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The UK Licensing Ban: How We Won, How We Build On It

The UK officially announced a North Sea licensing ban on 26 November, 2025. While it was a hard fought win and a necessary first step, it still has a long way to go. Read the analysis from Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth Scotland and Platform.

“We cannot go to the sea now.” Massive Japanese fossil fuel project destroys Bangladeshi communities and worsens climate crisis

Japan’s development agency, Japan International Cooperation Agency, destroyed communities & livelihoods in Bangladesh with its $4 billion Matarbari coal power plant. Now they are pushing for gas & other fossil fuel technologies. But local fisherfolk and farmers are standing up to stop fossil expansion.

“We are fighting for a life of dignity for our people” — Dipti Bhatnagar on Empire, Resistance to Fossil Fuel Companies, and Just Futures

In this episode of Burned: The Price of Oil, Shady Khalil speaks with Dipti Bhatnagar, climate justice organizer with Justiça Ambiental (Friends of the Earth Mozambique) and Executive Committee member of Friends of the Earth International. Dipti shares her 25-year journey organizing across India, the U.S., and Mozambique, connecting struggles from anti-dam movements to anti-colonial resistance, rooted in a vision of collective care, dignity, and justice.

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Environmental and Frontline Groups Blast House Passage of the SPEED Act

By gutting NEPA, the SPEED Act would allow fossil fuel companies and other polluting corporations to cut corners in environmental reviews; bury information about the risks posed by their dirty, dangerous projects; and silence community opposition.

Big Polluters have captured €17 billion in public subsidies for failed carbon capture technology – because fossil fuel lobbyists are setting the agenda

The European Commission and its oil company co-host HEREMA will hold the fifth Industrial Carbon Management (ICM) Forum in Athens. As the EU gears up for its annual meeting on carbon capture, new research1 shows that carbon capture and storage (CCS) has received €17.3 billion in public subsidies from the EU, its member states, and Norway.

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UK’s Starmer has righted wrong, says OCI on reports of withdrawal from controversial Mozambique LNG project

Keir Starmer and his government made the right decision to refuse to fund the Mozambique LNG project, which is a human rights and environmental disaster.

Mapping the money behind carbon capture: Public subsidies and industry ties

Data compiled by Oil Change International (OCI) shows the EU, its member states, and Norway have committed nearly €17.3 billion in public money since 2001 to CCS projects and fossil- based hydrogen projects that plan to utilize CCS.

Behind the Barrel: An Update on the Origins of Israel’s Fuel Supply

This report details the global fuel shipments that fuel Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It tracks over 21 million tonnes of crude oil and refined fuels delivered to Israel between November 2023 and October 2025, including jet fuel used for military aircrafts.

Advancing a Fair and Funded Transition Away from Fossil Fuels at COP30

The report recommends that governments lead the fossil fuel phase-out to ensure it is rooted in justice and equity.

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Planet Wreckers: The Global North Countries Fueling the Fire Since the Paris Agreement

A decade on from the Paris Agreement, fossil fuel extraction and use have continued to rise and hit record levels. At the same time, the public finance needed to unlock the required climate action has not been delivered.
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At Oil Change International, we create the conditions necessary for a just and equitable fossil-free world through our work to support movements, stop fossil fuel projects, and hold governments and institutions accountable for rapidly phasing out oil, gas, and coal.
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Transform the institutional landscape to enable just phase-out policies

We work to advance and expand government policies to end fossil fuel production while also shifting public finance and subsidies away from fossil fuels and into a just energy transition.

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The fight for a just transition relies on strong partnerships, networks, and geographically rooted work challenging fossil fuels projects. We work to support the goals of frontline partners and help stop fossil fuel projects from being built.

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Shell Shocked Land

To mark the 30th Anniversary of the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9, Oil Change International produced a new documentary, “Shell Shocked Land: Honoring the Legacy of the Ogoni 9 & the Fight for Justice for the Niger Delta.”
  • The history

  • 30  years

    since the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 who were murdered by the Nigerian military for their campaign against Shell in Nigeria

  • 69  years

    that communities have been fighting for justice against Shell, which is trying to avoid both cleaning and paying up by selling their operations in the Niger Delta

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Governments who are part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) group of wealthy countries have an opportunity to start shifting USD $41 billion per year of public finance out of fossil fuels and into clean energy. We need these OECD countries to rewrite the rules to end export finance for new oil and gas projects.

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