“They have amassed untold wealth off the back of death, destruction, and spiraling energy prices,” a Global Witness investigator said of a new analysis. By Olivia Rosane Feb 19, 2024 As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine approaches its second anniversary, one group has clearly benefited: the five biggest U.S. and European oil and gas companies. […]
Many hailed the COP28 summit hosted by UAE as ‘historic’ because everyone signed up to transitioning away from fossil fuels in an attempt to reach global net zero emissions by 2050. Others lambasted the final agreement for being weak because it failed to commit countries to the tougher job of phasing out fossil fuels altogether. Alaa […]
By Steve Pye, UCL According to the president of COP28, the latest round of UN climate negotiations in the United Arab Emirates, there is “no science” indicating that phasing out fossil fuels is necessary to restrict global heating to 1.5°C. President Sultan Al Jaber is wrong. There is a wealth of scientific […]
Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuels are causing catastrophic climate change, and threaten to destroy all human life on our planet. Simply, climate change is the single greatest threat facing our species since our emergence as a species a half million years ago. It is a bigger threat than the biggest of our […]