The 28th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – COP28 – reflects a challenge and an opportunity for the global community. The need for binding commitments to phase out all fossil fuels is more urgent than ever. All countries must transition to highly efficient renewable energy systems based on solar … Read More
International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Energy Report and IEA Summit 2023
Heading to the International Energy Agency Climate and Energy Summit on October 2nd, in Spain and the United Nations Climate Change Conference in United Arab Emirates experts from Asia, Africa, North America, and Latin America provide insights from their region on how any new oil, gas, or coal extraction projects are incompatible with the 1.5ºC … Read More
5 STEPS TO PHASE OUT FOSSIL FUELS FOR A RENEWABLE ENERGY FUTURE
Record heat, deadly wildfires, droughts, mega storms, and floods are now wreaking havoc around the world on a daily basis. The climate crisis is impossible to ignore. Oil, gas, and coal are to blame. And yet, fossil fuel companies plan to extract more oil, and gas, and coal globally than ever. Governments can and must … Read More
We are not in an energy crisis, we are in a fossil fuel crisis” — advocates discuss status of fossil fuels at onset of COP27 climate negotiations
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT — COP27 is being held in Egypt as the world faces a number of interconnected crises: deepening climate impacts, widespread food shortages, sky-high energy prices, increasing inequality, and deadly conflict. As the UN climate negotiations begin, advocates today held a press conference to discuss a root cause of many of these challenges — the … Read More
OilWire #37: A momentous year for oil and gas supply
2021: A momentous year for oil and gas supply The last 12 months have been a breakthrough year on the issue of oil and gas production. Reports like the International Energy Agency’s that found there should be no new oil and gas projects, important government and private sector announcements to curb production, along with numerous … Read More
OilWire #36: COP26: A breakthrough on oil and gas?
THE BIG PICTURE For all the hype going into COP26 in Glasgow, many of us around the world feel badly let down as once again as many key voices were excluded and the decisions failed to adequately address the scale of the crisis, especially for those in the most vulnerable countries. Despite these frustrations, COP26 … Read More
Oilwire #35: Oil and gas phaseout on the agenda ahead of COP26
THE BIG PICTURE As COP26 fast approaches, the increasingly urgent need to phase out oil and gas production was brought into sharp focus again this month by the annual release of two major reports. First out of the gate, the International Energy Agency (IEA) published the stark conclusion that there is no room for new … Read More
OilWire #34: Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance launches
THE BIG PICTURE September saw a landmark political development with Denmark and Costa Rica announcing they will form the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA). The diplomatic initiative will bring together countries and jurisdictions that have ended licensing for new oil and gas exploration and production and are setting an end date for their production. … Read More
OilWire #33: Past time to step off the gas
THE BIG PICTURE November’s global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, less than 90 days away, will reveal a lot about the sincerity of countries’ and companies’ net zero or other climate pledges. For example, will they heed the science, recently underlined by the International Energy Agency (IEA), that new fossil fuel extraction projects are incompatible … Read More
OilWire #32: More than a ‘bad day’ for Big Oil?
This final nail in the Keystone XL pipeline’s coffin is a tremendous victory for all the Indigenous communities, landowners, farmers, ranchers, and climate activists along its route and around the world who have fought this project for over a decade.