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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Despite windfall tax and record profits, Shell paid just £15 million to UK, 22p per Brit last year

Government hydrogen plans are dangerous, authoritarian and will push up energy bills “Fossil fuel fingerprints” all over UK Energy Bill

Hydrogen heating is the next energy crisis in the making

North Sea oil workers vote to strike over pay as oil giants operating rigs announce £146 billion profits

The price ain’t right

On the frontlines of Freeport

BP boss lands £10 million in pay whilst energy bills soared

While UK workers strike for fair pay Shell's outgoing CEO takes home £9.7 million in 2022

Myanmar: New shipments of aviation fuel revealed despite the military’s war crimes

One year on: Western companies traded 533 million barrels of Russian oil

Scrap the price cap, ban Russian oil

Shell & Vitol bring Russian-origin diesel into Europe, despite swearing off Russian oil

Fossil fuel greenwash

EU green hydrogen plans “a gold standard for greenwashing” which would burn more fossil fuels

134-billion-dollar windfall for global energy giants

Crisis year 2022 brought $134 billion in excess profit to the West’s five largest oil and gas companies

BP record profits on the back of British suffering

Historic profits for Shell whilst ordinary Brits suffer

Shell faces groundbreaking complaint for misleading US authorities and investors on its energy transition efforts

Energy giant Shell misleading US authorities, investors and the public by labelling fossil fuels as “renewable”

European war leads to historic profits for Exxon

Massive 127% profit rise for Chevron does nothing for ordinary Americans

New emissions data presented at Davos should be used to hold Big Oil to account

Appointment of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company CEO as climate talks President a “blatant conflict of interest”

How Big Oil helped Russia

Exposing the deadly gap between words and action in Russia

Our verdict on COP27: A polluters’ parade

Global Witness demands action from the UN on fossil fuel lobbyists at climate talks

Budget reaction: Chancellor turns blind eye to billions in energy profits that could support British public

“Loss and damage” is not enough: Why we need climate reparations

636 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to COP27

Our methodology for the COP27 fossil fuel lobbyists analysis