C-THRU data used in a report on The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom
CIEL (Centre for International Environmental Law) recently came out with a report called Emissions Unleashed: The Climate Crisis and America’s Petrochemical Boom (August 2024), using research that has come out of the Research Efficiency Collective.
This report ‘exposes the climate footprint of the planned petrochemical buildout in America. It identifies the most climate-damaging projects and products, demonstrates carbon capture’s inability to significantly mitigate emissions, and uncovers how taxpayers are being misled into funding polluting projects sold as ‘climate solutions.’’
A recent paper written by Luke Cullen, Fanran Meng, Rick Lupton and Jonathan Cullen in Nature Chemical Engineering, Reducing uncertainties in greenhouse gas emissions from chemical production features. In this paper, they analysed cradle-to-gate emissions of 81 chemicals at 37,000 facilities worldwide, assessing 6 uncertainty sources. The results estimate a 34% uncertainty in total global emissions of 1.9 ± 0.6 Gt of CO2-equivalent emissions for 2020, and 15–40% uncertainties across most petrochemicals analyzed.
The C-THRU project is also given a mention, which delivered the world’s most comprehensive, reliable, and transparent account of current and future emissions for the global petrochemical sector. Resource Efficiency Collective’s Jonathan Cullen lead this project, funded by the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation, from 2020 – 2024.
