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Over 500 climate, conservation, Indigenous, religious and business groups sent President-elect Joe Biden text for a proposed executive orderĀ to ban new fossil fuel leasing and permitting on federal public lands and waters.
The United Kingdomās prime minister, Boris Johnson, will commit to end the UKās overseas fossil fuel financing āas soon as possibleā at the Climate Ambition Summit. The phase-out of oil, gas, and coal financing applies to aid funding, trade promotion and export finance provided by UK Export Finance (UKEF), the institution that has come under scrutiny for its USD 1 billion investment in a controversial LNG project in Mozambique and for considering to finance the equally controversial East African Oil Pipeline.
Today across the nation, activists in 60 cities and 25 states plan to utilize COVID-safe and creative ways to deliver letters calling on major banks to distance themselves from the funding of the toxic Keystone XL and Enbridgeās Line 3 tar sands pipelines.
The Danish Government just announced the cancellation of the 8th North Sea licensing round, a ban on future offshore licencing (following an onshore ban in 2018), and a ban on all offshore production by 2050. Hannah McKinnon of Oil Change International responded as follows.
With the expected re-entry of the United States into the Paris Climate Agreement, the Biden administration is required to update the U.S. pledge for 2025 by formally submitting a 2030 pledge towards the global effort. To inform this contribution, U.S. Climate Action Network released an analysis of āfair shareā country contributions with a particular focus on the United States.Ā