Oil Change International is a research, communication, and advocacy organization focused on exposing the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitating the coming transition towards clean energy. We focus on the fossil fuel industry because we view the production and consumption of oil, gas and coal as sources of global warming, human rights abuses, war, national security concerns, corporate globalization, and increased inequality. We also see fossil fuel industry’s interests behind every major barrier to a clean energy transition.We are a small, nimble organization with many decades of staff expertise in campaigns as well as expertise in the economic, financial, social, and environmental issues surrounding the fossil fuel industry. Using this knowledge and experience, we craft strategic, incisive campaigns, supporting a diversity of strategies and tactics to challenge the influence of the fossil fuel industry.

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  “We need a globally just transition” – Dr.Amiera Sawas on Climate Colonialism and Global Justice:https://lnkd.in/djjaavqwIn this episode of Burned: The Price of Oil, hostShady Khalil speaks with Dr. Amiera Sawas, Head of Research and Policy at theFossil Fuel Treaty Initiative. Amiera draws on her decades of experience working at the intersection of climate change, gender justice, and decolonial movements to expose the structural injustices fueling the climate crisis, and the feminist, global majority-led solutions forging the path ahead.Amiera breaks down how fossil fuels are bound to systems of patriarchy, extractivism, and global debt, and why just transition efforts must go beyond technical solutions to confront the root causes of climate and economic injustice.Listen and subscribe now on your favourite podcast app:https://lnkd.in/djjaavqw

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  #COP30 may be over, but the message from the Global South couldn’t be clearer: the private finance-first model has failed.Our data shows blended finance is delivering 4–7x less than promised. It’s leaving frontline communities behind and slowing the transition to renewable energy.A just transition is affordable and within reach—but only if governments step up. That means:➡️ Public planning and funding to accelerate a fossil fuel phase-out➡️ Unlocking $6.6 trillion per year via fair taxes, ending fossil fuel subsidies, and debt cancellation➡️ Transforming global finance rules that keep poorer countries locked out of climate action➡️ We need a publicly funded, justice-rooted transition—and we need it now.Excellent breakdown viaDevex and Claire O’Manique 👇 🔗https://lnkd.in/ebhvBHvR

  As blended finance fails the energy transition, public money is the answer devex.com

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  ReCommon has released a new investigation into the UK government-backed rollout of blue hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) at Stanlow, driven by @hynetnw @eethub andEni.CCS is a dangerous distraction. It doesn’t work, is hugely expensive, energy-intensive, and provides cover for continued fossil fuel extraction.This project would pump CO₂ through communities and under the seabed in Liverpool Bay despite safety concerns.▶️ Watch the video:https://lnkd.in/eV4_umpN#CCS#BlueHydrogen#FossilFuels#ClimateScam#EnergyPolicy#JustTransition

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  HyNet CCS project in Liverpool Bay - Public money wasted?

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  🚨The latest main COP30 text *axes calls for fossil fuel subsidy phaseout*. Another key text concluding three years of talks on aligning financial flows with climate & development goals (Article 2.1(c) of the Paris Agreement), doesn’t mention it either. This is a step back - past global climate conferences called for action to address this waste of public money & obstacle to a fair and funded fossil fuel phaseout.Governments subsidize fossil fuels with $1.3 trillion in public money annually, propping up polluter profits. Meanwhile rich governments claim they don’t have enough public money for climate action and that private finance can fill the gap. But they know this approach has been tried and failed.  To address the lack of collective progress, at COP28, NL launched a coalition to end fossil fuel subsidies (COFFIS). It now has 17 members, including Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, France, Marshall Islands Spain, UK, among others. Two years later, at#COP30 in Belem, COFFIS has little to show for its commitments.🧾Despite pledges, less than half of the signatories have submitted an inventory of their subsidies and only the Netherlands has some semblance of a fossil fuel subsidy phaseout roadmap - one that isn’t comprehensive and lacks ambition. Belgium’s phaseout plan is expected to be published soon.The EU, Canada and other G7 members were supposed to phase-out fossil fuel subsidies by 2025, but instead continue to prop up the industry ⛽But there is reason for hope:🇳🇱 With Rob Jetten, one of COFFIS’ founding fathers, winning the recent Dutch elections🇪🇺 EU Commissioners Hoekstra and Jorgensen tasked to develop fossil fuel subsidy phaseout plans for the EU🇨🇴 🇳🇱 Just announced Colombia and NL-led Summit on a just transition away from fossil fuels in April next year, this is the moment to accelerate progress at full speed. That means action plans, phase out timelines, and actively redirecting freed up public money to adaptation and other climate finance.Climate Action Network (CAN) EuropeUnited For Climate Justice,Milieudefensie,Greenpeace Nederland,Recourse.

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  🔥 ⚖️BREAKING: A major new climate legal opinion has putIFC - International Finance Corporation,The World Bank Treasury (IBRD • IDA),Asian Development Bank (ADB) — and all Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and states around the world that run them — on notice. 🌍📜MDBs and their shareholder governments could be violating international law if they continue to finance fossil fuels and fail to apply robust climate due diligence. ⚠️🏛️ This means: financing fossil fuels must be eliminated immediately — except in truly exceptional cases.Commissioned byBank Climate Advocates, the groundbreaking independent opinion by Drs.Johanna Aleria Lorenzo ofAmsterdam Center for International Law and Jolene Lin ofAsia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) is the first to directly outline the legal duties of MDBs and their member states under international law — including customary obligations and those under the Paris Agreement, human rights treaties, and even the Law of the Sea. ⚖️✨Why this matters:🔹 MDBs play a pivotal role in development + electrification in the Global South🔹 Their decisions will heavily influence whether the world stays below 1.5°C🔹 The recent ICJ Climate Advisory Opinion raises the legal stakes even higherAlongside this release, BCA and 20+ civil society organizations have formally urged IFC, IBRD, ADB, and their member states to align with their legal obligations by:🚫 Stopping financing of fossil fuels🔍 Strengthening climate due diligence to the best available science standard📈 Prioritizing renewable solutions tailored to development needsA simple truth backed by legal force:⛔ Public funds should not worsen the climate crisis.⚠️ MDBs and their member states must align with climate science — or face mounting litigation risks.❌🔥🌍🏛️ BCA and 14 CSOs have also sent a letter to ADB detailing that the Scholars' Legal Opinion authoritatively underscores that if each of ADB’s member states and ADB desire to meet their own climate change legal obligations, amending ADB’s Energy Policy must be postponed well beyond Nov. 24, or that member states should vote against the proposed amendments. ⚖️🔥📌 Scholars Opinion & Letters @bankclimateadvocates.org👉🔗 Read the full coverage byJon Hay ofGlobalCapital here:https://lnkd.in/giAKy_Re📢 Help drive momentum:✅ Share this post✅ Tag climate advocates, WBG, ADB, & MDBsRecourseNGO Forum on ADBAccountability CounselOil Change InternationalGAIA Asia PacificPower Shift AfricaAlternative Law CollectiveUrgewaldActionAidActionAid AustraliaMENA Fem Movement For Economic, Development And Ecological JusticeWorld Council of ChurchesFriends of the Earth U.S.Big Shift GlobalSenik Centre AsiaTrend AsiaIndus ConsortiumCentre for Financial AccountabilitySolutions for Our Climate (SFOC)OxfamSustentarseJubilee Australia Research CentreBretton Woods ProjectIBON InternationalReality of Aid NetworkInternational Institute for Sustainable Development

  Law scholars shine spotlight on MDBs’ climate loopholes globalcapital.com

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  At COP30 we are all too aware of what's at stake for a fair and funded fossil fuel phaseout. A just transition is affordable and within reach. But instead of providing the public funds needed to make it happen, rich countries are derailing the process by putting forward a failed private finance-led approach.In the second episode of our new podcast series, Burned: The Price of Oil,Shady Khalil speaks withShereen Talaat, Founder and Director ofMENA Fem Movement For Economic, Development And Ecological Justice. They explore the global financial system’s deep colonial roots - and how private finance-first approaches to the energy transition trap Global South countries in more debt and fossil fuel dependence.Shereen shares how private finance seeks profit, not justice, and that only public finance, reparations, and debt cancellation can deliver a truly just transition. Speaking from the perspective of the global majority, communities across the Global South who did the least to cause the climate crisis - not the billionaire 1% minority - she calls for climate and colonial reparations to repair centuries of extractivism and exploitation.Listen to the full episode now:https://lnkd.in/dt2JMRxU

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  BREAKING: Another crisis for the controversial Mozambique LNG gas project - today the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) filed a criminal complaint in France against the Mozambique LNG project sponsor TotalEnergies, for complicity in war crimes and torture.TotalEnergies is accused of having directly financed and materially supported a Mozambican army unit, which between July and September 2021 allegedly detained, tortured and killed dozens of civilians on TotalEnergies’ gas site.While the UK Government grandstands about climate change at COP30, it is *still* considering backing the Mozambique LNG project with USD $1.15 billion in taxpayers money viaUK Export Finance.Keir Starmer,Peter Kyle, Ed Miliband, Yvette Cooper - this latest development is proof that you must immediately refuse UK taxpayer support for Mozambique LNG.The full Oil Change International reaction is here:https://lnkd.in/ene78gC6

  Crisis Deepens as Gas Project Considered for UK Taxpayer Support Embroiled in Legal Action Over War Crimes Allegations - Oil Change International oilchange.org

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  COP30 concludes three years of dialogue on one of the Paris Agreement’s core goals: aligning financial flows with climate and development goals (Article 2.1(c)). Now, countries in Belém have to decide what’s next. Ten years post-Paris and one week into COP30, this is the state play:

  Aligning financial flows - all talk, little action? Oil Change International on LinkedIn

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  Will the world will stand with people or polluters? Week One at#COP30 is wrapping up and our team in Belém wants to bring you into the room, behind the scenes, and onto the streets where people demand#ClimateJustice!Read ➡️https://lnkd.in/ey-bxPgW

  COP30 Week One Wrap Up - Oil Change International oilchange.org

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