A Call For A Fair Shares Agreement: Will Justice Prevail in Paris?

This is a guest op-ed by Nathan Thanki, Lidy Nacpil, and Asad Rehma, Coordinating Team, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice For most people the word justice conjures up images of superheroes and supreme courts. It seems a grand notion with little bearing on the practicalities of daily life. And when applied to the climate crisis it seems […]

Government ‘Ramps Up’ Fossil Fuel Subsidies to Nearly £6 billion

The government has been found to be offering some of the largest subsidies to the fossil fuel industry out of all the G20 nations, according to a new report.  The study estimated that the UK has provided £5.9bn a year of support during 2013 and 2014 to prop up the fossil fuel industry. The majority of this financial support is […]

Meet the Climate Scientists Travelling by Bike and Foot from the Poles to Paris

Two twenty-something climate scientists are currently running and cycling their way from the Antarctic and Arctic all the way to Paris. Travelling a combined distance of 20,000 kilometres, the two scientists – plus team members joining them along the way – are working to raise awareness about climate change ahead of December’s Paris climate conference. Meet Dr […]

TransCanada's Next Move After Keystone XL: Flood Mexico with Fracked Gas with State Department Help

TransCanada, the owner of the recently-nixed northern leg of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, has won a bid from Mexico’s government to build a 155-mile pipeline carrying gas from hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the United States to Mexico’s electricity grid.  The company has benefited from Mexico’s energy sector privatization promoted by the U.S. State Department, the […]

Everything You Need to Know About Energy and Climate Secretary Amber Rudd Before COP21: Part 1

Amber Rudd will be leading the British team of negotiators at Paris as the world’s leaders meet to decide the fate of the planet. The secretary of state was just this week accused of misleading Parliament about the state of the country’s renewable energy target as the chasm between her declared commitments to climate change and […]

ExxonMobil Gave 15 Top UK Universities More Than £2.36m

ExxonMobil has invested more than £2.36 million in 15 top UK universities over the last five years, figures show. The University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and Oxford University are the top three recipients of Exxon’s fossil fuel funding. According to data recently released by a Greenpeace investigation, Cambridge received £660,088 from the oil giant, while […]

Fossil Fuel Industry’s Bad Behaviour in Spotlight During Run-up to Paris Climate Negotiations

As leaders from around the world head to Paris in December for the COP21 UN climate negotiations, they do so with the burdensome knowledge that this is it: the big year. More than 190 nations will try to reach an internationally binding climate agreement to prevent the globe from warming to catastrophic levels. Such high stakes […]

Amber Rudd Has ‘Misled’ Parliament, Confirms UK is Unlikely to Meet 2020 Renewable Energy Target

Energy and Climate Secretary Amber Rudd has today confirmed that the UK doesn’t have the right policies in place to meet its legally binding 2020 renewable energy target. “There is insufficient evidence that we are going to make the target for 2020 unless we take certain action,” Rudd told the Energy and Climate Change Committee hearing […]

Poll Shows African Americans Support Clean Power Plan and Climate Action, But Not Exxon-Funded National Black Chamber of Commerce

One tactic of the fossil fuel industry’s attack on the proposed Clean Power Plan is to say it unfairly targets minority communities when in fact the opposite is true. Industry-funded groups like the National Black Chamber of Commerce are among the groups making these claims. In the past National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) president Harry […]

Fossil Fuel Companies Dominate EU Meetings on Climate and Energy Policy, Report Shows

Big energy and fossil fuel companies are enjoying privileged access to the EU’s top climate policy decision makers in the run-up to December’s Paris climate conference a new report reveals. The report by transparency research and campaign group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) looks at all meetings held by Commissioners Miguel Arias Cañete and Maros Šefčovič during […]