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Fossil fuels account for over three-fourths of greenhouse gas emissions, fuelling a climate crisis that is projected to devastate ecosystems and communities across the globe.
The Fossil Fuel Atlas is a GIS-based open-access tool that shows the overlap between fossil fuel planned and existing fossil fuel production. This report gives an overview of the tool’s functions, the threats fossil fuels pose to biodiversity and ecosystems, and case studies that demonstrate the Fossil Fuel Atlas’s uses.
Already at a historic high, fossil fuel production is poised to continue growing, with myriad adverse impacts on people and the environment.
The Fossil Fuel Atlas, now in beta version, brings these clashes into stark relief, showing where fossil fuel exploration and production clashes with Indigenous territories, Ramsar-protected wetlands, marine migration paths and more.
Developed with Global Energy Monitor and Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, the Fossil Fuel Atlas is intended to be used by civil society organizations and decision-makers seeking more information on the environmental and social effects of fossil fuel infrastructure.
Past event / SEI's mapping tools reveal that planned fossil fuel pipelines and exploration threaten biodiversity, protected lands and communities all over the world.
Tool / This web-based platform tracks fossil fuel infrastructure development and enables users to evaluate potential threats to ecosystems and communities.
Other publication / Countries will, in aggregate, produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C.
Other publication / This paper draws on new data examining the starkly different global distribution of carbon consumption emissions among individuals from 1990 to 2015 and beyond.
SEI report / Amid growing momentum to link fossil fuel production and climate goals, transparency on countries’ alignment with Paris goals is crucial to assessing progress.
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