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28 Years Later – Shell still trying to crush opposition

The oil giant Shell spends millions of dollars each year to anticipate the future to try and predict the unpredictable. In a corporate game of crystal-ball gazing, Shell likes to play the long game, looking decades into the future to predict upcoming geopolitical or technological trends.

APEC summit: “Don’t trade away our future,” says civil society, demanding urgent action on climate

Starting this Saturday, the US will host the Asia Pacific Economic Forum (APEC) Leaders’ Week in San Francisco, entitled “Creating a Resilient and Sustainable Future for All.” 

Norwegian Government “must immediately stop human rights violations against the Sámi”

Two years ago today, the Norwegian Supreme Court ruled that one of the biggest wind turbine developments in Europe had violated the rights of the Indigenous Sámi reindeer herders in the country.

“Global Financial Architecture” reform must see rich countries pay their fair share for fossil fuel phase out.

As communities face rising debts and rising seas, pressure from people-powered movements has put global financial architecture reform on the multilateral agenda for the first time in decades. This is desperately needed, as our current international monetary, trade, tax, and debt rules are limiting how much funding is available for climate action.

“Staggering. Unnerving. Bewildering.” Scientists alarmed as September smashes temperature records

Over the northern hemisphere summer that has been dominated by floods, fires, and unrelenting heat, with temperature records being regularly smashed, climate scientists have become increasingly alarmed.

Vietnam: OCI stands in solidarity with Hoang Thi Minh Hong and Ngo Thi To Nhien

The wheels of oppression have turned again. We have known for a while that Vietnam has been systematically silencing its environmental critics under false pretenses.

A day after IEA calls for no new oil & gas development, UK approves vast Rosebank oil field

Barely is the ink dry on the IEA’s report which called for no new oil and gas development, and yet today, the UK Government gave the go-ahead to the huge Rosebank oil field, which is seen as the UK’s last untapped oil field.

Wow! Just Wow! 700 marches, 600,000 people on 7 continents demand #EndFossilFuels

The turnout wildly exceeded expectations, proof that this summer's record heat, mega floods, and severe weather are putting the climate crisis, and the fight against fossil fuels, at the forefront of peoples' minds. The turnout was global.

Civil society criticizes African Climate Summit for promoting false solutions, not fossil fuel phaseout

Last week, some 30,000 delegates and 25 African heads of state, as well as the European Commission President, UN Secretary-General and US Special Envoy on Climate, gathered in Nairobi for the inaugural Africa Climate Summit.