Urgewald

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Urgewald

Established	1992  (32 years ago)
Legal status	registered association
Headquarters	Sassenberg
Membership	44 (2021)
Revenue	2,243,117 Euro (2019)
Website	urgewald.org/english

Urgewald is a group that researches coal companies,^[1][2][3][4] because they are among the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and so cause climate change.^{[5][6][7][8][9]} The Global Coal Exit List, which they publish, is famous.^[10]

Urgewald provided analysis to underpin a Guardian newspaper exposé on the "scores of vast projects" that the oil and gas majors are planning as of May 2022^[update]. If only a fraction of these projects proceed to exploitation, the consequences for the global climate will still be huge.^[11]