For fossil fuels first public global database launches
On Monday to coincide with climate talks taking place at the United Nations General Assembly in New York a first-of-its-kind database for tracking the world’s fossil fuel production, reserves and emissions launches. 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 a first for a collection of this size and is available for public use. For purchase, and analysis of the world’s fossil fuel usage and reserves until now there has been private data available, the International Energy Agency also maintains public data on oil, gas and coal, for those fossil fuels but it focuses on the demand, whereas this new database looks at what is yet to be burned. On financial markets a non profit think tank that researches the energy transition’s effect, and the Global Energy Monitor, an organization that tracks around the globe a variety of energy projects, by Carbon Tracker the r...