As we near election day, it is essential that, whichever party is in government on July 5th 2024, they have a clear, comprehensive and ambitious plan for phasing out UK fossil fuel production and use in a rapid and equitable manner.
Infographics
Fossil Fuels Fail Africa — The Case for a Just Transition on the Continent
A new infographic reveals how fossil-fueled development bypasses African communities, but also illustrates the continent’s potential for a just transition. As Africa holds 39 percent of global renewable energy potential, governments and banks must shift their climate finance commitments towards a renewable just transition in Africa.
Wrong again API! A Paris-aligned scenario means less oil and gas
The American Petroleum Institute (API) falsely claims that oil and gas will be leading energy sources in 2040, even in a Paris-aligned scenario. We show how API gets it wrong.
Infographic: Who really pays for BP’s arts sponsorship?
Government handouts to boost BP’s private profits massively exceed the firm’s sponsorship of the arts – it’s time to cut these dirty ties once and for all.
Infographic: Subsidies Propping Up Oil Profits & Polluting the Climate
Subsidies: Propping Up Oil Profits & Polluting the Climate Oil Change International & Sierra Club January 2017 DOWNLOAD INFOGRAPHIC Almost half of all oil production expected to come online in the United States is only economic if the public props up private investments with taxpayer handouts. The other half of oil production would happen even … Read More
Infographic: Gov’ts Funding Fossils over Climate Finance
A handful of wealthy countries are still funding fossil fuels instead of climate action, giving 3.6 times more public money to prop up fossil fuels than they’re giving to developing countries to address climate change.
Kerry’s State Department Ignored Obama’s Climate Action Plan
In 2009, President Obama made a commitment to reduce U.S. greenhouse gases by 17 percent by 2020. The Obama administration put this forward as the U.S. share of a global effort to limit climate change to no more than two degrees Celsius – the target scientists tell us may be safe. Achieving this target, which … Read More
Infographic: Piling up Keystone XL’s Petcoke
New Infographic! There are many reasons that the Keystone XL pipeline will clearly exacerbate the problem of climate pollution…but one that is often overlooked at our peril is the problem of petroleum coke (aka “petcoke”).
New Analysis: Fossil fuel subsidies five times greater than climate finance
Here in Doha for the UN climate negotiations, we’ve just released new analysis that shows that fossil fuel subsidies in rich countries are, on average, five times greater than those same countries’ pledges towards climate finance.
Oil’s new supply boom is a bust for the climate
What if you knew that smoking that one last packet of cigarettes was going to give you cancer? Imagine if our understanding of cancer was so precise as to allow doctors to predict with virtual certainty that smoking that particular pack, which you just picked up at the corner store, would definitely be the last … Read More
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