Tracing climate damage back to major polluters just got easi
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2025 8:55 amTracing climate damage back to major polluters just got easier
By Ashmeeta Subra - Planet Ark - June 5th, 2025
Technological advances are making it easier all the time to understand how we are damaging our climate, with emissions now being traceable to specific polluters.
EXCERPT: "A new study published in the journal Nature has linked over $43 trillion (US$28 trillion) in global heat-related economic damage to emissions from the world’s largest corporations. For comparison, this figure is just slightly lesser than the total value of all goods and services produced in the United States in 2024, which amounted to about $44 trillion (US$29 trillion).
Researchers at Dartmouth College traced the contributions of 111 major companies to rising global temperatures and the resulting economic losses, discovering that more than half of the total cost was linked to just ten fossil fuel producers including companies like Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell. . . . ."
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By Ashmeeta Subra - Planet Ark - June 5th, 2025
Technological advances are making it easier all the time to understand how we are damaging our climate, with emissions now being traceable to specific polluters.
EXCERPT: "A new study published in the journal Nature has linked over $43 trillion (US$28 trillion) in global heat-related economic damage to emissions from the world’s largest corporations. For comparison, this figure is just slightly lesser than the total value of all goods and services produced in the United States in 2024, which amounted to about $44 trillion (US$29 trillion).
Researchers at Dartmouth College traced the contributions of 111 major companies to rising global temperatures and the resulting economic losses, discovering that more than half of the total cost was linked to just ten fossil fuel producers including companies like Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell. . . . ."
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