twenty companies

just twenty companies
contributing a third of global emissions

Saudi Aramco
Chevron Corporation
Gazprom
ExxonMobil
National Iranian Oil Company

we buy their products
addicted

BP
Royal Dutch Shell
Coal India Limited
Pemex
Petróleos de Venezuela

we use their products
petrol, jet fuel, gas, coal

PetroChina
Peabody Energy
ConocoPhillips
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation

they extract, refine and deliver
what we crave

Iraq National Oil Co
Total SA
Sonatrach
BHP Billiton
Petrobras

record profits
billions of people affected
failed political systems




Notes


In October 2019, the Climate Accountability Institute published a dataset quantifying carbon and methane emissions by the largest oil, gas and coal companies. The top 20 companies released a staggering 35% of all fossil fuel and cement emissions over the period 1965 to 2017 (CAI, 2019). These global polluters affect the lives of billions of people while making huge profits (Taylor and Watts, 2019).  
 

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