Press Room

The Strait of Hormuz may be reopening, but this crisis has once again exposed fossil fuels as a source of conflict, chaos, volatility and disruption. While communities bear the costs, oil companies profit from the instability. Once renewables are installed, sunlight or wind does not become more expensive because of geopolitical conflict. The most durable form of energy security is reducing exposure to fossil fuels  altogether, and making a just transition to renewable energy. 

“It will be the responsibility of all governments to draw up their own energy roadmaps, but it’s the rich Global North countries that must lead the transition and stop blocking international cooperation needed to lift the structural barriers that are keeping fossil fuels afloat.”

“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.”

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.