500 Groups Endorse NYC March to End Fossil Fuels
Organizers of the March to End Fossil Fuels today announced that 500 organizations have endorsed the upcoming mobilization on September 17 in New York City.
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New study estimates The Netherlands’ fossil fuel subsidies at €37.5 billion per year, despite long-standing promises to end this support.
Never before has there been such a detailed, peer-reviewed mapping of fossil fuel subsidies in the Netherlands. The report identifies 31 fossil fuel subsidies that, combined, provide €37.5 billion per year in fossil fuel subsidies between 2020 and 2022.
Major methane monitoring company backtracks on “certified” gas schemes
Fallout from Certified Disaster campaign continues as Project Canary reportedly shifts away from “gas certification” One of the largest methane monitoring companies in the United States is reportedly backing off “certification” programs that allow the oil and gas industry to market methane gas as clean, sustainable or “responsibly sourced.”
EXIM under Biden risks repeating mistakes of Obama in supporting Papua LNG
Today, 27 environmental and civil society organizations from Papua New Guinea, the Asia Pacific region and the United States submitted a letter to the U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM) urging it to oppose support for the Category A Papua liquefied natural gas project.
IRA Anniversary: A Call to Action for Biden for a Fossil Fuel Reckoning
The IRA is one of the biggest handouts to the fossil fuel industry in US history.
Oil drilling ban in Lofoten sets precedent for high-income, fossil fuel producing countries to manage their decline of fossil fuel production
This weekend, The People's Action for an Oil-Free Lofoten, Vesterålen, and Senja, Folkeaksjonen, is closing the chapter on a successful decades’ long campaign to protect the area’s waters from oil drilling. The victory is a first step for Norway and other wealthy fossil fuel producers around the world that must lead in ending all new fossil fuel development and manage a decline of existing production.
Biden administration halts involvement in “certified” methane gas standards, reversal highlights greenwashing risks of gas certification schemes
The Department of Energy has declined to endorse a standard for “certified” or “responsibly sourced” methane gas following pressure from a large coalition of climate and environmental justice organizations. Last week Gas Leaks, Earthworks and Oil Change International launched the Certified Disasters campaign and sent a letter signed by 148 organizations demanding the agency halt its involvement in certification schemes, which are being used to market methane gas as “clean” and justify the construction of gas export facilities, pipelines, power plants and gas-dependent buildings.
Canada’s new fossil fuel subsidy framework contradicts own international policy
Rather than match the international policy, today’s announcement leaves the door open indefinitely to domestic public finance for oil and gas, only committing to “announce by fall 2024 the implementation plan” to phase out these flows.
New German climate policy will continue multi-billion overseas fossil fuel finance and break major international climate promise
The German Government is set to break a major international climate commitment, releasing a draft policy today for Euler Hermes, the German export credit agency, which allows the agency’s huge international fossil fuel financing to continue.