Research

Oil Change International publishes upwards of 20 reports and briefings every year focused on supporting the movement for a just phase-out of fossil fuels.

Holding Course, Missing Speed: Protecting progress on ending fossil fuel finance and unlocking clean energy support

This report finds that CETP members cut fossil fuel finance by up to 78% but need to rapidly scale up finance for renewables and close loopholes that allow continued fossil finance.

Funding Failure: Japan’s $5.2 Billion Carbon Capture Plan to Derail Asia’s Energy Transition

Funding Failure: Japan's  $5.2 Billion Carbon Capture Plan to Derail Asia's Energy Transition

We Can Pay For It

Rich country leaders can unlock $6.6 trillion (USD) per year in public funding to pay their fair share for climate action at home and abroad. By ending fossil fuel handouts, making big polluters pay, and taxing the super rich, governments can raise the public money needed for a global just transition to renewables and other urgent needs from healthcare to housing.

Paying for Climate Chaos: U.S. Federal Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Production

"Paying for Climate Chaos" reveals the staggering scope of federal government subsidies for fossil fuel production.

New report shows that Norwegian Labour and Conservative parties echo the oil industry in their communication

New report prepared with Analyse & Tall, reveals how Norwegian oil policy was discussed on Facebook and Instagram between January 2021 and July 2025 by politicians, parties, government bodies, environmental organizations, and oil companies.

Total Disaster: Will the UK government use taxpayer finance to enable a human rights nightmare abroad?

Keir Starmer has inherited a controversial decision from Boris Johnson’s government. The UK Prime Minister must decide whether USD $1.5 billion of UK taxpayer support should be used to enable one of the most controversial infrastructure projects of modern times: The Mozambique Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project.

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Failing the “Climate Test”: LNG Projects Awaiting Final Investment Decision Do Not Stand Up to U.S. Government Analysis

“What we found was crystal clear – any further investment in LNG is not compatible with a livable climate,” says Andres Chang, Senior Research Specialist at Greenpeace USA and lead author of the report."

Private Fantasies, Public Realities: Why private finance isn’t delivering an energy transition and the case for public sector leadership

This report details how governments’ dominant “private-sector led” approach to financing a just energy transition is prolonging the fossil fuel era.

Banking on Climate Chaos 2025: Fossil Fuel Finance Report

The 16th annual Banking on Climate Chaos (BOCC) report covers the world’s top 65 banks’ lending and underwriting to over 2,700 fossil fuel companies. While the world’s top scientists from the International Energy Agency (IEA) repeatedly state that there is no need for a single new oil field, tanker, pipeline, or any fossil fuel expansion whatsoever, banks ignore climate risk and increase finance for dirty energy companies expanding their sector. This is amidst a rapid retreat from climate commitments many of these banks made at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021.

New Report Reveals Norwegian Labour Voters Want a Stricter Oil and Gas Policy

New report shows that a significant share of the Norwegian population wants emission cuts to happen within Norway and that Labour Party voters are ready for a political shift in oil policy.