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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.

Civil society condemns Japanese Government’s “GX Strategy” for being “soaked in fossil fuels”

To coincide with the "GX Week" in Japan, a network of civil society groups from across the region and Global South have come together to call for Japan to stop financing false solutions and delaying the just transition to clean energy.

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".

Experts warn fracking in UK is neither safe, viable, nor popular and “amounts to climate suicide”

Last week, new British Prime Minister outlined plans to frack in the UK. However, experts, scientists, activists, NGO’s and even Truss’s own MPs, believe that fracking will fail in the UK.

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".

Britain’s new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, will be a “disaster” for the climate

Today Britain has a new Prime Minister, Liz Truss. As Truss takes the top job after winning the Conservative election race, she is under intense pressure to deliver on a range of issues, including the cost of living crisis and soaring energy prices.

China experiences “worst heatwave ever recorded”

In a year when climate records – from floods, fire and drought - are being shattered daily like shards of glass, there is one country that beats them all: China. The country is experiencing a heatwave like no other.

Big Oil’s global climate scenarios will “bust” the 1.5 degree warming of Paris Agreement

A peer reviewed paper, published today in Nature Communications, examines the global decarbonisation scenarios produced by BP, Shell and Equinor and finds they are incompatible with the climate objectives of the Paris Agreement.

Cheniere’s new LNG greenwashing scheme exposes the deep flaws in industry’s methane strategy

Oil Change International and Greenpeace USA released a report today raising serious questions about both the methodology and the intent of Cheniere’s so called cargo emission tags or CETs.