For us, Climate Holdouts are those organizations that continue to majorly contribute to the warming of the planet, or who have actively held up legislation that would enable improvements in carbon regulation.
Fossil Fuel Companies.
The research is clear: globally, almost 80% of human-made Greenhouse Gas emissions come from fossil fuels or industrial practices. This means that most of the organizations we identify as “holdouts” are fossil fuel companies: relevant sites are their holdings or offices.
The Corporate Mapping Projects’ Fossil-Power Top 50 is organized into three categories:
- Emitters – Corporations based in Western Canada that are directly involved extracting, processing and transporting oil, gas and coal.
- Enablers – Organizations that enable fossil fuel production such as banks and industry-friendly regulators.
- Legitimators – Organizations that persuade the public or political elites that ‘business as usual’ must continue or that a timely shift away from dependence on fossil fuels is unfeasible or unnecessary. Legitimators include industry associations, think tanks, lobby groups, business councils and pro-oil advocacy groups
Some key resources in tracking Fossil Fuel Impact:
Further research will be posted here as it develops.