Who owns the world’s energy & heavy industry infrastructure — and what can that data reveal?

Join our upcoming webinar introducing GEM’s Global #EnergyOwnership Tracker, a dataset mapping 48k+ assets & 26k+ companies worldwide.

🗓 Nov 5 | 11am EST / 4pm UTC
🔗 Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Australia is moving forwards with plans to create a public beneficial ownership register to show who really owns or controls companies as well as collecting information on trusts ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/an...

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Nominee companies act as middlemen, masking the real investors behind Australia’s biggest polluters.

With no regulation of nominee shareholding, fossil fuel ownership remains hidden — and accountability out of reach.

📊 Full analysis: globalenergymonitor.org/report/the-f...

Corporate ‘middlemen’ mask who really profits from Australian fossil fuel projects, report warns www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

@theguardian.com coverage of @globalenergymon.bsky.social’s latest report using its Global Energy Ownership Tracker data

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Who really owns 🇦🇺 ’s fossil fuel projects?

A new GEM analysis shows nominee branches of JP Morgan, Citibank & HSBC are listed as shareholders for 50+ coal, oil & gas projects obscuring project ownership.

+ emitting as much CO₂ as 4.4M Australian households.

Lack of regulation leads to nominee shareholding hiding who really profits from Australia’s coal, oil, and gas assets.

50+ fossil fuel projects are connected to Australian nominee companies.

Nominee companies are middlemen in corporate ownership — They hold shares in name only, masking the identity of the actual owners.

Excited to share GEM’s new report on how nominee companies hide the real owners of Australia’s fossil fuel projects.

Nominee branches of JPMorgan, Citibank & HSBC are connected to firms emitting 22m tonnes of CO₂/yr — equal to 4.4m Australian households.

🔗 globalenergymonitor.org/report/the-f...

I'll be co-presenting with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation about our initiative integrating the LEI into @globalenergymon.bsky.social Global Energy Ownership Tracker

INTRODUCING A NEW TOOL: Visualize the air pollution impacting 1.6 billion people in over 2,500 urban areas from the world’s top emitters of climate- and health-harming pollution.

Make the connection at ClimateTRACE.org/air-pollution.

🚨 New data: GEM’s Global #Bioenergy Power Tracker now covers 115 GW of operating capacity across 3,850 units in 116 countries.

China & Brazil lead the way — together holding 53 GW, w/China alone making up nearly 1/3 of global capacity.

🔗 Explore the dataset: globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...