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Climate Hope: Will Australia’s new Prime Minister go from climate laggard to leader?

Yesterday, Australia's liberal Labor Party secured enough seats to hold an outright majority in the House, as the counting of votes continued ten days on from the historic election.

Oil Change International submits evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee

The UK House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee have launched a inquiry into Accelerating the transition from fossil fuels and securing energy supplies, which is scrutinising the UK Government’s Energy Security Strategy and its North Sea Transition Deal (for oil and gas production in the UK’s Continental Shelf). Oil Change International submitted the following evidence for the committee.

Shell AGM: Company accused of “hot air” and “causing extreme harms” on climate

Today is Shell’s AGM, where the company will try and spin to its shareholders and the wider public that it is leading the climate fight and race to net zero. But its all a climate charade. Its all a lie.

As killer heat spreads, scientists warn the window for securing 1.5 degrees is narrowing

Leading climate scientists have revealed that there is a “very strong likelihood” that one of the next five years will be the warmest on record and that the chance of at least one of the next five year’s exceeding 1.5°C is rapidly increasing.

American gas lobby spins Ukraine crisis to push for expansion of dirty US LNG

There are always those who will want to profit from war or the threat of war, as unscrupulous as it may seem. And for the American oil and gas industry there is no exception.

Climate hypocrite: Norway has opened up billions of barrels of new oil and gas resources

A new briefing released today by OCI reveals that over the last ten years Norway, which calls itself a climate leader, has become Europe’s “most aggressive explorer for new oil and gas.” It is climate hypocrisy..

Despite still holding the COP Presidency, UK Government approves new oil field

Just weeks after hosting the COP26 summit, and despite still holding the COP Presidency, Boris Johnson’s government has given the go ahead for the Abigail oil and gas field off the east coast of Scotland.

Despite climate emergency, the United States, Canada, and Norway “pumping more oil than ever”

Last year the world’s leading climate scientists, the IPCC,  issued a “code red” for humanity and outlined how we had to stop oil and gas drilling if we wanted a liveable future. But still we drill. Take three countries who like to see themselves as climate leaders...

UK Gov. urged to speed up just transition as Cambo oil field is “paused”

Climate campaigners in the UK are celebrating further good news today after it was reported that the firm behind the highly controversial Cambo oil field off the Shetland islands are "pausing" the project.

COP 26 host, the UK, called “climate laggard” for failing to join Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance

When the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance members were unveiled yesterday, there was an obvious one missing: the COP host, the UK Government. To put it mildly this is a disgrace for a country that keeps trying to argue that it is leading the way on climate..