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António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, addressed countries at the United Nations climate change negotiations today. He particularly highlighted how Big Oil profits while people around the world suffer from war, instability, high prices, and climate chaos.
As leaders from around the world gather today in Antalya for the Leaders Summit, civil society organizations raise concerns about restrictions to access, and question why many leaders from major emitting countries are absent. Some leaders are even prioritizing attending a Summit in Ireland to discuss the expansion of water resource intensive AI data centers while many parts of the world reel from climate disasters.
At the COP31 UN climate talks, Oil Change International's new analysis outlines how fossil fuel producing countries are impacted by the volatility of a global economy running on fossil fuels, and makes the case for these countries to develop credible government-led roadmaps to plan for a world of declining demand for their products.
Today world governments and development finance institutions gather for the second day of the COP31 United Nations climate negotiations in Antalya, Türkiye. Oil Change International is calling on world leaders to drop their failed private finance led approaches and instead commit to developing fossil fuel phase-out pathways which protect people from worsening climate disasters, rising energy and food costs, and geopolitical instability.
BAAJA is not a compromise – it’s exactly what the fossil fuel industry wants.
As governments gather today for the COP31 United Nations climate negotiations in Antalya, Türkiye, Oil Change International (OCI) calls on world leaders to turn their commitment to transition away from fossil fuels into concrete, publicly funded, government-led plans that protect people from worsening climate disasters, rising energy and food costs, and geopolitical instability.
After amendments, Oil Change International reaffirms opposition to the Bipartisan Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA)
As world leaders gather in Türkiye, Oil Change International calls for concrete phaseout roadmaps, public finance, and international cooperation to deliver affordable energy, good jobs, and a safer future.
While proponents present the bill as a win for climate and renewable energy, even their own model shows BAAJA will accelerate fossil fuel development and, at best, lead to minimal reductions in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
In response to the the publication of the Energy Independence Bill, which will put the oil and gas licensing ban in the UK into law.
