔎👇

🚨New 🚨InfluenceMap research looking at corporate use of Just Transition language finds that most corporate use of the term is Vague or Misleading.

While #COP30 delegates try to agree a mechanism for a just transition - corporates appear behind on meaningful engagement in their communications🧵

3️⃣ Almost 2/3(64.5%) of misleading narratives from the fossil fuel industry regarding the energy transition were used in 🗣️CEO messaging or direct engagement with policymakers🗣️ demonstrating how these narratives are part of a deliberate high-level strategy aimed at shaping the policy environment.

2️⃣ The oil & gas industries' most used arguments focus on emphasizing the benefits of fossil gas for 💰affordability & energy security💰, leading these types of arguments to overtake those that emphasize limitations/uncertainties of alternative solutions (its previously favoured talking point).

1️⃣ Between COP20 and COP30, oil and gas companies and their industry associations 📈increased📈 their use of misleading narratives about the energy transition by one third compared to the year before COP29.

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🚨📣InfluenceMap has just launched our Annual COP Narrative Tracker

Keeping track of the favoured narratives from the oil and gas industry over the last year.

This year - three key facts stood out from the analysis 👇🧵

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Climate-Related Corporate Policy Engagement in Brazil This briefing presents InfluenceMap’s initial analysis of how companies in Brazil are engaging with climate policy.

🇧🇷📣What does corporate lobbying look like in Brazil right now?

New analysis from InfluenceMap has found that a lack of strategic engagement on climate policies is leaving them vulnerable to vested-interest lobbying, particularly from oil & gas, and agriculture 👀👇

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🚨📣New report from InfluenceMap 🌐 Big Tech’s Battle for the Future of Emissions Accounting🌐

How the world’s largest technology companies are using sponsored research to advance their preferred emissions accounting metrics👇

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The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

"Many oil and gas companies advocating for #CCS in UK have simultaneously raised issues with the technical feasibility and commercial viability of CCS in other countries when faced with regulation"

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➕🚗🏭 new calculations show that if all new gas plants with CCS currently proposed by industry were to go ahead - even at a 90% capture rate - they could emit 2.4-5 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually, the same as adding 1.3-2.6 million petrol cars per year in the UK.

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

⏰✈️ Don’t forget to sign up tomorrow's InfluenceMap's webinar: “Have Vested Interests Captured the UN’s Aviation Agency on Climate?”

🗓️ Wednesday, October 8, 10:00–11:00 EDT | 15:00–16:00 BST

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How the Corporate Sector Can Drive Ambitious Climate Action in India. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. In this webinar, InfluenceMap and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)—joined by speakers from an Indian asset manager and the World Bank—will explore the corporate climate policy engagement land...

Don't miss InfluenceMap's next webinar in partnership with TERI, 10:30 AM BST tomorrow -

“How the Corporate Sector Can Drive Ambitious Climate Action in India.”

Hear from experts on how companies and investors can drive climate action in India 🇮🇳

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"InfluenceMap found Canada’s big five banks (RBC, TD, BMO, CIBC and Scotiabank) provided US$131 bn to fossil fuel companies in 2024, on average representing 18% of their entire financing portfolios. That’s more than twice than the top US banks, & more than three times their top European peers." 👀👇

California Superfund Legislation: Opposition by Major Industry Groups New InfluenceMap analysis shows how powerful industry associations are strategically opposing state Climate Superfund bills and laws, including in California, that aim to recoup the costs of climate c...

Analysis of lobbying on these bills and laws finds that prominent fossil fuel industry associations representing many of these producers are leading opposition to this nationwide, alongside large cross-sector industry groups.

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New research 🚨👉 At least 47 extractive oil and gas companies could be liable under California’s proposed Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act, according to the Carbon Majors database.

At least 18 of these 47 companies are members of the American Petroleum Institute (API).

Canada’s Big Five Banks: Fueling Fossil Risk? FinanceMap’s 2025 assessment of the Canadian Big Five banks’ 2020–2024 lending and underwriting activities finds that the banks show persistent high exposure to the fossil fuel sector, particularly hi...

This latest report finds that the Big Five Canadian banks averaged $0.21 in green financing for every $1 in fossil fuel financing in 2024, substantially below the 0.68:1 ratio achieved by top European banks, indicating a lack of commitment to the climate transition.

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🇨🇦 New Report finds Canada's Big Five banks exposed to greater transition risk than global peers because of costly domestic FF financing...

💸 In 2024 18.3% of the banks’ financing went to FF companies, more than 2x their US counterparts and 3x their European peers

Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry Exclusive: Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting, thinktank says

Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry

- Industry delegates outnumbered climate experts by 14 to one at recent ICAO meeting, @influencemap.bsky.social thinktank says

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