Fossil Free IndexesSM The Carbon Underground The World’s Top 200 Public Companies, Ranked by the Carbon Content of their Fossil Fuel Reserves April 2014 The Carbon Underground Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Methodology 6 The Carbon Underground 200TM 9 Market Dynamics 11 Notes 17 Updates 19 Acknowledgments 19 For More Information 19 About Fossil Free Indexes 20 Authors Stuart Braman
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[email protected] © 2014 Fossil Free Indexes, LLC All Rights Reserved 2 The Carbon Underground Executive Summary The CO2 emissions potential of the coal, oil and gas reserves of the world’s 200 largest public fossil fuel companies continues to grow (8.4% since year-end 2010), despite the dwindling carbon emissions budget implied by a broad government policy agreement to avoid excessive global warming. The Carbon Underground identifies the 100 largest public coal companies, and the 100 largest public oil and gas companies, based on estimates of the potential CO2 emissions of their reported reserves as of November 2013. The trends evidenced in this report demonstrate that reserve growth continues to be the norm for both the oil and gas and the coal sectors as a whole. The 546 Gt CO2 emissions potential estimated to be embedded in the reported reserves of the 200 firms - The Carbon Underground 200TM - represents over 400% of the firms’ carbon budget allocation, based on their share of carbon emissions potential of global reserves. This report estimates an updated carbon budget based on the only IPCC climate scenario with a future less than 2° C above preindustrial levels with >66% probability.