Gigantic floods, catastrophic hurricanes, devastating fires, and horrific heatwaves are happening all around the world. At the same time, investors make gigantic profits from investing in fossil fuel companies which are causing this climate crisis.
At COP28 in Dubai, the international community agreed to “transition away” from fossil fuels. In May 2024, however, over 7,500 institutional investors still held bonds and shares in coal, oil, and gas companies to the tune of $5.1 trillion. This website is a tool for citizens’ movements, customers and regulators to hold pension funds, insurers, and asset managers accountable.
This finance research report is published by Urgewald and co-published by 17 NGO partners. The finance research was conducted by the not-for-profit company Profundo.
Complementary to Investing in Climate Chaos, the joint NGO report Banking on Climate Chaos shows bank's financing for the fossil fuel industry. Urgewald's research on all coal banks worldwide is available on the Still Banking on Coal website.
Further analyses of the listed financial institutions’ fossil fuel policies can be found in the Coal Policy Tracker and the Oil & Gas Policy Tracker of Reclaim Finance.
Urgewald‘s databases of the fossil fuel industry identify the coal, oil and gas companies destroying our planet. They contain comprehensive company-level information on the whole coal, oil and gas industry.
The Global Oil & Gas Exit List (GOGEL) is the most comprehensive publicly available database on the oil and gas industry. GOGEL 2023 covers 1,622 companies active in oil and gas production, and that are developing LNG terminals, oil or gas pipelines, and gas-fired power plants. Companies listed on GOGEL account for 95% of global oil and gas production.
The Global Coal Exit List (GCEL) includes 1,433 companies and their subsidiaries and joint ventures. Their activities range from coal mining, trading and transport to the conversion of coal to liquids, the operation of coal-fired power stations and the manufacturing of equipment for new coal plants. 95% of the companies on GCEL are not transitioning. Over 577 companies on GCEL are still developing new coal power plants, new coal mines, or new coal transport infrastructure. Up to now, only 71 companies have announced a coal exit date.