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Pressure grows on Vietnam to release environmental defenders jailed on trumped up tax charges

There is growing international pressure on Vietnam to release three environmental activists who have been imprisoned in the country on trumped up tax-related charges. We urge you to take action to persuade the Vietnamese authorities to release the activists and safeguard the rights of human rights defenders in Vietnam.

Tell the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) to stop funding the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

If completed, EACOP will pose significant risks to millions of people; jeopardize vital, internationally recognized ecosystems; and, at peak production, generate annual carbon emissions roughly equivalent to the carbon footprint of nine coal-fired power plants.

Evidence from America shows fracking in the UK will not be safe

Just as the U.S. oil and gas industry is looking to exploit the Ukraine war to expand exploitation of shale gas, so too is the European shale gas industry. 

In latest setback, Shell suspends seismic activity in South Africa after court ruling

In the latest setback for the oil giant, Shell has had to terminate the contract for the seismic ship that was due to undertake highly controversail exploration off South Africa's wild coast, after a court ruled at the end of December that Shell had not adequately consulted the local community.

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.

Canada condemned for violent pipeline raids on unceded Gidimt’en territory during climate disaster

Justin Trudeau’s Government is facing increasingy international condemnation for the treatment of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation and their allies who are blockading the proposed 670-km Coastal Gas Link pipeline, which is being built on unceded First Nations' land and despite scientists saying we cannot burn any more oil and gas.  

COP 26 host, the UK, called “climate laggard” for failing to join Beyond Oil and 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..

WHO calls climate change “single biggest health threat facing humanity”

As hundreds are arrested outside the White House demanding urgent action on our climate emergency, the World Health Organization has described climate change as the "single biggest health threat facing humanity," and called on governments and policymakers to "act with urgency" on the climate and health crises.

Global Climate Strike builds pressure on politicians to act at COP26

With less than forty days to go until the crucial climate conference, COP26, to be held in Glasgow, young climate activists from across the world made their voices heard loud and clear on Friday.

Shell gags British Museum in greenwashing sponsorship deal

Oil giant Shell continues to excel as a climate villain, happy to drive humanity beyond the limits of a liveable future. And now it has been caught "gagging" the British Museum in a major greenwashing sponsorship exhibition on climate change.