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...
The Oslo-based oil and gas company BW Energy seems ready to contribute to an environmental disaster and human rights violations in the form of oil drilling near the Unesco-certified Okavango Delta in Namibia and Botswana. Today, Oil Change International sent...
In the UK, despite hundreds of millions being spent and no commercial projects in operation, a further £25 billion has been promised in new subsidies for Carbon, Capture and Storage (CCS) and Hydrogen. This is greater than the supposed £22...
The COP Troika could prove valuable if it catalyzes more ambitious policies to limit warming to 1.5°C. However, expanding fossil fuel production is fundamentally incompatible with an ambition to submit '1.5-aligned Nationally Determined Contributions' (NDCs). Such actions are not only...
Today, Oil Change International released a briefing showing rich countries can mobilize well over $5 trillion a year for climate action at home and abroad by ending fossil fuel handouts, making big polluters pay, and changing unfair global financial rules.
Today, a coalition of almost 50 climate action groups and frontline community leaders will release their vision for a U.S. NDC aligned with science and justice. The updated U.S. Fair Share NDC reflects the U.S.’s outsized responsibility to address the...
The first in-depth analysis on the escalating wave of climate litigation aimed at fossil fuel companies reveals 86 climate lawsuits have been filed against the world’s largest oil, gas, and coal producing corporations – including BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell,...
86 climate lawsuits have been filed against the world’s largest oil, gas, and coal producing corporations, with two in five cases involving claims for compensation for climate change damages linked to fossil fuels. The number of cases filed against fossil...
Oil Change International has a new website and new domain name. Over the past year we’ve been hard at work redesigning everything about our website – it was our first complete website overhaul in over a decade. And with nearly...
The current wave of carbon capture projects and government subsidies will only further entrench the fossil fuel industry and its impacts.
