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Holding the fossil fuel industry

to account

Damian Carrington

Environment editor

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The climate crisis ends when the burning of fossil fuels ends

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$1 trillion a year in pure profit every year for the last 50 years

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Challenges

NOC

IOC

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Approaches

  • Data
  • Leaks and whistleblowers
  • Political corruption and lobbying
  • Law suits
  • Protest

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Data: Carbon bombs

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Data: Carbon bombs

$103m a day on exploiting new oil and gas fields

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Data: Methane super emitters

NASA

GHGsat

MethaneSAT

UN IMEO

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Data: Methane super emitters

Biggest leak:

427 tonnes/hour

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Data: Methane super emitters

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United Arab Emirates and COP28

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damian.carrington@theguardian.com