In the seven years after the Paris Agreement, most fossil fuel companies produced more fossil fuels than they did in the seven years before the Agreement’s adoption. Just 57 corporate and state entities were linked to 80% of fossil fuel and cement CO2 emissions from 2016 through 2022. These findings come from Carbon Majors, the database of historical production data from the world’s largest fossil fuel & cement producers, made accessible under InfluenceMap’s new website carbonmajors.org.
In this webinar, InfluenceMap’s researchers will overview the Carbon Majors platform & data and explore its use cases, including in campaigns, legal cases, and academic research. Dr. Shaina Sadai from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) will explore how UCS and other academics have already used the data and how researchers can use it going forward.
InfluenceMap
Daan Van AckerProgram Manager, FinanceMap
Daan leads the FinanceMap program, analysing financial institutions through a climate lens. Prior to joining InfluenceMap in 2020, Daan earned his MSc in Mechanical Engineering from KU Leuven and the MSc in Global Management from the London School of Economics. He has previous experience in the climate space through work in the sustainable finance and renewable energy fields.
InfluenceMap
Emmett ConnaireAnalyst, FinanceMap & Carbon Majors
Emmett joined InfluenceMap in January 2022, having earned his BSc in Physics at Queen Mary, University of London in 2021. Emmett works as an Analyst on our FinanceMap workstream as well as being responsible for integrating, maintaining, and updating the Carbon Majors database originally released by the Climate Accountability Institute.
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Dr. Shaina SadaiHitz Fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists
Shaina Sadai is a climate scientist and critical physical geographer who currently serves as the Hitz Fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Her research focuses on projecting future global changes in climate and sea level, attributing climate impacts to corporate high emitters, and understanding climate justice, particularly through critical geographies of sea level rise and multispecies climate justice frameworks. She has a PhD in Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, MS in Applied Mathematics, BS in Astrophysics, and BS in Physics.
