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Major Mining Companies are Among Largest Polluters

By Richard Mann, Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - As many as 100 companies are responsible for more than 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions since 1988.

These include some of the world's mining companies: BHP, Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Glencore, and Teck Resources. Vale is not listed in the map drawn up by the Decolonial Atlas website.

The map, led by oil companies and coal producers engaged in energy production, was drawn up from information released by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CFP) in July 2017.

The 25 largest polluters, responsible for 50 percent of CO2 emissions, are . . .

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