We are excited to launch Redline - Research Database for Litigation against New fossil fuel Extraction. Its aim is to arm litigators with the latest research relevant to factual claims underpinning fossil fuel litigation: @ucl @st_pye redlinedatabase.org
@ucl @st_pye @mlaz_sei @SEI_Erickson @climateploy @RDNS_TAI @ClimateSSN @beyondoilgas @PriceofOil @fossiltreaty @Greenpeace @Tzeporah The database contains over 50 legally-relevant summaries of scholarly journal articles and reports, with links to open access versions of the article/report. These can be found via the search function. Here's an example:
@ucl @st_pye @mlaz_sei @SEI_Erickson @climateploy @RDNS_TAI @ClimateSSN @beyondoilgas @PriceofOil @fossiltreaty @Greenpeace @Tzeporah @UCL_Energy These paper-summaries are grouped into browsable "categories" representing distinct issues that (do our could) arise in fossil fuel litigation. You can also find our article summaries by browsing these categories:
@ucl @st_pye @mlaz_sei @SEI_Erickson @climateploy @RDNS_TAI @ClimateSSN @beyondoilgas @PriceofOil @fossiltreaty @Greenpeace @Tzeporah @UCL_Energy @DrSimEvans @pilitaclark @NaomiOreskes @catabreu_ @KevinClimate @CarolineLucas @ThierryAaron @juliadehm Each category has its own landing page, providing an overview of the issue and the articles in our database relevant to that issue, with references to key legal cases where applicable. Here's an example:
@ucl @st_pye @mlaz_sei @SEI_Erickson @climateploy @RDNS_TAI @ClimateSSN @beyondoilgas @PriceofOil @fossiltreaty @Greenpeace @Tzeporah @UCL_Energy @DrSimEvans @pilitaclark @NaomiOreskes @catabreu_ @KevinClimate @CarolineLucas @ThierryAaron @juliadehm @BenFranta @CampanaleMark @kjellkuehne @sianebradley @FuelOnTheFire @PeterJNewell_ @AngelaVCarter @BlondeelMathieu Redline adds a new tool to a rapidly-expanding, global ecosystem of online platforms to support climate-related litigation and legal analysis. To aid users in navigating this ecosystem, we describe and link to these other resources (do let us know if we're missing anything!)
We're keen to hear feedback from users - what's missing? What could be improved? What additional categories or papers should we include? Any errors you noticed? Also, what additional functionality would like to see in a future version? Contact us via redlinedatabase.org/pages/contact-…
The project, which I co-led with @st_pye, could not have happened without our amazing database team: @darrenmoore and Pooja Upadhyay. The project was generously funded by @ucl @GrandChallenges, and supported by @uclspp and @UCL_Energyredlinedatabase.org/pages/about-us
We're also grateful to our project partners, @Earthjustice, @friends_earth, Climate Litigation Network (a project of @urgenda; @lucysmaxwell), and Uplift (@tessakhan) for their generous input and support of the project, and to @harrovanasselt for reviewing our category pages.
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Our new research in @sciencemagazine shows that no new fossil fuel projects are needed to meet energy demand in scenarios limiting warming to 1.5°C. We need bans & advocacy to build a #NoNewFossil norm @OlivierBvK @st_pye @FuelOnTheFire @ucl @IISD_Energydoi.org/10.1126/scienc…
We make the case in three steps. First, we show that existing* fossil fuel capacity is sufficient to meet energy demand implied in a wide range of scenarios for limiting climate warming to 1.5°C (* in some scenarios, incl. projects under development, in construction or permitted)
We first consider gas and oil extraction (we do not consider coal extraction due to data limitations), and here are the results...