Just weeks after the COP28 climate talks finished, it is business as usual for the host country, the United Arab Emirates, in expanding its oil and gas production.
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New Data Reveals Canada is Second Largest Public Funder of CCS to Date – A Lifeline for Fossil Fuels, Not Climate Action
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference begins today, Oil Change International revealed the failure of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in Carbon Capture’s Publicly Funded Failure. CCS has a 50 year track record of over-promising and under-delivering, and every investment in CCS provides a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry.
COP28 Media Advisory
As we head towards UN Climate Talks in Dubai starting next week, this media advisory outlines our expectations, themes we’ll be covering, upcoming data and briefings, and more.
The 45Q Tax Credit for Carbon Capture & Storage – Costs and Transparency Issues
Researched and written by Doug Koplow (Earth Track) and edited by Lorne Stockman Key Findings: The 45Q tax credit has been greatly expanded in scope and cost since it was first enacted in 2008. There is very little transparency surrounding the amount of tax credit claimed by companies so far. However, what information there … Read More
Over 100 Organizations Urge COP28 President in Open Letter: Rethink Fossil Fuel Strategy
Two weeks prior to COP28, a coalition led by 350.org and Oil Change International, comprising over 100 organizations, express grave concerns in an open letter regarding the energy strategy outlined by the COP28 president in two recent communications.
IEA’s 2023 Net Zero Roadmap Reinforces Urgent Need for a Fossil Fuel Phase-Out
The International Energy Agency’s 2023 Net Zero Roadmap report reaffirms that world leaders must not develop new oil, gas, or coal beyond existing fields – and some existing fields and infrastructure will need to be closed early – to remain within the internationally agreed upon temperature limit.
COP28: Don’t believe ADNOC’s spin over its new climate commitments
At the beginning of 2000s, as concerns about climate change grew, some of the biggest oil companies began to modify their climate change public relations strategies.
“Wrong side of history”: Universal condemnation of UK Gov’s North Sea expansion and CCS plans
For weeks now, climate scientists and activists have looked increasingly aghast at the unrelenting heat and floods ravaging our baking earth. The pace and scale of the daily climate disasters have alarmed them. And our daily climate breakdown shows no sign of stopping.
G7 meeting: 50 actions around the world call on world leaders to stop peddling fossil fuels and false solutions
Hundreds of civil society organisations from dozens of countries have taken to the streets around the world to demand that the G7 stop peddling fossil fuels to developing countries and stop promoting false solutions to the climate crisis.
Response: New U.S. power plant regulations fail to address massive planned fossil fuel expansion
“Until Biden reins in Big Oil’s deadly expansion that’s locking in decades of global fossil fuel pollution, his legacy will remain one of failing to confront reckless U.S. oil and gas production that’s killing the planet,” said Collin Rees.