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  RELEASE: International Energy Agency is holding governments back on climate policy

  David Turnbull, April 4, 2018
  Through its energy forecasts, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been guiding governments towards energy decisions that are inconsistent with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, new research has found.
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  RELEASE: High Level Call to Constrain Oil, Gas, and Coal Production to Achieve the Paris Goals

  Hannah McKinnon, November 15, 2017
  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.
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  Germany must quit fossil fuels to regain climate leadership: new report

  Hannah McKinnon, November 7, 2017
  Rapidly phasing out coal, banning oil and gas expansion, and ending dirty international finance are required for Germany to recover its climate leadership, says new report.
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  Report: Trump’s “Energy Dominance” Plans Rely on Billions in Fossil Fuel Subsidies

  Janet Redman, October 3, 2017
  A new report out today reveals that U.S. taxpayers continue to foot the bill for more than $20 billion in fossil fuel subsidies each year. These subsidies amount to billions of dollars wasted to prop up an industry responsible for a climate crisis that has contributed to lives lost and hundreds of billions in damages this hurricane season alone.
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  Dirty Energy Dominance: Dependent on Denial – How the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry Depends on Subsidies and Climate Denial

  Janet Redman, October 3, 2017
  A new report by Oil Change International reveals that U.S. taxpayers continue to foot the bill for more than $20 billion in fossil fuel subsidies each year. Every dollar spent subsidizing this industry takes us further away from achieving internationally agreed emissions goals, and maintaining a stable climate.
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  A Nobel Appeal to Norway

  Hannah McKinnon, August 29, 2017
  Five Nobel Peace Laureates have called on Norwegian Prime Ministerial candidates to declare their intent to put an end to fossil fuel exploration and expansion. The letter, sent in advance of the country’s national elections in mid-September, is an appeal for climate leadership. But, they are also the world’s seventh largest exporter of emissions. Their...
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  Climate on the Line: Why New Tar Sands Pipelines Are Incompatible With the Paris Goals

  Adam Scott, January 19, 2017
  Climate on the Line: Why new tar sands pipelines are incompatible with the Paris goals January 2017 Oil Change International Download the report here. New analysis finds that Canada will be the world’s second highest contributor of new oil production globally over the next twenty years if action isn’t taken to halt new tar sands...
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  From North Dakota to Kenya, people power fights fossil fuel infrastructure

  Farhiya Tifow, October 12, 2016
  People power stopped Keystone XL in its tracks. Now we're seeing human resistance to fossil fuel projects spreading rapidly around the globe.
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  The Sky’s Limit: Unpacking the Climate Math

  David Turnbull, October 6, 2016
  Our research has found that the carbon budget will be exhausted with current development and some currently-operating fossil fuel projects will need to be retired early in order to have a good chance of staying below the 2C limit.
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  RELEASE: Fossil Fuel Expansion Has Reached the Sky’s Limit: Report

  David Turnbull, September 22, 2016
  The embedded carbon emissions from the oil, gas, and coal in currently operating fields and mines, if they run to the end of their projected lifetimes, will take us just beyond the Paris Agreement’s 2C warming limit, and even further from the goal of 1.5C, a new study has found.