Activists from Global Justice Now demand that the UK government exit the Energy Charter Treaty during a protest in London on 4 November 2022. In February this year, the UK announced it would leave the Treaty.Photo: Andrea Domeniconi/Alamy

Temperature Check

Polls, public pressure and pipelines. A round-up of some key climate news by Danny Chivers.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
People from the Waoraní Indigenous community attend an event promoting a ‘yes’ vote in a referendum on not extracting oil in Quito, Ecuador, on Monday 14 August 2023.Photo: AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa/Alamy

Temperature Check

‘A victory for life over capitalism’. How the people of Ecuador beat the oil giants and saved Yasuní National Park, by Danny Chivers.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
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Extractive delusions

Fungi have been touted as an alternative to plastics – but it’s dangerous to see them solely as a product, argues Emma McKeever.

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NI 542 - A world to win - March, 2023
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
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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
Home under threat: Endangered savanna elephants have a migratory corridor in the Kavango region.Photo: A Curious Ape

Paradise lost?

A vast area of Namibia and Botswana is under threat from oil and gas exploration. Devastating consequences are feared for the people, wildlife and natural environment. Graeme Green reports on the fight to keep Kavango alive.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
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Shadow courts

Juliet Ferguson investigates the Energy Charter Treaty, an international agreement which could be very bad news for energy policy across the Global South.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea.Photo: NASA

Prising open the arctic

Norway presses ahead with a large-scale auction of oil exploration licences in the Barents Sea.

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NI 530 - Democracy on the edge - March, 2021
Democracy vs oil

Democracy vs oil

Report from Italy by Alessio Perrone.

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NI 521 - Who owns the sea? - September, 2019

The carbon bubble

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

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NI 514 - The next financial crisis - July, 2018
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Introducing... João Lourenço

Angola has its first new president in nearly 40 years, but bringing change might prove difficult as long as the economy remains dependent on diamonds and oil. Richard Swift reports.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
Nigeria: No slick deal

Nigeria: No slick deal

In the first case of its kind, a small Nigerian community is taking on oil giant Eni in the Italian courts. By Francesca Gater

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NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017

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Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Spying on dissent November, 2023
A world to win March, 2023
Railways September, 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
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
The future of work November, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
Who owns the sea? September, 2019
The next financial crisis July, 2018
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
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