Global Energy Monitor

Global Energy Monitor (GEM) is a San Francisco-based non-governmental organization which catalogs fossil fuel and renewable energy projects worldwide. GEM shares information in support of clean energy and its data and reports on energy trends are widely cited by governments, media, and academic researchers.[1]

Global Energy Monitor
AbbreviationGEM
Formation2008 (2008)
Typenon-governmental organization
Legal status501(c)(3) organization
Purposeresearch and analysis
HeadquartersSan Francisco, United States
Region served
Worldwide
Executive Director
Ted Nace
Staff
40-50
Websiteglobalenergymonitor.org/
Formerly called
Coalswarm

History

Ted Nace, a writer and environmentalist, founded Global Energy Monitor in 2008. Originally named "Coalswarm", and affiliated with Earth Island Institute, it created a tracker database of global coal-fired power stations that became "widely respected" by academic researchers, media outlets, and governments.[2] In 2018, GEM became an independent organization and expanded coverage to include natural gas pipelines, steel plants, coal mines, and renewable energy infrastructures.

Research

Global Energy Monitor produces datasets that document energy infrastructures at the project level. This data is used by a variety of organizations, governments, media outlets, and academic institutions, including Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International Energy Agency, Rystad Energy, Oxfam, Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis|Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), Istanbul Policy Center, Mercator Research Center, Pembina Institute, Rocky Mountain Institute, Urgewald, World Wide Fund for Nature, Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), and International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG), among others.[3]

References
  1. "North American drilling boom threatens big blow to climate efforts, study finds". The Guardian. 25 April 2019.
  2. "The race to build a better battery". RN. 2 March 2019.
  3. "Global 'collapse' in number of new coal-fired power plants". The Guardian. 28 March 2019.

Further reading

Major reports
  • Boom and Bust (2020)
  • Gambling On Gas: Risks Grow For Japan's $20 Billion LNG Financing Spree (2020)
  • Gas Bubble 2020: Tracking Global LNG Infrastructure (2020)
  • How Plans for New Coal Are Changing Around the World (2019)
  • A Coal Phase-Out Pathway for 1.5 °C (2018)

Fossil fuel trackers
  • Global Coal Mine Tracker - Global Coal Mine Tracker documents existing, proposed, cancelled, and closed coal mines and projects worldwide.[3]
  • Global Coal Finance Tracker - Global Coal Finance Tracker surveys the financial institutions, both publicly and privately owned, that have provided funding for coal-fired power stations since 2010.[4]
  • Global Fossil Infrastructure Tracker - Global Fossil Infrastructure Tracker aggregates information on oil and gas projects such as pipelines and terminals.[5]
  • Europe Gas Tracker - Europe Gast Tracker is a comprehensive dataset of fossil gas infrastructure across the European Union.[6]

External reading
  • Thurber, Mark (2019). Coal. Polity Press. ISBN 978-1509514014.

See also
  1. "Coal's end game: The dirtiest fossil fuel is on the back foot". The Economist. 3 December 2020.
  2. Harvey, Fiona (26 April 2022). "Too many new coal-fired plants planned for 1.5C climate goal, report concludes". The Guardian. London, United Kingdom. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
  3. "Hundreds of planned coal mines 'incompatible with 1.5C target'". Carbon Brief. 10 June 2021.
  4. "Malaysian bank to phase out coal finance, in a victory for campaigners foot". Climate Home News. 12 August 2020.
  5. "North America driving global oil and gas pipeline 'boom'". Phys.org. 15 April 2019.
  6. "Gas leaks—and it's worse than we thought". NRDC. 16 December 2020.
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