Releases & Use Cases

Explore real-world use cases of the database, including academic uses, legal citations, and media coverage, and stay up-to-date about new releases and updates. These include InfluenceMap Carbon Majors releases, as well as third-party uses of the database.

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Vermont Climate Superfund Act

31 May 2024

The Carbon Majors Database: Launch Report

4 April 2024

Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016, The Guardian

4 April 2024

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Vermont Climate Superfund Act

31 May 2024

The Carbon Majors Database: Launch Report

4 April 2024

Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016, The Guardian

4 April 2024

The Arc of the Carbon Majors Work Bends Toward Fossil Fuel Company Accountability

4 April 2024

Richard Heede

How to make polluters pay - A new Vermont bill would create a “climate superfund”, New York Times

2 April 2024

Senate Bill 1497, Polluters Pay Climate Cost Recovery Act of 2024

21 March 2024

EBA Pillar 3 ESG disclosures - Source

24 January 2022

Fossil fuel firms owe climate reparations of $209bn a year, says study, The Guardian

19 May 2023

It's time to rein in the fossil fuel giants before their greed chokes the planet, The Guardian

9 October 2019

Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions, The Guardian

9 October 2019

Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says, The Guardian

10 July 2017

CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017

10 July 2017

Legal Citations

Bucks County, Pennsylvania vs. Big Oil

25 March 2024

InterAmerican Court of Human Rights - Advisory Opinion

29 February 2024

City of Chicago vs. Big Oil

20 February 2024

Municipality of San Juan vs. Big Oil

14 December 2023

People of California vs. Big Oil

15 September 2023

Multnomah County vs. Big Oil

22 June 2023

Greenpeace Italia vs. ENI

9 May 2023

Asmania et al. vs. Holcim

30 January 2023

Municipalities of Puerto Rico vs. Big Oil

22 November 2022

Attorney General of New Jersey vs. Big Oil

18 October 2022

Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines - National Inquiry on Climate Change

6 May 2022

City of Hoboken vs. Big Oil

2 Septeber 2020

Mayor & City Council of Baltimore vs. Big Oil

20 July 2018

Rhode Island vs. Big Oil

2 July 2018

San Francisco and Oakland Lawsuit Against Five Carbon Majors

20 September 2017

County of San Mateo vs. Big Oil

17 July 2017

Lliuya vs. RWE

14 November 2015

Academic Citations

Carbon majors' trillion-dollar damages: The case for contributions from fossil wealth to loss and damage finance

16 November 2023

Evaluating fossil fuel companies' alignment with 1.5°C climate pathways

14 August 2023

Time to pay the piper: fossil fuel companies' reparations for climate damages

19 May 2023

White Knights, or Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Prospects for Big Oil to align supply chain emissions with a 1.5°C pathway

3 September 2021

Attributing ocean acidification to major carbon producers

11 December 2019

The rise in global atmospheric CO2, surface temperature, and sea level from emissions traced to major carbon producers

7 September 2017

Potential emissions of CO2 and methane from proved reserves of fossil fuels: An alternative analysis

1 January 2016

The climate responsibilities of industrial carbon producers

23 July 2015

Carbon Majors: Accounting for carbon and methane emissions 1854-2010 Methods & Results Report

7 April 2014

Tracing anthropogenic CO2 and methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers 1854-2010

22 November 2013