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"The US accounts for more than a third of the expansion of global oil and gas
production planned by mid-century, despite its claims of climate leadership,
research has found.
Canada and Russia have the next biggest expansion plans, calculated based on
how much carbon dioxide is likely to be produced from new developments,
followed by Iran, China and Brazil. The United Arab Emirates, which is to host
the annual UN climate summit this year, Cop28 in Dubai in November, is seventh
on the list.
The data, in a report from the campaign group Oil Change International, also
showed that five “global north countries” – the US, Canada, Australia, Norway
and the UK – will be responsible for just over half of all the planned
expansion from new oil and gas fields to 2050.
Greenhouse gas emissions from all of the oil and gas expansion that is planned
in the next three decades would be more than enough to drive global
temperatures well beyond the limit of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels that
countries agreed in 2021 at Cop26 in Glasgow, the report found.
The International Energy Agency warned in 2021 that no new oil and gas
exploration and development could take place if the world was to stay within
the 1.5C limit. But only a handful of countries with oil and gas reserves are
forswearing new exploration and drilling."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
