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Seeking Climate Justice: Civil Society’s Crucial Role from Courtrooms to Communities

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 vital battlegrounds, civil society organizations (CSOs) play a key role, pushing legal cases forward and ensuring public engagement in the critical climate debate. 

If UK Labour scrapped billions for false solutions like CCS and hydrogen, it could fund pensioners’ winter fuel allowance 

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 billion black hole that the previous Conservative Government left the new Labour government. If Labour is looking for a quick fix to find money to fund the winter fuel allowance, they should scrap these wasteful handouts to the fossil fuel industry.

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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 20 years of history to go through, this was a big undertaking!

Countries tasked with leading efforts to increase climate action increasing oil and gas extraction by 33%

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 hypocritical but also set a dangerous precedent for other nations, undermining global efforts to address climate change.

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Biden’s UN Speech: Climate Claims Fall Short of Reality

During his address to the U.N. General Assembly, President Biden touted his climate accomplishments, ready to take his victory lap. But his term isn’t over yet — and there’s still much to be done to ensure the United States achieves its domestic and international climate goals.

Road to COP29: Shifting and unlocking trillions for a just energy transition

Last year at COP28, governments committed to transition away from fossil fuels. The next key step to make good on this landmark energy agreement is rich countries agreeing to a new climate finance goal of at least $1 trillion annually to make this possible. This will allow countries to deliver national climate plans (NDCs) due in 2025 that phase out fossil fuels. 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.

Funding Failure: The True Cost of Carbon Capture in the UK

Prime Minister Keir Stamer paints a bleak picture of the economic situation in the UK, announcing worsening economic and social pressures. The thing is, there is money. It is just being spent on the wrong things. The UK has already spent or committed nearly £500 million on CCS projects since 2010. £168 million of this was spent between 2012 and 2016 on two projects (Peterhead and White Rose) that failed to get off the ground. Policies announced since 2020 have made available £25.26 billion for CCS and hydrogen projects. Only a fraction of this has been committed to date. This is enough to fund the total 2023 winter fuel allowance payout 12 times over.

Big Oil in Court: The latest trends in climate litigation against fossil fuel companies

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, and TotalEnergies. The number of cases filed against fossil fuel companies each year has nearly tripled since the Paris Agreement was reached in 2015, highlighting a growing global movement to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in the climate crisis.

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Funding Failure: Carbon Capture and Fossil Hydrogen Subsidies Exposed

Our new briefing reveals how governments in North America and Europe are preparing to waste hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars on these ineffective technologies, further benefiting the fossil fuel industry, despite their record profits.
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We work to advance and expand government policies to end fossil fuel production while also shifting public finance and subsidies away from fossil fuels and into a just energy transition.

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The Fossil Math

Fossil fuel companies have already greenlit enough fossil fuel extraction to overheat the planet. For a livable climate, governments must: stop new oil, gas, and coal; manage a fast and fair phase-out of all fossil fuels; and fully fund a just renewable energy transition.
  • By the numbers:

  • 51 %

    Of planned expansion by 5 countries

    The majority of global oil and gas expansion from 2023 through 2050 is threatened by just five Global North countries: the United States, Canada, Australia, Norway, and the UK.

  • 1.4  times

    More money for fossil fuels than clean

    G20 governments and development banks poured 1.4 times more public money into fossil fuels than clean energy with their international finance from 2020 to 2022.

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Tell OECD countries to stop propping up the oil and gas industry with public money

Governments who are part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) group of wealthy countries have an opportunity to start shifting USD $41 billion per year of public finance out of fossil fuels and into clean energy. We need these OECD countries to rewrite the rules to end export finance for new oil and gas projects.

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