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.
LATEST PROGRAM POSTS
Here is Rich Cookson's second blog from Sakhalin Island, off Russia's east coast.
Rich writes: "The Sakhalin Energy (SE) project, Sakhalin II, is the second of nine planned extraction projects around Sakhalin. Exxon holds a 30 per cent stake in Sakhalin I, an oil development on the northeastern Sakhalin Shelf. Affiliates of the Russian oil company Rosneft hold a 20 per cent stake.
Its 100F in California and it could well be over 100 degrees in London today. As we all wilt in the heat, everyone is asking is this climate change? The Independent in its front page thinks so. “Temperature set to hit 100 degrees - and global warming is to blame”, says one of the headlines in today’s paper.
In the UK, roads are melting, railways are buckling, commuters are sweltering and the south east faces its worst drought for 100 years. Temperatures on some buses in the hottest parts of Britain hit 52C yesterday while the London Underground, commonly known as
Over the next few days, Oil Change will be bringing you an exclusive blog by Rich Cookson, a British journalist who is visiting the oil and gas developments at Sakhalin Island off Russia's east coast (see map).
Rich writes: "In the sea off Sakhalin Island in the far east of Russia, the giant legs of a new gas and oil platform have just been painstakingly manoevered into place. Further south, some of the largest ships in the world are laying hundreds of kilometers of pipelines - part of a USD20bn project to exploit vast energy reserves under the Sea
As if the UN Heritage Committee (see below) needed any further proof to act, British climate scientists are warning that the Amazon could disappear by the end of the Century because of climate change. New research from the world-renown Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, part of the Met Office, has shown how vulnerable the forest is to rising CO2 temperatures and drought.
LATEST PROGRAM RESEARCH
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.
The countries that produce oil and gas from the North Sea (Norway, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark) rank among the countries with the greatest economic capacity and responsibility to rapidly phase out extraction, and to finance just transitions to renewable energy solutions domestically and abroad.
This report finds that the EU’s demand for gas is set to decline significantly in line with climate targets, eliminating the need to expand supply from new fields or infrastructure. In the report the authors model how EU’s gas demand matches future supply in various forecasted scenarios.