Oil Change International

Posts in climate leadership

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  The IEA Comes Up Short on Climate (Again)

  Greg Muttitt, November 12, 2018
  Today’s release of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2018 marked another missed opportunity for the International Energy Agency (IEA) to provide a roadmap to Paris success.
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  Breaking the 2-degree habit: Why 1.5 is critical

  Hannah McKinnon, October 8, 2018
  In a landmark special report, the IPCC has today confirmed the urgency and importance of keeping us to 1.5ºC of warming. At around 1º of warming, the world is already experiencing the devastating impacts of climate change; 1.5º would at least give us a chance at avoiding catastrophic tipping points, while well below 2º is the less ambitious, higher-risk threshold. 
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  Oil Change International Responds to EBRD Release of Draft Energy Sector Strategy

  Collin Rees, September 26, 2018
  Yesterday, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) released a revised draft of its energy sector strategy. The draft of the new strategy is due to be finalized by the end of 2018, and will have bearing on billions of dollars in public finance for energy.
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  Letter: 65 Groups from 28 Countries Tell EBRD and EIB to Stop Financing Fossil Fuels

  Collin Rees, September 26, 2018
  As EBRD and EIB prepare for their respective energy sector strategy reviews, 65 civil society groups from 28 countries released an open letter being sent to top EBRD and EIB officials demanding that they stop financing oil, gas, and coal projects.
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  Oil Change International responds to court’s quashing of Trans Mountain’s approval

  Collin Rees, August 30, 2018
  "De facto halting this dangerous project keeps open the only credible path for Canada to live up to its obligation to fight climate change. Building new, long-lived pipelines in support of ever-growing oil production and export is wholly incompatible with the rapid transition away from fossil fuels required."
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  Letter: 230+ Groups to Justin Trudeau – Climate Leadership Means Saying No to Pipelines

  Collin Rees, May 24, 2018
  Over 230 civil society groups from 44 countries released an open letter being sent to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging him to reject the pipeline and instead begin planning for a managed decline of fossil fuel production and a just transition for workers and impacted communities.
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  Will Governor Brown Plug the Dangerous Hole in California’s Climate Action?

  Kelly Trout, May 22, 2018
  If Governor Brown is serious about marshaling a response to climate change that is adequate to the challenge, he must lead the managed transition off oil and gas production in California. That's the call to action of a new report released by Oil Change International in partnership with 14 other environmental justice and climate groups.
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  When you are in a hole…

  Hannah McKinnon, May 9, 2018
  Tackling fossil fuel production at the UN Today, a pair of declarations representing close to 500 organizations and 140 leading economists respectively were submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) calling on countries and the process to address fossil fuel production and financing as a critical way of increasing ambition and...
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  House Poised to Vote for Big Oil Subsidy in Budget Deal – Oil Change Int’l Response

  Janet Redman, February 8, 2018
  "It's cynical and reckless to provide relief for climate-related disasters with one hand, while essentially paying Big Oil to worsen the climate crisis with the other. Transferring billions of dollars from hard-working taxpayers to ultra-rich oil companies to extract more fossil fuels will not make our country safer or stronger."
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  Letter from 30+ Groups: Congress Must Stop Subsidizing Enhanced Oil Recovery

  Janet Redman, February 6, 2018
  Today, more than 30 environmental, health and social justice organizations urged Congressional leaders to exclude an extension of the tax credit for carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery from any spending bill.