'Drivers and sufferers': How top fossil fuel producers are among those with 'most to lose' from climate change

James Murray
clock • 6 min read
'Drivers and sufferers': How top fossil fuel producers are among those with 'most to lose' from climate change

Major new analysis from Verisk Maplecroft highlights how many of the world's leading fossil fuel exporters are exposed to potentially disastrous climate risks

The annual UN climate talks are often characterised as a geopolitical tussle between the world's leading petrostates and everyone else. There is some truth in this binary division between the root cause...

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