🚨 Breaking news from the #UNGA sidelines: 🇨🇴 Colombia will host the 1st International Conference on the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026 Read our press release to learn more: fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-conference #FossilFuelTreaty #PhaseOutSummit #FossilFreeFuture #ClimateJustice #UNGA

Billionaire & fossil fuel company wealth keeps rising and so does THE AMOUNT OF MONEY WE CAN TAKE BACK TO DO GOOD THINGS WITH IT 🦾 Since we first did this calculation last year the total has risen 24% (from $5.3 tn) (!!) @priceofoil.bsky.social #DrawtheLine #TaxtheRich #FundOurFuture

🚨New research🚨Rich countries can unlock $6.6 trillion for climate action by ending fossil fuels handouts, making polluters pay, defunding wars, taxing the super rich. There’s no shortage of $$ for action. It’s just in the wrong hands. #FixtheFinance ➡️ Read more: oilchange.org/we-can-pay-for-it/

🚨 BREAKING: Governments plan to produce over 2x the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C, says the new #ProductionGap Report. Read the report here: productiongap.org 🧵 youtu.be/k7PkESU_1r4

🚨 BREAKING NEWS Ahead of #COP30, people power moves UNFCCC to take next steps to address industry interference. Non-governments must publicly disclose funding and if they are fully aligned with the #UNFCCC. No more writing the rules of climate action. #KickBigPollutersOut

Welfare for an industry that makes hundreds of billions in profits and ravages the climate is civilizational self-harm. End it now. Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column about the new study from @collinrees.bsky.social & @oilchange.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

🚨🚨🚨 Our *new research* finds that the U.S. federal government gives the fossil fuel industry a whopping $35 BILLION of handouts every single year, even as working families struggle with the rising cost of housing, groceries, and utilities. oilchange.org/paying-for-c...

Nieuwe asielregels laten gezinnen met kinderen op straat belanden. Geen opvang, ondanks Europees recht dat bescherming garandeert. Een samenleving die kinderen in tentjes of kraakpanden laat slapen, faalt.

"The deal deepens Egypt’s reliance on Israeli gas at a time when many Egyptians are angry at Israel’s offensive and disappointed that Cairo has not done more to alleviate the suffering of starving Gazans." www.ft.com/content/d699...

🚨 BREAKING: @hynotnw.bsky.social is taking the UK Government to court. Why? Because they’re throwing £22 BILLION at CCS & hydrogen schemes that would lock us into more fossil fuels and impact communities. Here’s what you need to know 🧵👇 #StopHyNet www.hynot.uk/category/med...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... by @dpcarrington.bsky.social.

🚨BREAKING: World’s Highest Court Tells Countries to Halt Emissions Faster and Protect the Climate Press Release: oilchange.org/news/worlds-... #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

👏 The world's highest court has ruled that states have legal duties to act on climate change and that inaction violates human rights. A huge victory for the planet, for the future, and led by the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change. #ClimateICJAO #ClimateJustice

🌍 BREAKING: Climate impunity ends today - by order of the world’s highest court. The International Court of Justice has spoken: ✅ States are legally obliged to act ✅ Inaction = human rights violation ✅ Polluters must be held accountable This is a legal revolution for our planet.

66/ 🎆 What a clear ruling today! What a victory for #ClimateJustice! On fossil fuels, right to a healthy environment, historic responsibility, compensation, duties of States withdrawing from Paris: the Court's affirmation of legal principles will enable a new era of accountability.

52/🚨The Court then delivers a powerful statement: failure of a state to take appropriate action to regulate fossil fuel consumption, the granting of fossil fuel licences, fossil fuel subsidies may constitute an internationally wrongful act which is attributable to that state

32/ The Court concludes that, under the UN Climate Agreemnt, the standard of diligence related to the national mitigation ambition is *stringent*.

25/ Through this clear statement, the Court puts to rest - hopefully once and for all - the bad faith legal argument used by polluters to claim that the climate agreements protect them from accountability for climate harms. 🪦R.I.P. Lex Specialis argument in climate justice cases

10/ 🔥Judge Iwasawa Yuji quotes straight from the IPCC: "Warming of 1.5°C is not considered 'safe' for most nations, communities, ecosystems and sectors, and poses significant risks to natural and human systems." - this is a very strong basis for the Court's legal conclusions!

12/ On the material scope of this legal inquiry, the court affirms that it will address the full range of human activities that contribute to climate change as a result of the emission of GHGs including both consumption and production activities. - this is promising!

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales. This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide. We are doing this and history will never forgive us. Gaza:

Mozambique LNG is a known site of environmental and human rights violations – and the US Export-Import Bank (EXIM) approved billions of tax dollars to fund this project without proper environmental review, economic assessments, or public input. We're taking them to court.

"Any investment in new fossil fuels now is a fool’s gamble, while joining the race to renewables can only bring benefits – not just jobs and cheaper energy at stable prices, but energy independence and access where it’s needed most", says @billhare.bsky.social on @theguardian.com.

Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live

We’re in Seville, it’s 41C, and world leaders are starting to arrive for Financing for Development. This UN gathering happens once a decade to set major rules and goals for global finance, debt, tax & trade. Here’s our running thread on major developments. #FfD4People #TaxTheSuperRich #JusticeForAll

NEW: We use the US gov's own analytical tools to show that LNG expansion is set to drive up global GHG emissions by displacing renewable energy and increasing fossil fuel consumption in importing markets (1/2) @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social @earthworks.bsky.social

🚨NEW BRIEFING🚨 As the UK prepares to decide on supporting the controversial Mozambique #LNG with $1.15 billion of taxpayer money, our new report shows 🚫 disastrous consequences of funding the project. Read the full PR oilchange.org/news/new-rep...

At NY climate week in 2022, a sr person working in philanthropy said to me "we need to figure out how to get the climate movement to push JPMorganChase to finance more windmills." It's been haunting me ever since, so we wrote a report & it's in @financialtimes.com c/o @alanbeattie.bsky.social🧵

🚨 New data 🚨 ⚠️”Blended finance” plans by rich gov’ts & international institutions that rely heavily on private finance for #JustTransition are attracting 4-7 times LESS investment than promised. More in report: oilchange.org/publications...

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 Fast, Fair and Forever: How public finance can supercharge a just energy transition 💡 Why public finance must lead ⚖️ How to ensure the transition is just 🌍 What countries are already doing right 👇 Read now → stampoutpoverty.org/wf_library_p... 1/5

🚨 New report 🚨 An over-reliance on private finance to fund a just energy transition is prolonging the fossil fuel era. Only 38% of the $5.7 trillion in global annual funding needed is flowing. ➡️Read more oilchange.org/publications...

5/ By transitioning to #RenewableEnergy instead of expanding Europe’s dependence on LNG, EU Commissioners can lead & show the world that we don’t need to rely on fossil fuels that are causing #ClimateChange and bringing health crises, environmental degradation & economic disparities to communities.

Today, 188 U.S. groups called on EU Commissioners to refuse to bow to the Trump administration's pressure to increase reliance on U.S. #LNG & other fossil fuel imports. The EU must avoid sinking public money into risky, expensive & environmentally destructive U.S. LNG. oilchange.org/news/letter-...

Great coverage of our 🆕report on funding the #JustTransition away from fossil fuels in the @FT today. Say it with us: “Public money is a non-negotiable part of the green transition." 💸 www.ft.com/content/8e5f...

Today, 188 groups based in communities burdened by gas infrastructure and their allies throughout #US sent a letter to #EU Commissioners asking them not to bow to Trump’s pressure to increase #LNG or other fossil fuel imports from the US. ➡️Read PR oilchange.org/news/letter-...

The latest @iea.org report repeats the decade-old fallacy that the #LNG industry is on the cusp of cleaning up its act, even though it has consistently refused to do so. oilchange.org/news/new-iea...

After 2 days of disagreements at the #Bonn climate negotiations, negotiators just reached a compromise and the talks can officially kick-off. It should come as no surprise that climate finance resurfaced and has held up the talks after last year's NCQG debacle in Baku. oilchange.org/news/oil-cha...

🚨 JUST RELEASED: Our analysis of COFFIS @iisd.org inventories is out — and the results are alarming. Only 3 of the 12 original COFFIS members submitted real fossil fuel subsidy inventories. 👉 Read more: stopfossilsubsidies.eu/coffis-obser... #StopFossilSubsidies

The #EU and #UK are stopping the global south from having a say by blocking UN-led #debt reform in #FfD4 outcome document. 👎 Our press release: www.eurodad.org/eu_and_uk_bl...

As @consilium.europa.eu meets today, a reminder - more #LNG will lock EU into climate chaos & insecurity. Gas dependency = energy insecurity. In the 📷: clip from last week’s #BreakFreeFromGas action + a strong warning from MEP @juttapaulus.bsky.social on the danger of weaker methane rules!

🚨 NEW 🚨 Four rich Global North countries are responsible for nearly 70% of projected CO2 pollution from new oil and gas 2025 - 2035, equal to 3X the annual emissions of all the world’s coal power plants combined. oilchange.org/blogs/planet...

📢Ahead of Monday's Energy Council, together with more than 70 civil society organisations, we sent a letter to EU energy ministers to say no to a "simplification" of Methane Regulation -our crucial tool in reporting, tracking & tackling methane emissions! Read more 🔗 caneurope.org/content/uplo...

As the mid-year climate negotiations kick off in Bonn activists gather outside the conference center to urge negotiators to show their humanity and call for a #FreePalestine. No #climatejustice without Palestinian liberation.

Fair finance is vital to help countries transition away from fossil fuels, scale up clean energy, & advance energy efficiency. Policies including shifting financial flows from fossil fuels & polluter taxes, can help raise public money. New brief: www.iisd.org/publications...

🚨New briefing 🚨 Ahead of #SB62 in Bonn next week, @energy.iisd.org and Oil Change International set out key recommendations for negotiators to advance a fast, fair and fully funded fossil fuel phase-out. ➡️Read our briefing: www.iisd.org/publications...

1/ New briefing ahead of Bonn #SB62 climate negotiations kicking off tomorrow. To support a fair & funded fossil fuel phaseout rich countries must: 🚫 Put a halt to fossil fuel expansion & ensure a managed phase out of existing production 💰 Scale up climate finance, prioritizing grants not loans

Swapping Putin’s gas for Trump’s gas, or any other gas, does nothing for energy security, it just changes who can extort the EU – and communities near extraction sites pay with their health, while people in Europe pay with their wallets The EU must break free from gas completely

Replacing one source of polluting gas with another is a disaster for the climate, and for households’ energy bills But some European energy ministers are determined to strip away rules on methane pollution to do just that – to facilitate polluting liquified gas imports from the US

In the @consilium.europa.eu‬, some want to weaken the EU Methane Regulation - clearing the way for more dirty #LNG! We don’t need more #fossilgas. It destroys people & planet, and exposes us to volatile markets. Ahead of June 16 Energy Council we say: #PhaseOutGas! 💥