Fossil fuels

6 key issues for the UN climate change conference

Feature / As climate negotiators met, SEI researchers put their heads together to identify some of the key issues for the COP23.

Fairly sharing 1.5: national fair shares of a 1.5°C-compliant global mitigation effort

Journal article / This study examines national mitigation pledges presented at the 2015 Paris climate summit, relative to equity benchmarks and 1.5 °C-compliant global mitigation

Tackling fossil fuel subsidies through trade agreements

SEI brief / Reform of fossil fuel subsidies is attracting attention as a way to meet the objectives for the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Effect of subsidies to fossil fuel companies on United States crude oil production

Journal article

Mitigation on methadone – five takeaways from the Gordon Goodman Lecture

Feature / Negative emissions technologies are influencing policies and laws, and if we rely on these technologies and they fail, we will be locked into a two degree world

Addressing fossil fuel production under the UNFCCC: Paris and beyond

SEI working paper / How can countries more explicitly address the phasing out of fossil fuel production within the current architecture of the Paris Agreement?

Study finds that Norwegian tax breaks will increase petroleum production by 8 billion barrels

Press release

Energy and land use

Other publication / This paper examines land impact of terrestrial energy forms, the reduction of emissions from the use and supply of energy, and terrestrial carbon sinks.

One million premature deaths linked to ozone air pollution

Press release / New research links long-term exposure to ozone air pollution with one million premature deaths per year due to respiratory diseases.