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Global Frontline Communities and Civil Society Unite to Demand Polluters Leave Their Countries

“Kick Polluters Out” Global Week of Action: coordinated actions across Africa, Europe, and Latin America by groups facing impacts from polluting companies to demand accountability, fix past harm, and cease operations.

Texas Community Leaders Deliver First-of-Its-Kind Complaints to Hold Japanese LNG Financiers Accountable

For the first time, a community harmed by a Japanese-funded LNG project has filed a series of coordinated complaints against the whole chain of project financiers.

Texas Leaders Deliver First-Of-A-Kind Series of Complaints to Hold Japanese LNG Financiers Accountable

Freeport, Texas community leaders have traveled to Tokyo to hand-deliver complaints today against the Japanese financial institutions that funded the construction of a dangerous LNG project near their homes.

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Media Advisory: Community Leaders Host Press Conference on Risks and Impacts of U.S. LNG at Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan

At the press conference, Gulf South community leaders will announce a major new accountability initiative targeting the full chain of Japanese financiers of the Freeport LNG export project.

New Report: Oil and Gas Fail to Deliver Development in Africa

As global energy markets are rocked by conflict and geopolitical instability, a new report by Oil Change International and Power Shift Africa finds that oil and gas production has failed to deliver economic development in Africa’s producing countries and is instead deepening vulnerability, inequality, and dependence.

Climate Activists Join May Day Marches in “End Fossil Fuels” Contingents

Today, climate-concerned families, neighbors, and working people will march in “End Fossil Fuels” contingents in about 20 May Day demonstrations across the U.S., from Washington D.C. to Wichita, Kansas.

Civil Society to Takaichi: Stop Using the Hormuz Energy Crisis to Increase Asia’s Fossil Fuel Dependency

30 civil society organizations released a statement today urging Japan to stop exploiting the global energy crisis triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran to push its fossil fuel agenda across Asia Pacific.

In response to the close of the Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels

In Santa Marta a line is being drawn. The Conference shows that momentum to move beyond fossil fuels is building and cannot be ignored. 

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Reaction to TotalEnergies Profits Announcement

TotalEnergies, the French oil giant, will announce its Q1 2026 profits Wednesday as a global oil crisis triggered by the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran has changed the fossil fuel industry forever, turning countries away from fossil fuels to secure energy supplies. The company is under fire for profiting from the crisis.

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Response to the Accelerate EU announcement

In response to the Accelerate EU Communication.