{"id":206966,"date":"2022-09-21T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=206966"},"modified":"2022-09-21T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T13:41:07","slug":"first-public-global-database-of-fossil-fuels-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/first-public-global-database-of-fossil-fuels-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"First public global database of fossil fuels launches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cFirst public global database of fossil fuels launches\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 17th September 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The World\u2019s first <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Registry of Fossil Fuels has been launched.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Launched by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carbon Tracker and the Global Energy Monitor\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is the first-of-its-kind database for tracking the world\u2019s fossil fuel production, reserves and emissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It includes data from over 50,000 oil, gas and coal fields in 89 countries. That covers 75% of global reserves, production and emissions. This registry is available for public use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What are the key analysis that can be made from this data?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Firstly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the United States and Russia have enough fossil fuel still underground untapped to exhaust the world\u2019s remaining carbon budget. That\u2019s the remaining carbon the world can afford to emit before a certain amount of warming occurs, in this case, 1.5 degrees Celsius.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 These reserves would generate 3.5 trillion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions which is more than all of the emissions produced since the Industrial Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Secondly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the 50,000 fields included, the most potent source of emissions is the Ghawar oil field in Saudi Arabia, which churns out some 525 million tonnes of carbon emissions each year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cFirst public global database of fossil fuels launches\u201d published in Indian Express on 17th September 2022. What is the News? The World\u2019s first Global Registry of Fossil Fuels has been launched. What is the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels? Launched by: Carbon Tracker and the Global Energy&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/first-public-global-database-of-fossil-fuels-launches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First public global database of fossil fuels launches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-206966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700073440},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}