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New Study Traces Two-Thirds of Industrial Carbon Emissions to Just 90 Institutions
2013-11-21 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: New peer-reviewed research has found that just 90 entities are responsible for extracting most of the fossil fuels that have been burned over the past 150 years. These carbon majors include 50 investor-owned companies, such as ChevronTexaco and Exxon-Mobil, 31 state-owned companies, such as Saudi Aramco and Pemex, and nine government-run industries in the former Soviet Union, China and other countries. Emissions from burning these fuels total nearly two-thirds of all the carbon that has been...
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