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Group which lists coal gas and oil companies

Urgewald
Established 1992 Edit this on Wikidata (32 years ago)
Legal status registered association Edit this on Wikidata
Headquarters Sassenberg Edit this on Wikidata
Membership 44 (2021) Edit this on Wikidata
Revenue 2,243,117 Euro (2019) Edit this on Wikidata
Website urgewald.org/english Edit this on Wikidata

Urgewald is a group that researches coal companies,[1][2][3][4] because they are among the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and so cause climate change.[5][6][7][8][9] The Global Coal Exit List, which they publish, is famous.[10]

Urgewald provided analysis to underpin a Guardian newspaper exposé on the "scores of vast projects" that the oil and gas majors are planning as of May 2022[update]. If only a fraction of these projects proceed to exploitation, the consequences for the global climate will still be huge.[11]

  1. ^ "Coal crunch: Asia faces winter of discontent". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
  2. ^ "Coal Industry Is Getting Ample Funding to Pile Into New Plants". Bloomberg. 2021-10-07. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
  3. ^ Penney, Veronica (2021-02-08). "Coal-Fired Power Took a Beating During the Pandemic, Study Finds". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
  4. ^ "Banken pumpen Milliarden in klimaschädliche Industrien". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). 28 March 2018. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
  5. ^ "National Pension Service is world's 11th-largest institutional investor in coal industry". Korea Times. 2021-02-26. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  6. ^ "'Energy day'at COP26: Voices call out for an end to use of coal, gas and oil". UN News. 2021-11-04. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  7. ^ "Half of global coal companies continue to develop new assets". China Dialogue. 2021-12-01. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  8. ^ Sims, Tom (2021-11-26). "With sponges and petitions, climate activists take on insurers". Reuters. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  9. ^ Toussaint, Eric (2022-01-14). "Crise climática ecológica: os aprendizes de feticeiro do Banco Mundial e do FMI". CADTM (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  10. ^ Chan, Hoy-Yen; Merdekawati, Monika; Suryadi, Beni (2022-01-01). "Bank climate actions and their implications for the coal power sector". Energy Strategy Reviews. 39: 100799. doi:10.1016/j.esr.2021.100799. ISSN 2211-467X. S2CID 245322073.
  11. ^ Carrington, Damian; Taylor, Matthew (11 May 2022). "Revealed: the 'carbon bombs' set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown". The Guardian. London, United Kingdom. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2022-05-11.