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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.

“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.

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Shell Shocked Land — new documentary to remember the Ogoni 9

After thirty years, the fight for environmental justice is as strong as ever in the Niger Delta.

Solidarity and Strength: Asia-Pacific Unites Against Japan’s AZEC Greenwashing

The Global Days of Action during the AZEC Summit shows that civil society across the Asia-Pacific is watching and organizing to stop Japan from derailing the region’s energy transition. From grassroots activists to parliamentarians, from frontline communities to researchers, a regional movement demands AZEC live up to its "zero emissions" name.

Very Tasty Squids, The Climate Crisis, and Japan’s Fossil Fuel Expansion in Indonesia

Japanese-funded Batang coal power plant threatens the livelihoods of communities in Indonesia.