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African Energies Summit: Exposing the Colonial Energy Conference in London

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."

Just weeks after COP28, ADNOC’s oil and gas expansion plans “gain momentum”

Just weeks after the COP28 climate talks finished, it is business as usual for the host country, the United Arab Emirates, in expanding its oil and gas production.

Gaza: Any sustainable solution means ending the Occupation, with Palestine controlling its own resources

Israel's brutal, bloody war on Gaza shows no sign of relenting, with nearly all the Gazan population displaced and Israel warning the war could go on for another year.

Australia’s largest-ever civil disobedience protest stops half a million tonnes of coal exports

They are calling it the largest civil disobedience climate protest in the history of Australia. This weekend, thousands of activists, young and old, from across the country descended on the world’s largest coal port at Muloobinba (Newcastle), on Awabakal and Worimi land and water.

28 Years Later – Shell still trying to crush opposition

The oil giant Shell spends millions of dollars each year to anticipate the future to try and predict the unpredictable. In a corporate game of crystal-ball gazing, Shell likes to play the long game, looking decades into the future to predict upcoming geopolitical or technological trends.

APEC summit: “Don’t trade away our future,” says civil society, demanding urgent action on climate

Starting this Saturday, the US will host the Asia Pacific Economic Forum (APEC) Leaders’ Week in San Francisco, entitled “Creating a Resilient and Sustainable Future for All.” 

“Staggering. Unnerving. Bewildering.” Scientists alarmed as September smashes temperature records

Over the northern hemisphere summer that has been dominated by floods, fires, and unrelenting heat, with temperature records being regularly smashed, climate scientists have become increasingly alarmed.

Vietnam: OCI stands in solidarity with Hoang Thi Minh Hong and Ngo Thi To Nhien

The wheels of oppression have turned again. We have known for a while that Vietnam has been systematically silencing its environmental critics under false pretenses.

A day after IEA calls for no new oil and gas development, UK approves vast Rosebank oil field

Barely is the ink dry on the IEA’s report which called for no new oil and gas development, and yet today, the UK Government gave the go-ahead to the huge Rosebank oil field, which is seen as the UK’s last untapped oil field.

Wow! Just Wow! 700 marches, 600,000 people on 7 continents demand #EndFossilFuels

The turnout wildly exceeded expectations, proof that this summer's record heat, mega floods, and severe weather are putting the climate crisis, and the fight against fossil fuels, at the forefront of peoples' minds. The turnout was global.