By approving CP2, the Trump administration is prioritizing his fossil fuel donors’ profits over communities’ health and safety and a stable climate.
While the world races to phase out fossil fuels, Norway clings to oil and gas like it’s part of the climate solution — not the root of the crisis.
CCS and blue hydrogen have been criticised by environmental groups, academics and communities globally due to their technological and economic ineffectiveness, lack of energy security and environmental benefits, safety concerns, and financial burden on taxpayers along with overstated job benefits.
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.
Defending migrants is an essential part of climate justice.
CCS has been failing for half a century and its only significant success has been the billions pocketed by industry in public subsidies.
Civil society organisations gathering outside the EU Council headquarters in Brussels urged European energy ministers to break free from fossil gas completely, and not to simply replace Russian gas with other suppliers, including liquified gas (LNG) from the US.
“In Bonn, we witnessed the Global North retreating from climate leadership and its own obligations amid the still-lingering hangover of Baku’s finance failure."
The EU has given in to pressure from the Trump Administration to buy $750 billion worth of oil, gas and other energy products from the U.S. over the next three years in exchange for tariff relief.
As Norway heads into its parliamentary election on September 8th 2025, we analysed the manifestos of all major political parties represented in Parliament to evaluate how their proposed oil and gas policies would shift Norway’s trajectory.
