80% of polluting emissions are generated by 57 companies

Few people know this fact, and according to the data from the latest Carbon Majors Majors report, since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, there are 57 companies producing fossil fuels and cement that are responsible for 80% of the CO2 emissions.

You can download the report at:

https://carbonmajors.org/site//data/000/027/Carbon_Majors_Launch_Report.pdf

All of these companies are large corporations and some of them are owned by their own countries. And furthermore, all of them have produced more polluting emissions in the 7 years after the signing of the Paris Agreement than in the 7 years prior to that date.

This data, which is frankly worrying, confronts us with an uncomfortable truth: the responsibility for climate change falls largely on a small number of very powerful, and perfectly well-known, actors.

The company that has polluted the most in this period is Exxon Mobil with more than 1.4% of the total, and is followed by other large oil companies such as BP, Shell, Saudi Aramco, Chevron, Cemex, etc… each of them contaminating more than 1% of the total.

Compared to these companies, normal people can do little apart from raising awareness and trying to live as sustainably as possible, but something can always be done. Starting with raising awareness of our environment and also with:

• Support sustainable companies: Favor companies that are adopting sustainable practices and reducing their carbon footprint
• Boycott polluting companies: Reduce our consumption of products and services from the companies that pollute the most.
• Demand transparency: Press companies to publish detailed information about their greenhouse gas emissions and their plans to reduce them
• Engage in political action: Demand that our governments implement policies that force companies to reduce their emissions and encourage the transition to a decarbonized economy.
• And any other action in this sense that occurs to us

The Society will change when its members, and we are part of it, get involved in its change.

Although the current outlook may seem discouraging, we cannot lose hope. Collective action has the power to change things.

Together we can change the world.