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
It is “an epic feat of construction” that has been “has been hailed as the first engineering wonder of the 21st century”. This is how the right wing Daily Telegraph describes the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline that opened yesterday. At the ceremony yesterday yesterday attended by heads of state and hundreds of dignitaries, Lord Browne, the chief executive of BP, described it as an "historic achievement".
Britain’s Department for International Development, or DfID, will warn today that climate change could wipe out any benefits from measures to help Africa agreed by the G8 at Gleneagles last year.
DfID’s first White Paper for five years, says: " What is clear is that Africa appears to have some of the greatest burdens of climate change impacts, certainly from the human health and agricultural perspective". Southern Africa and the Sahel, the Great Lakes areas and the coastal zones of eastern and western Africa are said to be particularly at risk.
Rising oil prices are overwhelming the benefits of debt cancellation and threatening to deepen the debt crisis. This is the message of a new policy briefing released today by Oil Change International and the Jubilee USA Network (to view the press release click here). The brief outlines the urgent need to challenge G-8 plans to increase support for the oil and fossil fuel industry and calls on governments around the world to focus international efforts on strategies that will simultaneously address energy poverty, crushing debt and global warming (to take action click here).
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The development group Oxfam has castigated the efforts of the G8 on climate change in the run up to this week’s meeting, as “all talk no action”. Oxfam says that the focus on climate change at the G8 Summit at Gleneagles a year ago “was instrumental in raising public awareness of the issue. But the processes set in motion are happening nowhere near fast enough to produce the necessary reductions in greenhouse gases".
It is part of the development group’s overall assessment of how the G8 have lived up to their promises they gave at Gleneagles, in terms of progress on
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.