Tag: OIl
Investing In Disaster
A new briefing by Oil Change International, Investing in Disaster reveals that new oil and gas production approved to date in 2022 and at risk...
40% of Developed Fossil Fuel Reserves Must Stay in the Ground
New research shows that nearly 40% of developed fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground to keep the global 1.5ºC target alive...
Calling on Banks: Don’t Finance East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)
Over 260 organizations are calling on banks to not finance EACOP (East African Crude Oil Pipeline) with a $2.5 billion loan for a "manifestly...
Gasoline Breakup: Gasoline, Gasoline, the World’s Aflame
The world urgently needs to break up with gasoline. And a song is a great way to get people to sing along and get...
The Boundless Greed of The Fossil Fuel Industry
We are pleased to welcome Patrick Derochie as a new contributor to Below2°C. Patrick is a Program Manager with Environmental Defence. In this first post, he...
Where Are Canadian Fossil Fuel Subsidies Coming From and Going To?
In 2009, G20 leaders pledged to phase-out fossil fuel subsidies. But the information presented in the 2015 OIC (Oil Change International) report, Empty Promises: G20 susidies...
The Goalposts Have Shifted on Fossil Fuels
'Shifting goalposts' is the title of one of the chapters of The Carbon Bubble, What Happens to Us When it Bursts, authored by Jeff Rubin. Rubin...
Attacks on Divestment by Fossil Fuel Lobby Backfiring
The fossil-fuel divestment movement is gaining momentum as people around the globe are waking up to the reality that climate change is upon us. It...
The Whole Truth About the Oil Crash
I'm pleased to welcome J.L. Morin as a contributor to BoomerWarrior.Org. Morin, a Harvard graduate, is now adjunct faculty at Boston University. Her writing has been...