Kazakhstan is making the international oil majors twitchy by saying it may impose a crude oil export duty as soon as mid-2008 to stabilise supplies on the domestic market. According to the Deputy Energy Minister Lyazzat Kiinov, the government is...
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.
Congo's vital rainforest and peatlands are to face destruction from 52 new oil blocks. This plunder is likely to fuel conflict and displacement, enriching Big Oil Companies and complicit leaders. The DRC cannot be a sacrifice zone. We need to...
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,...
