A first-of-its-kind database for tracking the world's fossil fuel production, reserves and emissions launches on Monday to coincide with climate talks taking place at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels includes data from over 50,000 oil, gas and coal fields in 89 countries. That covers 75% of global reserves, production and emissions, and is available for public use, a first for a collection of this size.Until now there has been private data available for purchase, and analysis of the world's fossil fuel usage and reserves.
"Civil society groups have got to get more of a focus on what governments are planning to do in terms of license issuance, both for coal and oil and gas, and actually begin to challenge this permitting process," Campanale told The Associated Press. "We already have enough extractable fossil fuels to cook the planet. We can't afford to use them all -- or almost any of them at this point. We've run out of time to build new things in old ways," said Rob Jackson, a Stanford University climate scientist who was not involved with the database.
The database shows that we have much more carbon than we need as a global community, Campanale said, and more than enough to overflow the bathtub and flood the bathroom in Jackson's analogy. So investors and shareholders should be holding decision makers at the world's largest oil, gas and coal companies accountable when they approve new investments in fossil fuel extraction, he said.
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