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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.

Congo's vital rainforest and peatlands are to face destruction from 52 new oil blocks. This plunder is likely to fuel conflict and displacement, enriching Big Oil Companies and complicit leaders. The DRC cannot be a sacrifice zone. We need to protect this lifeline.

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. 

The disconnect is terrifyingly stark. Last week, the Guardian newspaper reported that the “World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target”, with the planet heading for at least 2.5C of warming “with disastrous results for humanity."

Last month, it was widely reported that another chapter in Shell’s dirty and disastrous eighty-seven-year operations in the Niger Delta was coming to an end, with the company selling its onshore business.

A majority of UK residents believe it's unacceptable for politicians to receive donations from fossil fuel companies, according to a recent poll.

Amongst the barrage of near-constant lousy news on the climate, from record rain bombs and flooding to relentless heat domes and wildfires, comes historic great news.

It's that time of year again when the oil industry has to face its shareholders and investors in public: AGM season. Over the coming days, Big Oil executives will have to respond to questions about how they are reconciling the plans for expanding fossil fuel growth with their public commitments on climate change.

It is a gruesome milestone. A year after Russia’s brutal and bloody invasion of Ukraine, the ripples of war have spread across the globe. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed, along with over a hundred thousand Ukrainian and Russian soldiers.

There is universal condemnation today on the breaking news that the United Arab Emirates has appointed a veteran oil industry insider to preside over the upcoming UN climate talks that will happen later this year in Dubai. "By appointing an oil sultan as COP28 President, the UAE takes the prize for global trust breaker in a climate crisis.”