Why Nigeria Still Fears Ken Saro-Wiwa
Every year today is the one day that I dread. Even now twenty years on, today does not feel like any other day. It is not a normal day. It was twenty years ago today that the world watched in...
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Yes, We are in a Fight, But We Will Win
Make no mistake. For those of us working on environmental issues, for social justice, to protect our children, our health, our water, our communities who are on the frontline of fossil fuel extraction, we are in a fight like never...
It’s been 25 years since the Ogoni 9 — why are governments still funding fossil fuels?
To do anything less than stopping all public money to fossil fuels dishonors the memory and sacrifices of Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni 9, and countless others who have risked and lost their lives to defend their lands and communities.
California administration’s opposition to drilling offshore should extend onshore too
As we approach the Global Climate Action Summit, hosted by Governor Brown later this year, the governor himself has an opportunity to show true leadership and announce new steps to limit fossil fuel extraction across the state. After all, the...
A New Golden Age for Big Oil or a Golden Goodbye?
Goldman Sachs, the hugely influential investment bank has issued a report on the “Seven Sisters”, the world's largest oil companies, arguing that having “survived a life-changing crisis” the companies are “now poised to reap the rewards”.
Big Oil Reality Check 2023 — An Assessment of TotalEnergies, Eni, and Equinor’s Climate Plans
These briefings reveal that Total, Eni, and Equinor are on the cusp of approving a surge of new oil and gas development. If they proceed with all the projects in their anticipated pipeline for 2023, Eni could rank as the...
Climate Action Network Members React to COP26 Postponement
The COP26 bureau and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have announced the postponement of the Bonn intersessional and COP26 climate negotiations to 2021.
Greenwashing at CERAWeek2024 is meaningless without ambitious action to end fossil fuels
Climate and social movements have forced oil and gas companies to acknowledge that fossil fuels are dirty and dangerous. At the industry’s biggest event of the year – CERAWeek 2024 – Big Oil and their government enablers will try to...
Unthinkable becomes thinkable as US shale industry ponders production cuts
The unthinkable could soon be thinkable.
“Fossil fuel industry is guilty of crimes against humanity”
The energy and climate blogosphere is currently ablaze about an article, published today in the whole of the New York Times magazine, which covers the story of climate change in what it calls the definitive 10-year period from 1979 to...