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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.
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  The Sky’s Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production

  Greg Muttitt, September 22, 2016
  A new study released by Oil Change International, in partnership with 14 organizations from around the world, scientifically grounds the growing movement to keep carbon in the ground by revealing the need to stop all new fossil fuel infrastructure and industry expansion.
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  A Bridge Too Far: How Appalachian Basin Gas Pipeline Expansion Will Undermine U.S. Climate Goals

  Lorne Stockman, July 22, 2016
  A new report out from Oil Change International, in partnership with 11 other local, regional, and national organizations, shows that current projections for U.S. natural gas production – fueled by a boom in the Appalachian Basin – will lock in enough carbon to bust through agreed climate goals.
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  Counting the carbon kept in the ground

  Lorne Stockman, November 6, 2014
  A graphic published today by Oil Change International shows the carbon left in the ground in cancelled tar sands projects and the potential impact of continued action to stop tar sands pipelines.

• New analysis shows growing fossil reserves with a shrinking carbon budget

  David Turnbull, November 26, 2013
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 26 November 2013 Contact: Stephen Kretzmann, steve [at] priceofoil [dot] org New Oil Change International interactive graphic shows growing fossil fuel reserves in contrast to shrinking global carbon budget WASHINGTON, DC – New analysis by Oil Change International shows that global fossil fuel reserves continue to expand while the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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