A detailed inventory of the top known sources of greenhouse gas emitters launched by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt on Wednesday found that the top 14 individual polluters are all gas and oil fields and their associated facilities, despite their emissions being "significantly underreported."
Gore announces fossil fuel emissions inventory at UN summit
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High-tech emissions tracker exposes carbon polluters in real time
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Planet-heating emissions from oil and gas production could be three times higher than reported, according to a satellite monitoring project launched Wednesday that the UN chief said made it harder to "cheat".The new tool unveiled at United Nations COP27 climate talks in Egypt has pinpointed more than 70,000 sites spewing emissions into the atmosphere.The project, run by a group of research institutions, charities and companies, monitors sites including heavy industry, energy production, agriculture, transport, waste and mining.