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Shell's climate claims don't add up - a closer look at the oil giant's plans.

Monday, May 6 was a big day in Oregon in the fight against fossil fuels. In a big win for water and our climate, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) delivered a potentially fatal blow to the Jordan Cove LNG project and the Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline.

We live in a climate emergency, British children live in poverty in record numbers. Young people rightly care about climate change in ever increasingly numbers. It does not have to be this way. The solution is there, we just need the political will to make it happen. We need a just transition now.

We are all now a living experiment. Never before in human history have carbon dioxide levels reached 415 parts per million.

Our new report reveals, for the first time, the climate impact of North Sea oil and gas extraction, and shows the way to a job-creating energy transition. To deal with the climate emergency, the UK needs to immediately stop approving new oil and gas drilling and redirect support to clean jobs and renewable energy.

Hidden in a detailed California budget document released last week was a critical sentence that, if pursued, could mark a major shift in California climate policy.

In Sweden, flying is becoming the new tobacco, and there is increasingly a feeling of “Flygskam" or “flight shame”.

An influential British parliamentary committee has castigated the UK Government - which is paralysed by Brexit – for failing to respond adequately to the climate crisis as well as failing to reflect the urgency of that crisis in the way it funds development and climate-related projects abroad.

“Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history — and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely"

The elephant in the room of UK climate policy