Russia has halted the delivery of oil to Europe via Belarus as the acrimonious row between the two countries escalates, raising fears of oil shortages in at least five countries. Transneft, Russia's state-controlled pipeline operator, said it had been forced...
The fighting in Basra could soon affect Iraq’s oil supplies. Oil production and exports from Iraq's southern oilfields could be disrupted in three days if workers cannot reach their offices due to fighting in Basra. "If the military operations continue...
Oil may be at its lowest level for years, but Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned consumers that the "era of cheap gas" is coming to an end. At a meeting to create a new forum of gas exporting...
One of the flawed arguments of the Bush Administration was that it could not act unilaterally on reducing CO2 emissions as it would put the American economy at a competitive disadvantage. It therefore could not act until China and India...
The climate movement is turning to courts to hold corporations and governments accountable for their role in causing the climate crisis. The number of cases filed each year has nearly tripled since the Paris Agreement in 2015. With courts becoming...
As COP29 enters its second week in Baku, a parallel opportunity for climate finance leadership emerges in Paris, where OECD governments will gather to negotiate an end to $41 billion in annual oil and gas export subsidies.
In a groundbreaking decision, South Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled that the country’s climate policies fall short of their constitutional responsibility to protect future generations. This decision marks the first climate litigation ruling of its kind in Asia and could inspire...
Impractical, hugely expensive, and fiercely opposed by Alaskan civil society groups, Alaska LNG and similar projects have failed to get off the ground for 60 years.
The campaign group Oil Change International (OCI) has written to the UK government calling for an immediate reversal of its decision to finance a controversial fossil fuel project in Mozambique mired in allegations of human rights violations.
Wet’suwet’en First Nation hereditary leaders filed a formal complaint against the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) for financing LNG Canada, a massive fossil gas project that depends on a pipeline built without their consent, on their unceded land. Despite these violations,...
