Announcements
Announcements
The world’s countries are on track to produce far more fossil fuels than consistent with their Paris Agreement commitment to limit global warming to 1.5°C or “well below” 2°C. To create transparency on the effects of this trajectory, SEI is building a web-based platform that tracks global fossil fuel infrastructure development and enables civil society organizations, governments, institutions and others to evaluate and communicate potential threats to ecosystems and communities.
A global overview of sedimentary basins with potential fossil fuel deposits, known potential exploration areas, existing production areas, and existing and planned pipelines, compiled using a range of open-source data products. Graphic: Fossil Fuel Transparency Platform.
The development of new oil, gas, and coal infrastructure must stop in order to meet internationally agreed-upon climate goals. Nevertheless, companies and countries are still expanding fossil fuel production activities, pushing extraction into areas that are culturally and biologically important, such as Indigenous land, protected ecosystems, and water basins.
SEI is working with the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development and Global Energy Monitor to create a new data-driven platform that allows users to visualize both where industry plans to build infrastructure, and how those plans could overlap with protected areas, Indigenous territories, Ramsar protected wetland sites, and other areas of ecological and cultural importance. A core aspect of this work is transparency: the platform brings together disparate publicly available data into an easy-to-use and accessible mapping tool. The final platform will be open-access, enabling non-expert users to select and visualize data from a broad database on emerging fossil fuel developments, and generate maps customized to the users’ interests.
Past event / SEI's mapping tools reveal that planned fossil fuel pipelines and exploration threaten biodiversity, protected lands and communities all over the world.
Past event / SEI's mapping tools reveal that planned fossil fuel pipelines and exploration threaten biodiversity, protected lands and communities all over the world.
Other publication / The 2021 report reveals that countries' fossil fuel production plans remain dangerously out of sync with the limits consistent with the Paris Agreement.
Initiative / The Carbon Lock-In Initiative seeks to uncover and address the barriers that uphold the fossil fuel-based economy.
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