Asking for a climate income to tackle climate change.
Rosebank has been given the go ahead today despite the repeated warnings of the IEA. The approval is in no small part due to the fact that there is no price on pollution at the point of production. Ironically the windfall tax has not disincentivised further development because the “investment allowance” allows companies to claim…
The IMF, Carbon Pricing and Explicit and Implicit Fossil Fuels Subsidies Here are two terms that anyone who wants to preserve a stable climate needs to know: explicit fossil fuel subsidies and implicit fossil fuel subsidies. Explicit fossil fuel subsidies from governments directly reduce the price of fossil fuels, thus making it attractive to investors…
SEPT. 1, 2023 — In light of a recently released UN letter alluding to human rights violations by oil giant Saudi Aramco, Citizens’ Climate International is calling on all fossil fuel companies to immediately develop future business strategies that reduce rather than increase the manufacture of climate-altering fuels. (Shell and BP have also reined back…
With heat extremes removing all doubt about climate change, let’s deal with the cause: Fossil fuels By Steve Valk With record-shattering heat making headlines around the world, this is a good time to connect some dots to see what’s behind the weather extremes affecting people this summer and what needs to be done to keep…
Despite all the evidence that the world can’t remain below 1.5C of global warming if new oil and gas exploitation continues, yesterday the UK Government gave the go ahead for exploration and production in the North Sea. The Government argues that it is essential for energy security, will ensure prices can be lessened and that…
Citizens’ Climate International, the umbrella group to which we are affiliated, has this year been involved in an action to support the transformation of the World Bank Group needed for the 21st century. There is a growing awareness and acceptance by the World Bank Group that a transformation is needed to move the whole world…
The Labour Party has announced that it intends to stop the development of any new oil and gas fields in UK territory if it forms the next government. The move will have far-reaching consequences, leading to a rapid contraction of the UK’s oil and gas industry over the next decade. So it’s no surprise that…
Pope Francis released a message on the 25th May in advance of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (September 1st). He said that COP28 …‘must listen to science and institute a rapid and equitable transition to end the era of fossil fuel…..According to the commitments undertaken in the Paris Agreement to…
In April Citizens’ Climate International published a press release on the Bretton Woods Action. CCI members from 31 countries, including a UK contingency, sent letters to and phoned their national World Bank Executive Directors requesting that the World Bank Group…. Supports the Bridgetown Initiative of the Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley (financial reform to…
As readers will know we at CCL UK are affiliates of a worldwide organisation, Citizens’ Climate International, which endorses building the political will for a liveable world through five levers of political will. This type of people power has had notable results, most famously in Canada. The current Bretton Woods project has also given the…
