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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The United States is addicted to oil and we're working with allies and tens of thousands of citizens to intervene. Check out this great new flash video, take action, and please pass it on!
Meanwhile, like the addicts that they are, G8 leaders focussed this year's St. Petersburg Summit on promoting trillions of dollars of investment in new fossil fuels, that will keep on fuelling our oil addition. This, in turn, will keep oil prices high. We've just released a new Policy Brief with the Jubilee USA Network entitled High Oil Prices: Undermining Debt Cancellation and Fueling a New Crisis? (pdf).
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is said to have “icily” rejected US and EU criticism of Russia's blatant use of gas resources as a political weapon in a dispute with Ukraine earlier in the year.
More importantly he also publicly rebuffed European attempts to gain access to his country's vast gas pipeline network. Putin’s tough stance at a one day EU-Russian summit on the Black Sea, has increased tension between Russia and the EU, and it sets the stage for a "fractious summit" of G8 leaders in St Petersburg in July, where energy security is top of the agenda.
A senior scientist whose work is being featured in adverts produced by the Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Insitute, has condemned them as "a deliberate effort to mislead."
Professor Curt Davis of the University of Missouri-Columbia whose study on Antarctic ice sheets is used in the adverts, says they "are confusing and misleading the public." The adverts catch phrase is "Carbon dioxide - they call it pollution, we call it life."
Maybe it would be more believable if the CEI ran a series of adverts saying the earth is flat!!
LATEST PROGRAM RESEARCH
This new report, “Public Enemies: Assessing MDB and G20 international finance institutions’ energy finance” looks at G20 country and MDB traceable international public finance for fossil fuels from 2020-2022 and finds they are still backing at least USD 47 billion per year in oil, gas, and coal projects.
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.
The countries that produce oil and gas from the North Sea (Norway, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark) rank among the countries with the greatest economic capacity and responsibility to rapidly phase out extraction, and to finance just transitions to renewable energy solutions domestically and abroad.