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Sultan Al Jaber’s incoherent COP28 vision misses the mark for 1.5°C

Today, at the 7th Ministerial meeting on Climate Action (MOCA) in Brussels, Dr Sultan Al Jaber from the UAE outlined his vision for the outcomes of the COP28 climate conference to be held in Dubai in December.

Civil Society groups call on Toronto Stock Exchange to block share listing for Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd’s controversial activities in Namibia and Botswana

A coalition of civil society groups from Canada, the USA, and Namibia, has today called on the Toronto Stock Exchange Venture Exchange TSXV to deny regulatory approval to a new share listing by ReconAfrica.

Italy’s SACE breaks climate promise with $500 million guarantee for Peru oil refinery

Italy’s export credit agency SACE has approved a $500 million guarantee in loans for the Talara oil refinery in Peru, once again breaking their commitment to end their international public finance for fossil fuels by the end of 2022.

Norway approves $18 billion in support for new oil and gas projects

Norway’s energy ministry approves over USD 18 billion to support 19 new oil and fossil gas field developments on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in the North Sea - Silje Ask Lundberg, Oil Change International North Sea campaign manager responds.

In response to FERC authorizing construction for the Mountain Valley Pipeline

The resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) remains strong. People will continue to fight until this unnecessary pipeline is dead and communities in Appalachia thrive with affordable renewable energy, good jobs, and a healthy climate. 

Empty seats and empty words at Paris Summit leave fossil fuel culprits off the hook

Global leaders at the Paris Summit missed a critical opportunity to redirect trillions from fossil fuels, debt, and the ultra rich to address the climate crisis.

OECD allows support for fossil-based technologies under agreed ‘climate incentives’

Instead of ending oil and gas finance, the OECD has enacted new public financial incentives for the fossil fuel industry, including for hydrogen and ammonia created from fossil gas, as part of its new "climate-friendly" incentives for Export Credit Agencies (ECAs).

Paris Summit at risk of letting fossil fuel companies and Global North leaders off the hook for climate and inequality

Earlier this week a coalition of 150+ economists and policy experts including Yanis Varoufakis, Jason Hickel, Olúfémi O. Táíwò, Nader Habibi, and Isabelle Ferreras sent a letter to Global North leaders, calling on them to pay their fair share for a just energy transition with trillions in public reparations, and to allow democratic and people-centred reforms to the global financial system they have a disproportionate control over. 

150+ economists and experts call on Paris Summit leaders to redirect trillions from fossils, debt, and the 1%

150+ economists and experts call on Paris Summit leaders to redirect trillions in public money from fossil fuels, unfair debts, and the super rich to fix global crises

Hundreds of Indigenous leaders, land and water protectors, and allies from across the continent march for a second day in Washington D.C. and get arrested sitting in front of the White House on Indigenous Peoples Day. The mobilization is being organized by Build Back Fossil Free, a coalition of hundreds of Indigenous, Black, environmental, climate justice, youth, and social justice organizations. People are taking part in mass civil disobedience at the White House to pressure President Biden to declare a climate emergency and stop all new fossil fuel projects.

Climate justice movements call for major global mobilisation to fight fossil fuels on September 15 and 17

As the Bonn Climate Change Conference comes to an end, climate justice movements from all sectors join their voices to fight back the declared war that fossil fuels and those who continue to support it have imposed against us.