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Norwegian Election Manifesto Analysis: How the parties shape up on oil and gas phase-out policies

As Norway heads into its parliamentary election on September 8th 2025, we analysed the manifestos of all major political parties represented in Parliament to evaluate how their proposed oil and gas policies would shift Norway’s trajectory.

COP29 Dispatch: The Biggest Stories From Week 1

The first week of the UN climate negotiations just wrapped up in Azerbaijan. Our team on the ground has been working hard to push back against industry spin and pressure rich countries to pay up. Here are the highlights.

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.

Civil Society calls on COP leaders to include unequivical fossil fuel phase-out in final declaration

We are in the business end of the COP27 negotiations, as delegates haggle over the final declaration. As I write the news from Sharm el-Sheikh regarding the all important text is deeply concerning and comprehensively flawed.

WHO calls climate change “single biggest health threat facing humanity”

As hundreds are arrested outside the White House demanding urgent action on our climate emergency, the World Health Organization has described climate change as the "single biggest health threat facing humanity," and called on governments and policymakers to "act with urgency" on the climate and health crises.

Biden’s climate diplomacy mustn’t turn a blind eye to Big Oil’s “dirty footprints” in Africa

When President Joe Biden signed his first set of Executive Orders on Climate Change and cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline project soon after his inauguration, he sent a very clear message to the global fossil fuel industry: it’s no longer going to be business-as-usual with fighting the existential threat that climate change poses to humanity.

During UN climate talks, Donald the “depraved” climate denier backs coal, oil & gas

Donald Trump swung another wrecking ball into the global effort to tackle climate change yesterday, when his administration reversed an Obama-era rule that tightened emissions on the coal industry and opened up more land to oil and gas drilling.

GCAS wrap-up: Sparking a new conversation around “climate leadership”

A new definition of climate leadership has emerged, and the public outcry is deafening, even if thus far world leaders represented at GCAS seemed to strain to avoid hearing it.

COP23: Trump’s “Clean Fossil Fuels” Panel Dismissed as “Promoting Tobacco at a Cancer Summit”

Donald Trump’s attempts to promote so called "false solutions" at the UN climate conference in Bonn backfired badly yesterday, with Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, arguing that “promoting coal at a climate summit is like promoting tobacco at a cancer summit.”