To coincide with the “GX Week” in Japan, a network of civil society groups from across the region and Global South have come together to call for Japan to stop financing false solutions and delaying the just transition to clean energy.
Climate Change
Sweden restricts international oil and gas finance to deliver on climate commitment
As the deadline for implementing the Glasgow Statement looms, the Swedish export credit agencies, SEK and EKN, have released an updated policy. A previously-released policy aligned Swedfund – the Swedish development finance institution – with the Glasgow Statement. SEK and EKN’s new policy ends almost all support to fossil fuels by 31st December 2022, with some limited exemptions.
Climate criminals meet in Brussels as explosive documents show Big Oil’s climate pledges are based on spin and “deception”
This morning in the luxurious Plaza Hotel in Brussels, many of the world top oil firms assembled for a conference on “Go Net Zero Energy.” But newly released internal documents reveal that Big Oil messaging on climate change and net zero are based on spin and “deception”.
Experts warn fracking in UK is neither safe, viable, nor popular and “amounts to climate suicide”
Last week, new British Prime Minister outlined plans to frack in the UK. However, experts, scientists, activists, NGO’s and even Truss’s own MPs, believe that fracking will fail in the UK.
New study suggests we are heading for 2-3 degrees warming, making “climate tipping points” irreversible
Last week, a new scientific report was published looking at climate tipping points. As one of the authors notes: “The 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”.
Britain’s new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, will be a “disaster” for the climate
Today Britain has a new Prime Minister, Liz Truss. As Truss takes the top job after winning the Conservative election race, she is under intense pressure to deliver on a range of issues, including the cost of living crisis and soaring energy prices.
China experiences “worst heatwave ever recorded”
In a year when climate records – from floods, fire and drought – are being shattered daily like shards of glass, there is one country that beats them all: China. The country is experiencing a heatwave like no other.
Big Oil’s global climate scenarios will “bust” 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.
Cheniere’s new LNG greenwashing scheme exposes the deep flaws in industry’s methane strategy
Oil Change International and Greenpeace USA released a report today raising serious questions about both the methodology and the intent of Cheniere’s so called cargo emission tags or CETs.
UK shreds climate credibility in race for new Prime Minister
They say that politicians often operate in a bubble, removed from the rest of us. They have a blinkered view of reality, distorted by privilege and power.