On November 9, the Climate TRACE coalition released the global inventory, via a Mapmost detailed greenhouse gas emissions report to date, with data on emissions from 79,815 sources around the world.
Between the locations we can find everything: specific power plants, airports, urban road networks and oil and gas fields, among others.
Presented at COP27, in which countries focus on setting ways to accelerate global climate goals, this new information provides the detail needed to understand and consequently set changes around the world.
“The climate crisis can sometimes seem like an intractable challenge, largely because we have limited knowledge of where emissions are coming from”said former US Vice President and founding member of Climate TRACE, Al Gore. This map that we present to you is the result of a very current need.
This map shows us the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from global facilities
Climate TRACE Leverage advances in satellite coverage, remote sensing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to not only directly detect the sources of greenhouse gas emissions, but also to locate and analyze activities that would otherwise be undetectable.
Highlight that the top 500 emissions sources worldwide account for less than 1% of total installations in the Climate TRACE dataset, and yet they accounted for 14% of global emissions in 2021.
Power plants alone account for more than half of the emissions in the top 500 list. Meanwhile, 26 of the 50 largest sources of emissions worldwide are oil and gas fields.
As you can see on the map above, Texas takes the gold for greenhouse gas emissions (208.61 MT (megatons)). We are talking about an area of oil and gas production located in West Texas and the adjacent area of southeastern New Mexico.
If we continue with the United States, It also gets the first place in terms of road pollution, with Los Angeles and New York as the most polluting and harmful to the environment due to the number of vehicles that circulate daily.
Most polluting facilities in Spain
On the other hand, let’s go to Spain and see which locations are the most polluting. Here we can highlight the Madrid-Barajas airport, which, in addition, is the twentieth airport with the highest emissions from aircraft during takeoffs worldwide.
Also emissions generated on roads in Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga and Valencia must be included. The Villaluenga de la Sagra cement plant (Toledo), the ArcelorMittal steel plant in Asturias or the Repsol refinery in Cartagena are characterized by being quite harmful to the environment (an average of 2 MT of CO2 emissions).
This map is helping to start “an era of radical transparency for tracking emissions”UN Secretary-General António Guterres said today at the global climate talks. “It’s making greenwashing, or to be more clear, cheating, more difficult,” ends.
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