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21 Aug 2023 3 minute read

Study: Big Oil shareholders’ profits soar as world melts

A new report shows the dramatic rise in cash earnings of shareholders in Britain’s big oil since the Paris Agreement.

21 Jun 2022 4 minute read

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Fighting the fossils

Profiles of groups from Palestine, Mozambique, Uganda and India who are saying no to new oil and gas infrastructure.

Banners wave at the opening ceremony of the People’s World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth near Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 2010. The People’s Agreement signed at the conference called for the Global North to repay a ‘climate debt’ to the Majority World. AIZAR RALDES/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

20 Jun 2022 6 minute read

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A global just transition

How can we phase out fossil fuels in a way that works for people everywhere? The historic Cochabamba People’s Agreement...

19 Jun 2022 6 minute read

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The new greenwashing

Nick Dowson gives the low-down on the latest tricks in corporate spin.

A person draped in a blue, green, red and yellow Mapuche flag stands with their back to the camera, looking towards a gas plant in the distance

16 Jun 2022 5 minute read

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Standing firm against fracking

The Mapuche people in Argentina are saying no to an influx of transnationals trying to frack their lands. Grace...

14 Jun 2022 7 minute read

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Cut and run

Transnational oil companies are looking to leave the Niger Delta without cleaning up their mess. Ken Henshaw...

13 Jun 2022 4 minute read

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Fossil fuels – a journey in time

A short history of dependency.

Passersby walk past a mural in Venezuela showing oil drilling. Oil has made an important contribution to Venezuelan state revenues. JOHN VAN HASSELT/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES

7 Jun 2022 12 minute read

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How we halt Big Oil's climate-wrecking business

We cannot let the fossil fuel industry block urgently needed climate action. Nick Dowson lays out a path to...

Photo by Bureau of Land Management New Mexico

19 Oct 2020 3 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Sun sets on Big Oil

Endtimes for Big Oil. Danny Chivers and Jess Worth have some good news from the frontlines...

5 Aug 2018 2 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

The carbon bubble

Yohann Koshy looks at the impending catastrophe linking the stock market to climate change.

BP or not BP protest in the British Museum.

1 Nov 2017 3 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Melting away with the permafrost

Rev Billy leads a creative protest against BP’s hypocritical museum sponsorship.

5 Jun 2017 6 minute read

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‘Fora Temer’: is it the end for Brazil’s president and neoliberalism champ?

Do not despair if you don’t have a grip on Brazil’s huge scandal. Maria T Noviello argues nothing could have...

1 Mar 2017 5 minute read

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One woman against Big Oil and patriarchy

Alicia Cawiya, an indigenous activist prepared to defy the powerful to save Ecuador’s Yasuní, talks to...

1 Nov 2014 15 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

Ending the oil age

Change is coming. Jess Worth examines whether growing pressure for divestment and disruption can knock Big...