PROFILE AND STATEMENT OF Richard Heede Climate Accountability Institute 7 August 2018 Preliminary Matters Richard Heede leads Climate Accountability Institute’s disruptive “Carbon Majors” project, which traces carbon dioxide and methane emissions to the largest corporations that produce and market carbon fuels worldwide. The initial work was published in Climatic Change in 2014 with a lead story in The Guardian. Rick has analyzed potential emissions from oil, gas, and coal companies’ proven reserves vis-à-vis the remaining carbon budget, and with colleagues has modeled the temperature and sea level rise attributable to major carbon producers (Ekwurzel). Rick is analyzing how a responsible oil & gas company can align production and investment strategies with the Paris Accord’s ≤2°C pathway, updating “Carbon Majors,” and quantifying the carbon intensity of oil & gas company supply chains. CAI was founded in 2011 to provide the scientific basis for leveraging climate stewardship by oil, gas, and coal producers. Rick published his thesis A Geography of Carbon with National Center for Atmospheric Research in 1984, worked on energy efficiency and climate mitigation with Rocky Mountain Institute 19842001. He created the consultancy Climate Mitigation Services in 2001 to inventory corporations, industrial facilities, municipalities, households, and aviation emissions. He has designed and built a low-carbon passive solar rammed earth house at 2,300 m in the Rocky Mountains. To offset his carbon savings he flies a 1958 Cessna 182. Rick at INET conference, October 2017, Edinburgh. Richard Heede heede@climateaccountability.org Climate Accountability Institute www.climateaccountability.org 1626 Gateway Road, Snowmass, Colorado, 81654, USA +1-970-343-0707