The article in the Guardian makes no distinction between operational emissions the companies are directly responsible for and the downstream emissions often caused by regular people using products the corporations sell. Downstream emissions account for 90 per cent of the total company emissions, leaving these 100 corporations responsible for about seven per cent of global emissions. We’re on the hook for two-thirds of global emissions. It’s a “deeply flawed system” that creates a “vastly distorted picture of the drivers of global emissions,” Klein argued. The top company on the list of global emitters is the state-owned Chinese coal company, which is responsible for a whopping 14 per cent of global emissions.

Source: National Post October 14, 2018 17:07 UTC