Today, a few days after a high level event (1) organized by the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (2) on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York, civil society organizations launch a position paper urging the coalition and its members to deliver on commitments to promote a global phase out of oil and gas production, and turn aspirations into bold and ambitious climate action in line with equity, justice, and science.Â
Paris Agreement
New study suggests we are heading for 2-3 degrees warming, making âclimate tipping pointsâ irreversible
Last week, a new scientific report was published looking at climate tipping points. As one of the authors notes: âThe world is heading towards 2-3C of global warming. This sets Earth on course to cross multiple dangerous tipping points that will be disastrous for people across the world”.
Big Oilâs global climate scenarios will âbustâ the 1.5 degree warming of Paris Agreement
A peer reviewed paper, published today in Nature Communications, examines the global decarbonisation scenarios produced by BP, Shell and Equinor and finds they are incompatible with the climate objectives of the Paris Agreement.
Climate Hope: Will Australiaâs new Prime Minister go from climate laggard to leader?
Yesterday, Australia’s liberal Labor Party secured enough seats to hold an outright majority in the House, as the counting of votes continued ten days on from the historic election.
Shell AGM: Company accused of âhot airâ and âcausing extreme harmsâ on climate
Today is Shellâs AGM, where the company will try and spin to its shareholders and the wider public that it is leading the climate fight and race to net zero. But its all a climate charade. Its all a lie.
Oil Change International submits evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee
The UK House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee have launched a inquiry into Accelerating the transition from fossil fuels and securing energy supplies, which is scrutinising the UK Governmentâs Energy Security Strategy and its North Sea Transition Deal (for oil and gas production in the UKâs Continental Shelf). Oil Change International submitted the following evidence for the committee.
Updated analysis reveals oil industry climate plans are grossly insufficient to achieve Paris Climate Goals
The report finds the oil and gas majors are involved in over 200 expansion projects on track for approval from 2022 through 2025. If they go forward, these companiesâ investments could create an additional 8.6 billion tonnes (Gt) of carbon pollution â equivalent to the lifetime emissions of 77 new coal power plants.
Big Oil Reality Check â Updated Assessment of Oil and Gas Company Climate Plans
Despite an array of new ânet zeroâ pledges released in the past two years, the climate promises of major U.S. and European oil and gas companies still fail to meet the bare minimum for alignment with the Paris Agreement, according to a new study.
South Africa: Activists demand accelerating a just transition from fossil fuels after devastating flooding
After some of the most destructive flooding ever to hit South Africa last week, which resulted in over 400 killed and 40,000 displaced, climate activists are calling on the government to speed up the transition away from fossil fuels.
New Report: Despite âNet Zeroâ Rhetoric, Worldâs Biggest Banks Continued to Pour Billions into Fossil Fuel Expansion in 2021
Released today, the 13th annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, the most comprehensive global analysis on fossil fuel banking to date, underscores the stark disparity between public climate commitments being made by the worldâs largest banks, versus the reality of their largely business-as-usual financing to the fossil fuel industry.