Fossil Fuels

Fossil fuel companies have our future in a chokehold. They’ve captured our politicians’ ears, infiltrated climate summits and fuelled and funded war. All this while preserving their industry’s eyewatering profits, even as our planet becomes a perilous place to live.

More people than ever are suffering from the effects of climate breakdown, with deadly wildfires, heatwaves, storms and floods making large parts of the world uninhabitable. Yet rather than scale back their planet-wrecking operations, fossil fuel companies keep cutting new deals and peddling false solutions. We cannot allow their greed to seal our fate. We’re exposing how far fossil fuel companies will go to protect their shareholders’ wealth – even if they end up dragging us all into climate chaos.

Fossil Fuels

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European demand driving $1 trillion spending on gas production worldwide this decade

Oil and gas companies in the ‘Decarbonisation Pact’ plan to torch 60% of remaining carbon budget

Russian oil, Ukrainian steel: How two companies owned by one of Britain's richest men trade with both Moscow and Kyiv

UK’s North Sea fossil fuel exports have soared despite licencing bonanza

COP29 host country priming the pumps for a huge hike in gas production

Bad Case of Déjà Vu as Former Oil Executive to Lead COP29 Climate Negotiations in Azerbaijan

The US moves to fix a sanctions loophole - and further support Ukraine

COP28 verdict: After 28 attempts, governments finally agree to ”transition away” from fossil fuel use

COP28 host UAE invites fossil fuel bosses set to produce 25 billion barrels of oil this decade

Record number of fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to COP28 climate talks

French giant TotalEnergies implicated in intimidation of communities affected by controversial oil pipeline

COP28 president Sultan Al-Jaber’s company will become the second largest oil producer on Earth

A vital step towards getting the EU off fossil gas

Global Witness and COP28: People not Polluters

EU Commission unveils subsidy plans for hydrogen infrastructure, opening up Europe to fossil gas lock-in

Equinor, Shell and RWE’s plans to flood Europe with fossil hydrogen may receive EU taxpayer support

Fossil fuel lobbyists attend UN climate talks more than 7000 times as part of decades-long campaign to influence climate action

Carbon capture: The oil lobby’s Trojan horse at COP28

What is carbon capture and storage? CCS easily explained

American purchases of laundered Russian oil worth at least $180 million to the Kremlin

U.S. Congress moves to close Russian oil ‘refining loophole’

COP28 President Al Jaber’s oil company ADNOC will take 340 years to capture the carbon it produces by 2030

Investigation reveals the EU’s ‘Russian oil loophole’ contributing an estimated €1.1 billion in taxes to Kremlin

Russian oil on EU soil: Bulgarian refinery skirts sanctions and buys Russian crude worth an estimated €1.1 billion in tax to the Kremlin

Oil firms bankroll Azerbaijan’s warring regime with billions in fossil fuel money

King's Speech: UK refineries could reject up to half of North Sea Oil by 2035

Shell Q3: Shell has paid shareholders £30 billion since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

BP Q3: BP has paid shareholders £20 billion during the UK’s energy crisis

ExxonMobil Q3: Huge $54 Billion Shareholder Payouts During Inflation Crisis

Q3 Chevron’s $20 billion 2023 shareholder payout eclipses renewables investment 20x

TotalEnergies Q3: Pays Shareholders a Massive €25 Billion since Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine

BAFTA-winning oil executive outshone by Greta Thunberg at £1 trillion London oil conference