A number of both state-owned and private sector firms are increasingly coming under the gun for what is felt to be their unrelenting exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves, which are believed to be directly linked to more than a third of all contemporary greenhouse gas emissions.
Back in October, as global attention continued to focus on the oil recovery exploits of the oil majors, in an effort to determine the extent to which these companies contributed to the emission of greenhouse gases, The Guardian in October, disclosed the names of twenty fossil fuel companies whose sustained exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves, it says, is linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the modern era.
