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Activists warn “don’t plunder Africa” after human rights activist is “locked out” of London energy conference

The glossy website for the African Oil Summit in London last week called the event “Africa’s premier global energy conference”. Partners included some of the biggest international oil companies such as BP, Shell, Eni, E.on and Total.

G7 meeting: 50 actions around the world call on world leaders to stop peddling fossil fuels and false solutions

Hundreds of civil society organisations from dozens of countries have taken to the streets around the world to demand that the G7 stop peddling fossil fuels to developing countries and stop promoting false solutions to the climate crisis.

Biden approves huge “carbon bomb” LNG project in Alaska

There is a new name to add to the list of catastrophic climate failures by the Biden Administration: Alaska LNG.

Climate crisis: Is it time to charge Big Oil with homicide?

A new academic study, accepted for publication in Harvard Environmental Law, asks the pertinent question about Big Oil and climate change: “Given the extreme lethality of the conduct and the awareness of the catastrophic risk on the part of fossil fuel companies, should they be charged with homicide?”

As IPCC demands urgent climate action, Pacific nations step up, but Italy and UK reach new lows as rogue climate states

Yesterday, the message from the world’s leading climate scientists was their most brutal and stark yet. It was unequivocal.

“Read my lips”: Biden blows up campaign pledge to approve the Willow “carbon bomb” in the Arctic

In one of his most controversial decisions so far, President Biden yesterday approved the Willow oil and gas mega-project on the Alaskan North Slope.

Climate activists challenge ideological British Government “hooked on hydrocarbons”

Yesterday marked the end of the Conservative’s Annual conference, held in the city of Birmingham. The tradition for any political conference is that the party leader gives a speech at the end of the conference.

Hurricane Ian: Experts believe climate change added $10 billion worth of damage

Although the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is far from over, it is already leaving a lethal legacy. Six days on from Hurricane Ian landing in Florida, the full extent of the deadly damage wrought by the monster storm is becoming more apparent by the day.

Climate criminals meet in Brussels as explosive documents show Big Oil’s climate pledges are based on spin and “deception”

This morning in the luxurious Plaza Hotel in Brussels, many of the world top oil firms assembled for a conference on “Go Net Zero Energy.” But newly released internal documents reveal that Big Oil messaging on climate change and net zero are based on spin and "deception".

New study suggests we are heading for 2-3 degrees warming, making “climate tipping points” irreversible

Last week, a new scientific report was published looking at climate tipping points. As one of the authors notes: “The world is heading towards 2-3C of global warming. This sets Earth on course to cross multiple dangerous tipping points that will be disastrous for people across the world".