Biden’s Final Climate Test: Time for Bold Action on Fossil Fuels
What we need to see from the Biden Administration before Trump takes office.
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COP29 Dispatch: The biggest stories from week 1
The first week of the UN climate negotiations just wrapped up in Azerbaijan. Our team on the ground has been working hard to push back against industry spin and pressure rich countries to pay up. Here are the highlights.
COP29 Explainer: Why we can’t rely on the private sector to finance the energy transition
Our new analysis shows many governments and finance models overstate the role the private sector can play in financing a just energy transition. This is coming to a head with the deadline for a new climate finance goal (NCQG) at COP29, where rich countries are using this outdated myth to try to get off the hook to pay their fair share for climate action.
US LNG Flies in the Face of Mainstream Climate Analysis: the Department of Energy must stop all expansion now.
Oil Change International, frontline communities, and other partners have provided ample evidence for the need to end LNG expansion. But if we needed further evidence that permitting more US LNG export capacity is a surefire way to cook the planet, we certainly got it with the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest annual report.
Diplomatic Double Dealing: Scandinavian Consul’s Oil Gambit Harms Okavango
A Norwegian oil firm's investment in controversial exploration near Botswana's Okavango Delta has sparked outrage across Scandinavia. In July 2024, the Norwegian oil and gas company BW Energy announced a partnership with the Canadian firm ReconAfrica to drill for oil in the watershed of the Kavango basin of Namibia, threatening the iconic upstream Okavango Delta of Botswana, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Southern Africa.
Protect The Deltas: New website and campaign launch
Oil companies are threatening three iconic and critically important African deltas: the Niger Delta in Nigeria, Saloum in Senegal, and Okavango in Botswana. We’re launching a new website to support the ongoing fights to protect the deltas.
Why The Department of Energy Must Reject New Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Exports
The explosive growth of the U.S. LNG sector is harming communities' health and threatening to put our climate goals out of reach.
Seeking Climate Justice: Civil Society’s Crucial Role from Courtrooms to Communities
The climate movement is turning to courts to hold corporations and governments accountable for their role in causing the climate crisis. The number of cases filed each year has nearly tripled since the Paris Agreement in 2015. With courts becoming vital battlegrounds, civil society organizations (CSOs) play a key role, pushing legal cases forward and ensuring public engagement in the critical climate debate.
If UK Labour scrapped billions for false solutions like CCS and hydrogen, it could fund pensioners’ winter fuel allowance
In the UK, despite hundreds of millions being spent and no commercial projects in operation, a further £25 billion has been promised in new subsidies for Carbon, Capture and Storage (CCS) and Hydrogen. This is greater than the supposed £22 billion black hole that the previous Conservative Government left the new Labour government. If Labour is looking for a quick fix to find money to fund the winter fuel allowance, they should scrap these wasteful handouts to the fossil fuel industry.
New look, same Oil Change International
Oil Change International has a new website and new domain name. Over the past year we’ve been hard at work redesigning everything about our website – it was our first complete website overhaul in over a decade. And with nearly 20 years of history to go through, this was a big undertaking!