Despite COVID-19, activists will still pressure Shell over climate failure at AGM tomorrow
Despite COVID-19, activists plan to protest about Shell's climate failure at its Annual General Meeting tomorrow.
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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.
Now is the Time to Flatten the Climate Curve Too
As we transition out of the pandemic we need to transition out of fossil fuels too. We have the science. We have the knowledge. We have the expertise. And now we have to change.
New Permian Methane Leakage Study Confirms What We Already Knew
A new study published last week confirms what we already knew about oil and gas in the Permian Basin. It's an unmitigated disaster.
Oil and gas news & insights: Week of April 20
OCI is producing weekly news and resources updates for allies as part of our response to the COVID-19 crisis.
COVID-19 fallout threatens “long-term survivability” of Big Oil
Big Oil faces a new reality where "everything has changed.” Even their long-term survival.
Oil and gas news & insights: Week of April 13
OCI is producing weekly news and resources updates for allies as part of our response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Due to lack of oversight, methane emissions “could actually increase during pandemic”
A day after meeting big oil bosses at the White House last Friday, Donald Trump was at his usual chest-thumbing best defending an industry he loves: “I am a big believer in our great energy business, and we’re going to take care of our energy business,” he said at a press conference.
Not an April Fool’s: Canadians to fund USD $5 billion KXL pipeline in middle of global pandemic
It would make a great April Fools joke. Investing $5 billion in a product that is nearly worthless in the middle of a global pandemic, which puts communities and construction workers at risk. Make sense to you? No, of course it doesn’t. You would reply: “Don’t be so stupid! That must be a joke.”
Putting clean energy stimulus at the heart of IEA analysis?
People all over the world are facing unprecedented crises from COVID-19. These tragic impacts will be the deepest in the world’s most vulnerable communities, regions and countries. IEA director Dr. Fatih Birol has urged governments worldwide to place clean energy at the heart of stimulus. Here Dr. Birol is right - but making this clean energy call count with real ambition is critical if the IEA wants to shake its reputation as a shill for the fossil fuel sector.