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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.

It’s time to imagine a future without Shell

So can a company often vilified for being complicit in human rights abuses in Nigeria, accused of rampant pollution and ignoring the risks of climate change for decades, be central to the climate fight?

Fossil Free ADB: A new campaign targeting the Asian Development Bank

Today, we've joined with civil society groups and peoples’ movements from around the world to launch an exciting new campaign: Fossil Free ADB. The goal of the campaign is to pressure the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to stop financing fossil fuels. 

John Kerry tells Big Oil to join energy transition or “sit there with stranded assets”.

Earlier today, John Kerry, who is Joe Biden’s special envoy on climate change, warned the industry that they “don’t want to be sitting there with stranded assets. That fight is useless. You’re going to end up on the wrong side of this battle.”

Political deregulation of Texan grid to blame for near total collapse & bills of $15,000+

If shivering with cold dark for days in sub-zero temperatures was not enough for many Texans, those lucky enough to still have electricity during the recent freezing weather have been hit with exorbitant electricity bills.

Secretive Treaty allows Big Oil to sue for hundreds of billions to stop fossil fuel phase out

It’s the Treaty you have never heard of. But it’s the one that could affect your future and your children’s future.

Blame gas and coal shortages, not renewables, for Texas blackouts

The devastating deep freeze continues to cause havoc in Texas and other southern states in the United States.

Another “watershed moment” as UK’s top court rules Nigerians can sue Shell too

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that two Nigerian communities – of more than 50,000 people - can bring their legal claims for clean-up and compensation against Royal Dutch Shell and its Nigerian subsidiary in the English courts.

One in five deaths worldwide linked to fossil fuels in 2018

A new scientific study has concluded that in 2018, pollution linked to the burning of fossil fuels killed nearly nine million people that year. In perspective that's one in five people who died globally in 2018.

As Big Oil loses $70 billion in 2020, it faces a credit risk downgrade.

As Big Oil loses billions, the global ratings agency, S&P has announced it was placing ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and Total on a so-called “credit watch”.