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COVID-19 Just Recovery: Instead of breaking the “climate-finance doom loop,” governments pour billions into fossil fuels

We have leading experts warning that trillions could be at stake as the fossil fuel industry suffers a terminal and structural decline, but all governments do is pour billions more away on fossil fuels in COVID-19 recovery plans. It is nonsensical. There should be no Big Oil & Gas bailout.

Historic milestones reached in US and UK as renewables trounce coal

For years, coal lobbyists have been saying we needed the dirty fossil fuel for when the wind didn’t blow or the sun didn’t shine. We always knew that was a lie. For years, Donald Trump tried to prop up a dying industry. And now the market has proved them both wrong. And there will be no going back.

Post COVID-19, the public demands a cleaner, healthier future, but politicians fund fossil fuels

So the public want change for a post-COVID-19 future, towards a cleaner, fairer, greener society. Whereas politicians want to remain stuck in our polluted past. It is time to make our voices heard.

Outgoing BP Executive Would Rather See BP Survive, Than the Planet

Decades after BP became aware about the serious consequences of climate change, and as the world faces a climate emergency, the company's outgoing boss, Bob Dudley, seems more content about saving BP, than the planet itself.

Pressure Grows on EDF to Pioneer “Just Transition” From Oil to Wind in UK

The energy company EDF is coming under intense pressure in Scotland to help pioneer a “just transition” from oil to renewables by investing in wind turbine manufacture in the UK, rather than outsourcing the work to Asia.

UK: Child poverty the “new normal,” as oil industry gets billions in subsidies

We live in a climate emergency, British children live in poverty in record numbers. Young people rightly care about climate change in ever increasingly numbers. It does not have to be this way. The solution is there, we just need the political will to make it happen. We need a just transition now.

Fund Managers Worth $10 Trillion: “Writing on the wall for oil companies”

“The writing is on the wall for oil companies that do not support global efforts to avoid a climate catastrophe by urgently phasing out fossil fuels and transitioning to a low-carbon world."

Minnesota Teenagers Table Green New Deal Bill to Transform the State’s Economy and Stop Fossil Fuel Build-Out

Minnesota's new bill, which would stop the buildout of fossil fuel infrastructure, is a critical piece of the overall Green New Deal puzzle – in order to address climate climate crisis, we must be actively winding down the fossil fuel industry by stopping its expansion and phasing out existing infrastructure with an equitable transition.

“Shovel Ready” Renewables Offers to Fill Nuclear Hole in UK Energy Policy

As yet another British nuclear plant is scrapped, the renewables industry says it is ready to come to the rescue to help the UK deliver low carbon energy.

Forty-Five Years after the Start of the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, Renewable Energy Has Tripled

An analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign of both historic and recent data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) suggests that while progress has been made on some fronts since the 1973 Arab oil embargo, in other ways America's energy situation may have actually worsened over the past 45 years.