IEA scenarios may not stand the test of climate litigation: Dutch Supreme Court ruling (Shell should pay attention)

January 22, 2020By Hannah McKinnonBlog Post, Energy Transitions & Futures, Featured, News, Stop Funding Fossils

By Laurie van der Burg As the climate crisis wreaks havoc across the globe and we enter a decade that will make or break our ability to limit warming to 1.5Ā°C, Big Oil continues to use the International Energy Agencyā€™s (IEA) dangerous scenarios to justify major new investments in oil and gas, including in court. … Read More

When you are in a holeā€¦

May 9, 2018By Hannah McKinnonBlog Post, Featured, News 1 Comment

Tackling fossil fuel production at the UN Today, a pair of declarations representing close to 500 organizations and 140 leading economists respectively were submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) calling on countries and the process to address fossil fuel production and financing as a critical way of increasing ambition and … Read More

Ready, set, go!

April 12, 2018By Hannah McKinnonBlog Post, News

New Zealand joins the growing club of first moversĀ tackling fossil fuel production! Who will be next? New Zealand joined a growing list of countries yesterday in announcing an end to fossil fuel exploration for the sake of the climate: Costa Rica, Ireland, France, and Belize are all working on plans to manage the decline of … Read More

RELEASE: High Level Call to Constrain Oil, Gas, and Coal Production to Achieve the Paris Goals

November 15, 2017By Hannah McKinnonFeatured, News, Press Releases

High level officials from Pacific Islands have called for a reining in of fossil fuel production in order to stay within the climate limits agreed to in Paris. They were joined in their call by civil society, indigenous, and academic voices. These calls echo the asks of the Lofoten Declaration, which affirms that it is the urgent responsibility and moral obligation of wealthy fossil fuel producers to lead in these efforts.