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Amid a record heat wave and the worst-ever debt crisis, rich countries have blocked urgent reforms at the once-a-decade 4th Financing for Development conference (FfD4) in Seville, Spain.
We are witnessing an historic and dangerous escalation in the UK Government’s attack on the right to protest. Oil Change International urges the UK Government to stop their draconian efforts to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Peaceful protest is not terrorism, it is fundamental to democracy.
The U.S. Senate just passed a reconciliation bill that eliminates environmental protections, takes a sledgehammer to the rapidly growing clean energy economy, and distributes major giveaways to Big Oil and other corporate polluters.
It is imperative that States heed the recommendations of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies (HRTBs) as part of a rights-based approach to climate governance and fossil fuels phaseout.
As the Senate takes up the reconciliation bill, a new campaign called Families Over Big Oil is launching to expose how Republican leaders are slashing programs that support working families to bankroll billions in tax breaks for Big Oil. The campaign highlights Senate budget’s $18 billion in new oil and gas giveaways– and how families will pay the price.
“In Bonn, we witnessed the Global North retreating from climate leadership and its own obligations amid the still-lingering hangover of Baku’s finance failure."
Dominant finance approach drives 4-7 times less private investment in the Global South than promised
Today, 188 groups based in communities burdened by gas infrastructure and their allies throughout the United States sent a letter to EU Commissioners asking them to refuse to bow to U.S. President Donald Trump’s pressure to increase the bloc’s reliance on LNG or other fossil fuel imports from the United States.
In response to the International Energy Agency (IEA)’s just-released report on the greenhouse gas emissions of liquefied natural gas (LNG), Oil Change International Research Director Lorne Stockman said:
After two days of attempts to resolve disagreement between countries regarding the agenda for the mid-year climate negotiations in Bonn, negotiators just reached a compromise, meaning that the Bonn talks can officially kick-off.
