Germans Unite Against Oil Aid!

March 15, 2007By Andy RowellBlog Post

A group of 40 German NGOs called on G8 Environment Ministers today to phase out fossil fuel subsidies at home and use their influence to steer the World Bank away from fossil fuels and towards a new energy revolution. A long list of German organizations, including the German NGO Forum on Environment and Development, Oxfam … Read More

Development Banks’ Inconvenient Truth

March 15, 2007By Andy RowellBlog Post

Multilateral development banks concluded a two day conference in London yesterday on “Financing Clean Energy”. Non-governmental organizations were generally shut out of the meeting, restricted to a handful of participants, but a long list of oil and energy companies were in attendance and they were ready to discuss just about anything other than phasing out … Read More

Climate Coalition Calls on G8 to End Oil Aid

March 8, 2007By Andy RowellBlog Post

The Climate Action Network (CAN), a worldwide network of over 365 Non-Governmental Organizations working together to fight climate change, called on the G8 today to “start a complete phase out of public financing for fossil fuel operations and oil aid and ensure that International Financial Institutions, such as the World Bank, become leaders in investing … Read More

Euro NGOs Demand World Bank End Oil Aid

March 5, 2007By Andy RowellBlog Post

More than sixty NGOs from 16 countries across Europe launched a campaign today urging European governments to demand an end to World Bank spending on oil and other fossil fuels. The campaign also calls for an end to damaging World Bank economic conditionality and includes, among many others, ActionAid International, Christian Aid, the Jubilee Debt … Read More

What we’ve done…

December 19, 2006By Steve KretzmannBlog Post, Separate Oil and State

Thank you. With your support, we are just more than a year into building an organization that is conducting strategic corporate and educational campaigns to diminish the power of the oil industry. But we need your help to keep challenging Big Oil. We have achieved a lot with a little this year – please read … Read More