“Your work is pathbreaking.”
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute
CAI Publications
Heede, Richard (2024) The Arc of the Carbon Majors Work Bends Toward Fossil Fuel Company Accountability: a retrospective, Climate Accountability Institute, 31 March, 12 pp.
Rekker, Saphira, Guangwu Chen, Richard Heede, Matthew Ives, Belinda Wade, & Chris Greig (2023) Evaluating fossil fuel companies’ alignment with 1.5°C climate pathways, Nature Climate Change, vol. 13:927-934, online 14 August.
Grasso, Marco, & Richard Heede (2023) Time to pay the piper: fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages, One Earth, online 19 May. https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(23)00198-7
Heede, Richard (2022) East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline: EACOP lifetime emissions from pipeline construction and operations, and crude oil shipping, refining, and end use, Climate Accountability Institute, commissioned by Climate Litigation Accelerator (NYU Law School) & Natural Justice (Capetown & Nairobi), August, 36 pp.
Heede, Richard (2022) Evolution of Corporate Accountability for Climate Change, Chapter 12 (pp. 239-254) in: César Rodríguez-Garavito, ed. Litigating the Climate Emergency: How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action, Cambridge University Press, 408 pp.
Heede, Richard (2022) East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline: EACOP lifetime emissions from pipeline construction and operations, and crude oil shipping, refining, and end use, Climate Accountability Institute, commissioned by Climate Litigation Accelerator (NYU Law School), 21 October, 42 pp.
Heede, Richard (2022) Carbon History of Holcim Ltd: CO2 emissions 1950-2021, commissioned by HEKS, Zurich, July, 30 pp.
Watts, Jonathan (2021) Oil firm bosses’ pay ‘incentivises them to undermine climate action’ The Guardian, 15 April.
Kenner, Dario, & Richard Heede (2021) White Knights, or Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Prospects for Big Oil to align emissions with a 1.5°C pathway, Energy Research & Social Science, online 15 April.
Licker, Rachel, Brenda Ekwurzel, Scott C. Doney, Sarah R. Cooley, Ivan D. Lima, Richard Heede, & Peter C. Frumhoff (2019) Attributing ocean acidification to major carbon producers, Environmental Research Letters, online 11 December.
Heede, Richard (2019) It’s time to rein in the fossil fuel giants before their greed chokes the planet, Commentary, The Guardian, 8 October https://theguardian.co.uk/
Climate Accountability Institute Press Release on Carbon Majors Update, 1965-2017, 9 October, 2019.
Heede, Richard (2019) Carbon Majors: Updating activity data, adding entities, & calculating emissions: A Training Manual, Climate Accountability Institute, Snowmass, Colorado, September, 56 pp. Download 4MB version here. Download 33MB version here.
Licker, Rachel, Brenda Ekwurzel, Scott C. Doney, Sarah R. Cooley, Ivan D. Lima, Richard Heede, & Peter C. Frumhoff (in review) Attributing ocean acidification to major carbon producers, Environmental Research Letters; forthcoming.
Heede, Richard (2019) Carbon Majors: Accounting for carbon and methane emissions 1854-2010 Methods & Results Report, ISBN 978-3-659-57841-0, OmniScriptum, Riga, 148 pp.
Heede, Richard (2018) Die “Carbon Majors” Zum Anteil der Produzenten von fossilen Brennstoffen und Zement an den anthropogenen Emissionen von Kohlendioxid und Methan 1854-2010, Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung, vol. 114:17-31, June.
Richard Heede, “Carbon producers’ tar pit: dinosaurs beware: The path to accountability of fossil fuel producers for climate change & climate damages,” Institute for New Economic Thinking Plenary Conference, Edinburgh, 23 October 2017.
Selected publications and media mentions of CAI’s work
Ekwurzel, B., J. Boneham, M.W. Dalton, R. Heede, R.J. Mera, M.R. Allen, & P.C. Frumhoff (2017) The rise in global atmospheric CO2, surface temperature and sea level from emissions traced to major carbon producers, Climatic Change, online.
Griffin, Paul (2017) The Carbon Majors Database: CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017, 14 pp.
Griffin, Paul, Richard Heede, & Ian van der Vlugt (2017) The Carbon Majors Database: Methodology Report 2017, 9 pp.
Griffin, Paul, Richard Heede, & Ian van der Vlugt (2017) The Carbon Majors Database: 2017 Dataset Release, 6 worksheets.
Faria, Pedro, Paul Griffin, & Richard Heede (2016) Aligning an oil and gas company’s reserves and future emissions with a 2ºC science-based target: A preliminary study of an oil and gas major, Presentation to the International Conference on Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy 26-27 September 2016, Queen’s College, Oxford, CDP London & Climate Accountability Institute Snowmass Colorado.
Heede, Richard, & Naomi Oreskes (2016) Potential emissions of CO2 and methane from proved reserves of fossil fuels: An alternative analysis, Global Environmental Change, vol. 36:12-20. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.10.005.
Supplementary Materials to Heede & Oreskes 2016.
Frumhoff, Peter, Richard Heede, & Naomi Oreskes (2015) The climate responsibilities of industrial carbon producers, Climatic Change, vol. 132(2):157-171.
Heede, Richard (2014) Update of Carbon Majors dataset to 2013: Press Release, Lima, Peru, COP-20, 8 December, 2 pp.
Heede, Richard (2014) Climate Responsibilities of Carbon Producers: An update of the Carbon Majors’ carbon fuel production & emissions to 2013, UCS & CAI Press Briefing, COP-20, Lima, Peru, 8 December.
Heede, Richard (2014)
Tracing anthropogenic CO2 and methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers, 1854-2010, Climatic Change, vol. 122:229-241; doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0986-y
Supplementary Materials to the Climatic Change paper.
Heede, Richard (2013) Carbon Majors: Accounting for carbon and methane emissions 1854-2010 Methods & Results Report, commissioned by Climate Justice Programme (Sydney) & Greenpeace International (Amsterdam), Climate Mitigation Services, Snowmass, CO, 104 pp.
Climate Accountability Institute & Union of Concerned Scientists (2012) Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons from Tobacco Control, Martin Johnson House, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, 14&15 June, 2012. 36 pp.
Friends of the Earth International (2004) Exxon’s Climate Footprint: the contribution of Exxon-Mobil to climate change since 1882, London, 16 pp, January.
Heede, Richard (2003) ExxonMobil Corporation: Emissions Inventory 1882-2002: Methods & Results, Climate Mitigation Services, Snowmass, Colorado, commissioned by Friends of the Earth Trust Limited, London; 30 pp., plus 13 worksheets.