World’s Largest Oil Exporter Invests in US Shale Gas
The world’s largest oil exporter has signalled that it is investing in the world’s largest shale play. And that can only be further bad news for the climate.
Andy Rowell
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UK: Child poverty the “new normal,” as oil industry gets billions in subsidies
We live in a climate emergency, British children live in poverty in record numbers. Young people rightly care about climate change in ever increasingly numbers. It does not have to be this way. The solution is there, we just need the political will to make it happen. We need a just transition now.
415 ppm: We Are all Part of Exxon’s Unchartered Climate Experiment Now
We are all now a living experiment. Never before in human history have carbon dioxide levels reached 415 parts per million.
“Flygskam”: Why People are Stopping Flying to Help Save the Climate
In Sweden, flying is becoming the new tobacco, and there is increasingly a feeling of “Flygskam" or “flight shame”.
UK Parliamentarians call for “radical action” placing climate change at centre of aid spending
An influential British parliamentary committee has castigated the UK Government - which is paralysed by Brexit – for failing to respond adequately to the climate crisis as well as failing to reflect the urgency of that crisis in the way it funds development and climate-related projects abroad.
As one million species head for extinction, urgent need to tackle climate change & biodiversity loss
“Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history — and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely"