The Corporations Behind Climate Change

Seven simple demands to hold fossil fuel companies accountable.

https://parametric.press/issue-02/corporations/

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Data Notes

Here are notes on reproducing the data pipeline for the article.

National emissions data

Original data source: CDIAC https://energy.appstate.edu/research/work-areas/cdiac-appstate

Raw data file: data/nation.1751_2016.csv

Aggregated by country in Excel: data/national-emissions.csv

IMPORTANT NOTE: CDIAC data is in units MtC. CAI data is in MtCO2. Multiply by 3.67 to convert from MtC to MtCO2, according to https://github.com/openclimatedata/cdiac-co2-fossil-national and https://archive.thinkprogress.org/the-biggest-source-of-mistakes-c-vs-co2-c0b077313b/

Corporate emissions data

Original data source: "sum ranking" Excel file from Richard Heede / CAI

Extracted Scope 1 emissions column into data/entity-emissions.csv