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.

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Over 45 Presidents, Foreign Minister and Energy Ministers from 30 countries will come together on 13 July in Ceyhan, Turkey, for the grand launch of BP's Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline. Campaigners who have monitored the BTC project have issued a press release charging BP and participating international financial institutions (IFIs) with failing affected communities and the local environment.

In the run-up to the G8 Summit in Saint-Petersburg this weekend, the BTC opening ceremony is an unfortunate reminder that most countries and international institutions are actively subsidizing rather than fighting climate change. In building the project BP benefited from more than a billion

BP has astonished many analysts and critics by saying it is going to buy a $1bn stake in the state-owned Russian oil producer, Rosneft. It will seen as a major boost to President Putin just days before the G8 Summit. However opponents of the flotation told the Independent newspaper that BP had “a gun to its head” because of its existing oil interests in Russia, which would have been compromised had it decided not to back the Rosneft offer.

The flotation is expected to raise $10bn-$11bn, valuing Rosneft at between $60bn and $80bn. Other investors include the state-owned Malaysian oil company

In the run-up to the G8 Summit in Saint Petersburg this weekend, civil society and opposition figures are holding a two-day conference in Moscow to draw attention to President Vladimir Putin's authoritarian tendencies. They want the other seven G8 countries to put pressure on Russia to spend more time promoting civil rights. The police have already started rounding people up and dragging them off.

Legislators from 13 countries have sent a message to the G8 to address climate change, clean energy and sustainable development when they meet in St Petersburg later this week. They pointed out that energy security and climate security needed to be tackled together. “If we do not successfully address both, we risk undermining our development, economic and security goals” they said.

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.

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