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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Over 100 more fossil fuel lobbyists than last year, flooding crucial COP climate talks

Ukrainian activists travel to COP27 to take on the fossil fuel lobby

Report links Wintershall’s gas production & Russian warplanes

Join Global Witness in putting #PeopleNotPolluters first at COP27

BP 12-month profits of £23.4 billion could pay for 9.4 million UK energy bills

Corporate greenwashing tactics to watch out for at COP

Energy giant Shell has already made £31bn in excess profits over past year

New UK oil and gas licences show a government “on the side of BP and Shell” rather than consumers struggling with bills

Shell and BP CEOs set to save a combined £640,000 through tax cuts, whilst average Brit saves just £400

US gas exporters grabbed a wartime windfall from Russia’s attack on Ukraine and dictated Biden’s response to the conflict

Revealed: how gas boiler companies are misleading the public about pipe-dream hydrogen heating

Burning the public: The hydrogen heating pipe dream

Open Letter to the voluntary carbon market integrity initiative

German shipping giant Oldendorff sails close to the wind on Russian coal

Top US gas certifier’s plan for increased gas production exposes hollowness of climate-friendly claims

US gas can’t certify away its climate and environmental justice problems

Heating homes with gas is expensive. Heating with hydrogen could cost double

Gas companies’ plans for hydrogen heating could double energy bills, pushing €240bn bill for new pipelines on to consumers

The problem with hydrogen

Global Witness statement in response to TotalEnergies

Investigation: TotalEnergies’ Siberian oil linked to Russian military attacks on civilians in Ukraine

French cash, Russian fuel, Ukrainian blood

Ukraine, Putin, gas and sanctions - FAQs

Loopholes undermine sanctions: the Russian Shipping Forecast

A transformative loophole: American sanctions fail to screen out Russian-origin petroleum products

German government breaks sanctions regime for Russian gas

“Nature-based solutions”: using digital methods to investigate corporate greenwashing

As sanctions bite, Abramovich associate keeps Russian oil flowing to UK

BASF subsidiary profits from Germany’s Russian gas addiction

“The war in Ukraine, the climate crisis, and the energy crisis have common roots”

Carbon trading continues: What’s wrong with the voluntary market

The offsets distraction from urgent climate action