Fossil fuels

Billions of people around the world are already experiencing the devastating impacts of a warming world. Extreme weather, floods, droughts, and wildfires are becoming more frequent and intense.

Volatile energy markets cause endless crises and price spikes, making the cost of living unaffordable for many. CEOs enjoy record profits.

Around the world, authoritarian regimes are bulldozing human rights and starting wars of aggression against neighbouring countries.

We know what’s causing these disasters. Fossil fuels are threatening the future of life on earth.

For years, the fossil fuel industry has told the public and politicians that we need oil and gas. That we cannot heat our homes or fuel our transport without them.

They spent decades denying the science of the climate crisis. Then they worked with PR agencies to greenwash their image. Now, they’re using the windfall from the war in Ukraine to invest in new oil and gas and reward their shareholders.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

We’ve spent years investigating the fossil fuel industry. We unveiled documents which resulted in the historic OPL245 corruption trials of Shell and Eni for their business dealings in Nigeria.

More recently, we've been exposing the industry’s complicity in the war in Ukraine.

We revealed links between TotalEnergies’ gas production and Russian military supply chains, sparking an historic criminal complaint for complicity in war crimes. 

We exposed the industry’s attempts to replace piped gas with Russian LNG, leading to new EU rules which allow countries to ban it. 

And we’ve campaigned to close the refining loophole which allows Russian oil to flow around the world and back into Western markets, leading to a bi-partisan bill in the United States aimed at strengthening sanctions.

The industry is working hard to delay climate action, and we exposed the massive scale of lobbying at COP26, 27 & 28. That led the UN to make the process more transparent, and now it’s easier to spot fossil fuel lobbyists at the climate summits.

We’re pushing to make oil companies pay for the damage they’ve caused and for the energy transition, while holding their executives to account for their extortionate salaries.

Change is possible. We have alternative energy sources. The technologies and expertise exist to harness the earth’s natural elements – wind, sun, water.

For the sake of the climate, prosperity and peace, we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground.