On the 4th January 1993, some 300,000 Ogoni celebrated the Year of Indigenous Peoples by peacefully protesting against Shell's activities and environmental destruction of Ogoniland in the Niger Delta. It remains the largest demonstration against an oil company ever. "We...
Follow along for the most important events, press conferences, and developments on Day 1 of COP29, where negotiations begin amid geopolitical shifts and critical decisions on climate finance, fossil fuel phaseout, and U.S. climate policy.
“The UK wants to call itself a climate leader but today Keir Starmer failed to match strong words with a strong plan of action."
The announcements shared at today’s Summit on Methane will be used to justify selling American LNG to countries around the world under the guise of it being “clean. But phasing out fossil fuels is the only way to reduce climate...
"The draft climate finance deal is a mixed bag with good, bad and ugly options. Rich countries now have a last chance to step up to pay the climate debt they owe to the Global South and unlock a fair...
Norway, a major oil & gas-producing nation, fulfills Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) pledge made a year ago at COP28 climate summit in Dubai Norwegian government institutions can no longer use government-backed finance to fund fossil fuel projects abroad Norway’s...
“This letter is a helpful reminder to countries that they must deliver on the commitments made at COP28 and COP29, in particular on ending fossil fuels and delivering climate finance."
The International Energy Agency’s latest report assesses how decline rates from oil and gas fields could impact future levels of oil and gas production. The findings reiterate that investment in new oil and gas fields is not needed under a scenario...
The EPA's comments point to the fact that at current oil prices the pipeline would certainly trigger additional production in the tar sands, and thus significant additional emissions. Thus Keystone XL clearly fails the President’s climate test...
The climate movement demands a process free of fossil influence, including real conflict-of-interest policies to keep fossil interests from co-opting the talks and social pressure to block the oil, gas, and coal industries from leading the energy transition.
