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The Iran Crisis Is Exposing Japan’s Flawed Energy Strategy. Southeast Asia is Paying the Price.

The Iran crisis is now exposing that vulnerability in real time, as LNG prices across Asia have nearly doubled within weeks. But this isn’t just Japan’s problem. Through years of state-backed financing, Japan has exported the same risky energy model across Southeast Asia

2025 Annual Report

Around the world, there is political instability, escalating fossil fuel expansion, and growing pressure on communities fighting for a just transition – driven in large part by the greed of the few – led by the oil and gas industry. In the face of escalating injustice and threats to our health and environment, the work we did together laid the critical groundwork for what’s ahead. And through it all, we remained grounded in the fight for justice that has driven us for the past 20 years.

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Trump’s War on Iran: As People Are Killed, Big Oil’s Windfall Will Deepen Our Energy Affordability Crisis

Trump’s illegal war with Iran has already taken a devastating human toll. It could also mean higher energy bills worldwide, while fossil fuel companies, traders and investors get rich.

People gather in NYC to protest Trump's aggression in Venezuela.

El arrebato imprudente de Trump por el poder, la riqueza y el petróleo en Venezuela

Se trata, sin ambigüedades, de imperialismo impulsado por los combustibles fósiles. 

People gather in NYC to protest Trump's aggression in Venezuela.

Trump’s reckless grab for power, riches, and oil in Venezuela

This is fossil-fueled imperialism, plain and simple.

“I believe my voice makes a difference” — Tina Eonemto Stege on climate commitments and keeping 1.5°C alive

In this episode of Burned: The Price of Oil, host Shady Khalil speaks with Tina Eonemto Stege, Climate Envoy for the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Tina reflects on the United Nations climate talks in Belém, Brazil, from the hard fights to the fragile breakthroughs of the COP30 climate negotiations.

The UK Licensing Ban: How We Won, How We Build On It

The UK officially announced a North Sea licensing ban on 26 November, 2025. While it was a hard fought win and a necessary first step, it still has a long way to go. Read the analysis from Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth Scotland and Platform.

“We cannot go to the sea now.” Massive Japanese fossil fuel project destroys Bangladeshi communities and worsens climate crisis

Japan’s development agency, Japan International Cooperation Agency, destroyed communities & livelihoods in Bangladesh with its $4 billion Matarbari coal power plant. Now they are pushing for gas & other fossil fuel technologies. But local fisherfolk and farmers are standing up to stop fossil expansion.

“We are fighting for a life of dignity for our people” — Dipti Bhatnagar on Empire, Resistance to Fossil Fuel Companies, and Just Futures

In this episode of Burned: The Price of Oil, Shady Khalil speaks with Dipti Bhatnagar, climate justice organizer with Justiça Ambiental (Friends of the Earth Mozambique) and Executive Committee member of Friends of the Earth International. Dipti shares her 25-year journey organizing across India, the U.S., and Mozambique, connecting struggles from anti-dam movements to anti-colonial resistance, rooted in a vision of collective care, dignity, and justice.

“We need a globally just transition” – Dr. Amiera Sawas on Climate Colonialism and Global Justice

In this episode of Burned: The Price of Oil, host Shady Khalil speaks with Dr. Amiera Sawas about her decades of experience working at the intersection of climate change, gender justice, and decolonial movements to expose the structural injustices fueling the climate crisis, and the feminist, global majority-led solutions forging the path ahead.