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“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.

“Reparations, not investments” — Shereen Talaat on climate debt, reparations and public finance

In the second episode of Burned: The Price of Oil, host Shady Khalil speaks with Shereen Talaat, Founder and Director of MENA Fem Movement to explore the global financial system’s deep colonial roots - and how private-finance-first approaches to the energy transition trap Global South countries in more debt and fossil fuel dependence. 

COP30 Week One Wrap Up

The path to 1.5ºC depends on what’s decided here in Belém and whether the world will stand with people or polluters.

Burned: The Price Of Oil – a new limited podcast series

In this new limited podcast series, host Shady Khalil has candid conversations with global climate leaders to pull back the curtain on the true cost of fossil fuels and the villains blocking climate action - and how people-powered movements are forging the path towards a just and equitable transition that leaves no one behind.

Join the People’s Climate Agreement with Lush and help create a fair, fossil-free future

Lush is donating 75% of profits from their new body bar to OCI and aligned groups this Climate Week — available now in stores and online!

Planet Wreckers: Top Global North Countries Responsible for nearly 70% of projected new oil and gas expansion to 2035

Four Global North countries - the United States, Canada, Norway, and Australia - are responsible for nearly 70% of projected new oil and gas expansion from 2025 to 2035. If this oil and gas expansion is allowed to proceed, it would lock in climate chaos and an unlivable future.

Countries have a choice: LNG or energy security

While all countries agreed to transition away from fossil fuels at UN climate talks in Dubai in 2023, fossil fuel interests are peddling massive LNG expansion under the guise of fulfilling energy security needs - creating a roadblock to a just and equitable transition to renewable energy that we urgently need. 

A Celebration of Change: Journey to a Fossil Free Tomorrow

2025 is OCI's 20th Anniversary. To celebrate, we're hosting an event in Oakland, California on April 19th.

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.

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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.