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As Millions March for the Climate, Big Oil Rewards Boss with $22 Million Pay-Packet

As the young march, Big Oil carries on as usual - rewarding its senior executives with obscene amounts of money for destroying the very future the young are fighting for.

Standing in Solidarity with the Global #SchoolStrike4Climate

Tomorrow, in some hundred countries, in over one thousand cities, young people from around the world will walk out of their schools and colleges in the tens of thousands and join the first ever global School Strike for Climate.

“Shockwaves” as Norway’s $1Trill wealth fund plans to disinvest from upstream oil

The beginning of the end of the age of oil moved a step closer today

Yet Another Nail in UK Fracking Industry as Gov. Guidelines Ruled “Unlawful”

The UK’s fledgling fracking industry was dealt another significant nail in its coffin today when the High Court ruled that the current guidance from the Government on shale gas is “unlawful”.

“Major Blow” to Tar Sands Industry As Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline Delayed

The Canadian tar sands industry has suffered another significant setback trying to get is carbon intensive product to market in the US.

As evidence of man-made global warming hits ‘gold standard’, Robert Mercer continues funding denialists

One of the world’s most secretive billionaires is still pouring millions into climate denial, despite scientists concluding we have reached the “gold standard” linking human activity to climate change.

Do we Slowly Boil Like Frogs or Break the Climate Silence?

So do we continue our climate denial and slowly boil like frogs or do we act now in the radical way that is needed to avoid a climate emergency?

Instead of Funding Fossil Fuels Overseas, UK Gov. Urged to Declare “Climate Emergency”

Tomorrow Greg Muttitt, the Research Director at Oil Change International will give evidence to the UK’s parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee, which is investigating the scale and impact of UK Export Finance’s financing of fossil fuels in developing countries.

RIP Wally Broecker, the “grandfather of climate science”

“The climate system is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks,” so wrote Wallace “Wally” Broecker, a leading climate scientist, who is widely credited with coining the phrase “global warming”, and who died this week.

Ten Days Left For Kids to #JoinJuliana in #YouthvGov Lawsuit

Zero Hour, a youth-led climate justice organization, has launched a nationwide drive to get thousands of young people to add their names to the Juliana Plaintiffs.