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September 2020

Big Oil Reality Check: Assessing oil and gas climate plans

Oil Change International
This discussion paper measures oil and gas company climate plans against ten minimum criteria, focusing on the ambition, integrity, and ability necessary to implement a just transition and achieve a 1.5°C aligned managed decline of oil and fossil gas.

Green Economy Guideline Manual - Oil, Gas & Petrochemical

Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA)

This Green Economy Guidelines (GEG) Manual provides a checklist for businesses to address areas of procurement, operations and supply chain management in order to minimize impact on the environment.

January 2020

The Oil and Gas Industry in Energy Transitions

International Energy Agency (IEA)
This report The Oil and Gas Industry in Energy Transitions demonstrates that three considerations provide the boundaries for this analysis. First, the prospect of rising demand for the services that energy provides due to a growing global population – some of whom remain without access to modern energy – and an expanding global economy.
July 2001

Valuation of Oil and Gas Reserves in the Netherlands

Eurostat
This working paper details the results for both the total value of Dutch oil and gas reserves and the government appropriation of the resource rent from extraction. This is part of a larger effort by Eurostat to conduct valuations on sub-soil assets as part of their work to develop environmental accounts linked to national accounts. The methods and data presented in this paper can support both researchers and compilers of accounts for subsoil assets.

Kenya Sector Plan for Oil and Other Minerals 2013-2017

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Kenya
Kenya Sector Plan for Oil and Other Minerals 2013-2017 outlines the key priority areas that need to be addressed in order to realize the potentials of the sector. Already successes are seen in the form of an increase in the oil/gas sector. The number of active exploration licenses has been on the increase following the discovery of oil in Turkana area and gas in Lamu County.
November 2017

Community-Based Monitoring to End Oil Contamination in the Peruvian Amazon

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)
Traditional knowledge has been used by generations of indigenous peoples and local communities to monitor their communities’ wellbeing and the state of their territories and natural resources.
January 2018

Driving Deforestation: The Impact of Expanding Palm Oil Demand through Biofuel Policy

Rainforest Foundation Norway, Cerulogy
The report Driving Deforestation: The Impact of Expanding Palm Oil Demand through Biofuel Policy looks at the current demand and potential 2030 demand for palm oil from biofuel policies in key countries and in the aviation industry. It presents low, medium and high scenarios for the role of 2030 biofuel production in increasing demand for palm oil.
February 2021

Beyond Petrostates: The burning need to cut oil dependence in the energy transition

Carbon Tracker
This report focuses on the 40 countries with the greatest fiscal dependence on oil and gas revenues – the petrostates. These are the most oil and gas-reliant countries (as a % of GDP) and are predominantly in the Middle East, North and West Africa, and South America.
June 2015

Achieving a High-productivity, Sustainable Palm Oil Sector in Indonesia: a Landscape Management Approach

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)

A growing number of government, business and civil society, including Unilever and IDH, have a goal of transforming the Indonesian rural economy by 2020, to deliver net positive environmental impacts and improve smallholder farmer livelihoods.

September 2018

Public Cash for Oil and Gas: Mapping federal fiscal support for fossil fuels

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Canada is still the largest provider of subsidies to oil and gas production in the G7 per unit of GDP. This briefing spotlights the remaining subsidies to oil and gas production in Canada, focusing on two specific types of subsidies: direct transfers and fiscal exemptions made available to fossil fuel extraction and production.

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