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This May, community leaders from Freeport, Texas, flew to Tokyo to hold Japanese financiers accountable for funding a dangerous liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project in their town.

As long as the global energy system relies on volatile fossil fuel markets, conflicts will continue to drive instability, economic shocks, and corporate profiteering. Fossil fuel companies can rake in profits from this volatility, while households are left with higher bills. The only real path to energy security is a just transition to affordable renewable energy. 

On 20 May 2026, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a landmark resolution backing the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) 2025 advisory opinion on climate change. The resolution passed overwhelmingly, with 141 countries voting in favor, 8 against, and 28 abstaining. The adoption of this resolution is a major development, both legally and politically. It reinforces States obligations under international law to prevent and address climate change and suggests that countries could face legal consequences if they fail to act, including through enabling continued fossil fuel expansion.

A ray of hope from the Santa Marta conference comes from the political courage of a few governments willing to stand with people against Big Oil and the Trump Administration’s “might is right” geopolitics, we need more to join them.

Secretary-General Guterres is right to treat this moment with the urgency it demands.

Keir Starmer's resignation marks the end of one chapter in British politics, but it must not mark the end of the UK's progress on climate. His government took a significant step by ending new North Sea oil and gas licensing, making the UK the largest oil and gas-producing country to do so. Labour was elected on a mandate to carry climate action forward, and the next Prime Minister must resist pressure from the fossil fuel industry to reverse course and instead provide the certainty that workers and communities need.

The report draws on evidence from 13 producing countries in Africa and finds that decades of extraction have failed to reduce poverty or drive economic growth, and instead are lining the pockets of an elite few.

A new report, Spillover Effects: The Fossil Fuel-Debt Trap in the Global South, demonstrates that the linkage between fossil fuel dependence and sovereign debt is systemic, not incidental. Released by the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, MENA Fem Movement, and Oil Change International, the report includes case studies of how this trend is playing out in five countries, authored by researchers based in those nations.

Data compiled by Oil Change International (OCI) shows the EU, its member states, and Norway have committed nearly €17.3 billion in public money since 2001 to CCS projects and fossil- based hydrogen projects that plan to utilize CCS.