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COP31 President of negotiations says we need to get off fossil fuels

“We do need to get off fossil fuels - but for this to work we need planned, government-led transitions that build economic resilience, energy security and sovereignty, and political stability. Without them, countries risk being trapped by the next fossil fuel crisis rather than preparing for the future beyond it.”

Community Leaders Rally Globally to Push Back on Polluting Companies as TotalEnergies Expected to Highlight Jump in Profits on the Back of Iran War at Annual Meeting

TotalEnergies annual general meeting (AGM) will be held Friday, May 29. Meanwhile, people are rallying in a Week of Action across Africa, Europe, and Latin America with nearly 70 actions in 20 countries to push back on TotalEnergies and other polluting companies, demanding they cease operations and fix past harms.

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In response to the International Energy Agency’s annual World Energy Investment Report 

Every world leader has spent the last six months promising to deliver energy security and affordability. Today's new energy investment data shows too many are doing the opposite. Unless leaders change course, fossil fuel investment is set to rise this year while clean energy investment stagnates.

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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.