After decades of ignoring and denying climate change and undermining climate action, the fossil fuel sector’s latest ploy is how to become “part of the solution.”

As 2020 kicks off, oil majors are responding to their eroding social licence with a “high tide of greenwashing,” as AFP recently put it.

Welcome to our final OilWire of 2019! For this busy time of year, we’ve kept it to a few new headlines, from Goldman Sachs ruling out financing for Arctic oil extraction to the “f-words” finally surfacing at UN climate talks.

The Production Gap report adds a major new piece to the growing body of research showing that tackling fossil fuel production is critical to meeting the Paris goals.

Global Energy Monitor released a new report this month that unpacks the results of its survey of proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals around the world. As CNN summed it up, the results show a massive LNG buildout on a “collision course” with global climate goals.

This week, both Shell and BP claimed that their plans are aligned with the Paris Agreement, while diverting attention away from what really counts towards meeting it: reducing actual carbon emissions.

“When I use Google Maps, it gives me several options, but I usually take the one it highlights without thinking too much about it. Do energy and climate road maps work the same way?,” asked Liam Denning in a recent column for Bloomberg. In the text that follows, Denning lays out why more than 60 prominent business leaders, investors, and climate scientists sent a letter to the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) earlier this month.