GLOBAL POLICY

The Paris climate goals demand a rapid, just transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. We’re pushing governments to lead the way by adopting policies to end oil and gas production.

OVERVIEW OF WORK

In order to achieve climate goals, governments and other decision makers must support a just and equitable move away from fossil fuels. We are pushing for precedent-setting leadership from governments to put policies in place to manage the decline of oil and gas and ensure a just transition for fossil-fuel dependent workers and communities.

Building from a growing group of first mover governments, we are pressuring for increasing numbers of national and regional governments to end new licenses and permits for oil and gas production, and to develop plans to wind down their existing production over time.

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File under truly absurd: two American symbols of supersize, McDonalds and Hummer, have hooked up to inflate their profits and your kids' waist lines. McD's is giving away toy Hummers with Kids Meals for the rest of the month. Have some fun with this absurdity thanks to Environmental Working Group at: www.RonaldMcHummer.com

New research predicts that over half the world's major forests will be destroyed if temperatures rise by 3C or more by the end of the century due to climate change. In one of the most comprehensive analysis yet of the potential effects of global warming, scientists from Bristol University in the UK argue that floods, forest fires and droughts will become not only more common but more extreme.

The violence in Nigeria shows no sign of abating with the news that five oil workers were abducted from a notorious nightclub in Port Harcourt the oil capital of the Niger Delta in Nigeria at the weekend. The five were taken from the Goodfellas club on Sunday night as sporadic gun battles broke out across Port Harcourt.

Although no group has so far claimed responsibility, kidnapping of oil workers has increased this year as the local group – MEND – the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta - has used it as a tool in its campaign for

Chris Borrowman, meet Yuanhui Zhang. Chris is a pork producer in Illinois and he has a lagoon in his backyard the size of about 23 swimming pools that is filled with pig crap. Yuanhui is a professor at the University of Illinois that has developed a new process to turn pig manure into oil.

This sounds like a match made it heaven, no? It isn't going to solve the world's addiction to oil, and we should all eat more vegetables and less pork, but if the 43 million hogs in the Midwest have to relieve themselves somewhere, maybe they should be

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This briefing assesses Shell’s fossil fuel extraction plans in light of Shell's appeal of a Dutch court verdict requiring the company to take responsibility for its climate pollution. Our analysis shows that Shell continues to plan for levels of oil and gas production and investment that undermine the world’s chances of curtailing climate disaster.

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