Cop out

COP27 and the demands for climate loss and damage finance. Report by Emma Mckeever.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022

Farmers like Nurul Haq have seen their crops devastated by Assam’s floods.Photo: Gurvinder Singh

Washed out

Report from India by Gurvinder Singh.

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
A Scientist Rebellion march makes its way through The Hague on 6 April 2022, stopping at the Dutch Finance Ministry, the Economy and Climate Ministry and the Foreign Affairs Ministry buildings on the way.Photo: Ana Fernandez/SIPA US/Alamy

Temperature Check

Applied science. Danny Chivers reports on A Scientist Rebellion in The Netherlands.

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NI 538 - Rivers of life - July, 2022
Illustration: Andy Carter

What if...

We said ‘no’ to concrete? The world is turning grey as more and more concrete is poured. Vanessa Baird posits an alternative.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Hundreds of billboards and bus stops – like this one in Brighton, England – have been hacked by activists across Europe as part of the call to #BanFossilAds and stop greenwashing.Design: Noel Douglas. Installation: Brandalism

Temperature Check

Can we banish polluters from our billboards? Words by Danny Chivers.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season exhausted the designated 21-name list of storm names, the third time this has happened and the second such season in a row after 2020. The total damage was estimated at over $80 billion.Images of hurricane Bill and hurricane Nicholas by Theaustinman using a Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 4.0; Hurricane Ida by NOAA (Public Domain); All others by NASA (Public Domain).

Is it too late?

As climate change stretches human fragility towards breaking point, should we be preparing for societal collapse? This is the existential question behind ‘deep adaptation’, a theory that is rapidly gaining adherents. Richard Swift assesses how far, if anywhere, it will take us and what better paths we could go down.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
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.Photo: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images

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 offers a way forward, argues Max Ajl.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Photo: Esther Ruth Mbabazi

Fighting the fossils

Big Oil is throwing money at new fossil fuel infrastructure like there’s no tomorrow. New pipelines, refineries, wells and rigs are being built across all continents. But everywhere the industry goes, it meets resistance. Here are four profiles of groups saying enough is enough. Words by Nick Dowson.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Indigenous spokesperson Lorena Bravo, wrapped in a Mapuche flag, looks towards a gas plant at Campo Maripe, a land claimed by her community, in Anelo, Neuquen province.Photo: Emiliano Lasalvia/AFP via Getty Images

The fracked earth

The Mapuche people in Argentina are saying no to an influx of transnationals trying to frack their lands. Meanwhile the government offers sweetheart deals. Grace Livingstone reports.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022

The new greenwashing

Faced with planetary catastrophe, Big Oil has applied boundless creativity, not to solving the climate crisis but to deflecting action. Nick Dowson dissects the corporate spin.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
The Dooh family on their lake in the Niger Delta which was devastated by an oil spill. The farming family won a case against Shell in the Netherlands, which took 13 years.Photo: Petterik Wiggers/Panos

Cut and run

Pollute, don’t pay. Big Oil has perfected its playbook in the Niger Delta and is now looking to walk away. Ken Henshaw reports.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Photo: Mika Baumeister/Unsplash

Fossil fuels – a journey in time

From the steam engine to the Paris Agreement.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Top 5 oil producing and consuming countries (2020)

Big oil - the facts

New money is being poured into oil and gas despite the harm it causes to people and planet. With more than 1°C of global warming already, the time remaining to change course is short.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Action & info

Action & info

Initiatives, action, and further reading on how to stop big oil.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Wind and solar generation at Phan Rang, Ninh Thuan province, Vietnam.Photo: Quang Ngoc Nguyen/Alamy

Beyond big oil

We cannot let the ever-expanding oil and gas industry stand in the way of urgently needed climate action. Nick Dowson lays out a path to change.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
In South Africa, activists are challenging Shell’s drilling plans along the country’s eastern coastline.Photo: Mike Hutchings/Reuters/Alamy Stock Photo

Temperature check

The ultimate 2022 climate to-do list by Danny Chivers.

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NI 536 - Abolition - March, 2022
More of the same. Insufficient action on climate means more cyclones like Mora, which hit Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in 2017.Photo: Suman Paul Himu/Drik

Loss and damage

Rich countries’ refuse to compensate vulnerable countries.

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NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022
Internationalize it! A girl takes part in a global day of action on climate change in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa in September 2020.Photo: Sumaya Hisham/Reuters

Temperature check

Danny Chivers suggests five useful things you can do during COP26.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
Photo: Sarah Yoon

The Interview: Susan Nakyung Lee

A newly formed citizen’s grouping – Global Assembly – wants a snapshot of humanity to air its views directly to policymakers at this year’s UN climate conference. Amy Hall speaks to one of its organizers, Susan Nakyung Lee, about the limits and potential of democracy.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021

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Rivers of life July, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
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How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
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How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
Abolition March, 2022
Romani lives matter January, 2022
The future of work November, 2021
The future of work November, 2021
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