NEW REPORT: We looked under the hood of G20 countries' international public finance for energy ahead of their Very Big Deadline to #StopFundingFossils.
🧵Here's more on the $55 billion / yr in fossil fuel money we found & how we can stop it 🧵 priceofoil.org/g20-at-a-cross…
GOOD NEWS: Public 💵 for fossils just dropped for the first time, and ~1/3 of this is from action from UK, @EIB, & others.
BAD NEWS: The rest of the drop is (a) just noise, (b) already overturned in early 2022 data, or (c) from worse data availability! priceofoil.org/g20-at-a-cross…
🇨🇦 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 🇨🇳 are the largest providers of public finance for fossil fuels, providing more than half of all #G20 public finance for fossil fuels (more than $30 billion a year!) priceofoil.org/g20-at-a-cross…
It's a myth that fossil fuel $ is good for development.
1) Little of it flows to the lowest income countries 2) It rarely supports energy access. In the top low-income recipient, Mozambique, 99.7% flowed to projects for export + extraction, not local use. #MozLNG
Fossil gas still receives more 💰 than any other energy source 🚩, despite @IEA and @IPCC_CH findings that clean energy investment is the way to an energy secure future. priceofoil.org/g20-at-a-cross…
Public banks have huge leverage and could be the institutions building a globally just #GreenNewDeal. But they can’t play this role until this chart gets A LOT greener. See how different countries and MDBs stack up here: energyfinance.org/#/tracker
Our new factsheet covers the 🕸 spookiest 🕸 of topics: how the US gov’t uses tax dollars to prop up the fossil fuel industry’s devilish schemes known as carbon capture and storage (CCS) and fossil hydrogen. oilchange.org/publications/f…
Despite the abundant evidence of these technologies’ failures, the US subsidizes them with more public money than any other country. It has committed over $12 billion to them over the past 40 years. It’s ghoulish – and just the beginning. 👹
The US has foregone more than $1.3 billion in tax revenue to offer credits to corporations to capture carbon, *even if it's used to produce more oil.* Laws passed since 2020 could result in 👹 $120B+ 👹going to CCS and fossil hydrogen over the next 10 years.
1/8 The Republican Governors Public Policy Committee blamed @POTUS' energy policies for rising gas prices. They urged him to roll back air pollution standards, increase oil + gas leasing, and lift the pause on new LNG export terminal. Read their letter: rga.org/joint-letter-t…
2/8 But the real challenge for the LNG industry isn't the U.S. government, but Europe. The EU recently finalized a measure limiting long-term gas contracts unless emissions are abated. ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: Introducing the "Japan Greenwash Summit" 🟢💼—a spoof website that exposes the truth behind the @JPNEnergySummit! 🚫 #JapanGreenwashSummit #Greenwashing japangreenwashsummit.com
1/8 🌍 Starting today, Tokyo hosts the #JapanEnergySummit, organized by #JERA & `TokyoGas. Big names like @Exxon, & @BP along with 🇯🇵@METI_JPN will discuss "clean energy" while ramping up investments in LNG & gas sectors. Hypocrisy much? 🤔💸 Read more: priceofoil.org/2024/06/03/jap…
2/8 🌐 To counter this, NGOs have launched the Japan Greenwash Summit website. It parodies the actual JES site, revealing how Japan is funding dirty energy projects worldwide while claiming to be climate champions. 🛢️❌ #ClimateCrisis
The ongoing invasion of Rafah is a devastating new climax in the genocide against Palestinians. We continue to be in solidarity w/ millions in Palestine, & in the streets & campuses, led by Palestinians & Jews, calling for a #CEASEFIRE
Our statement 👇🧵 priceofoil.org/2024/05/09/oil…
As Israel’s genocidal campaign intensifies, so does global opposition to it: students around the world are speaking out despite facing violent backlash and repression. Over 2,100 students have been arrested in the United States alone. 2/ theguardian.com/us-news/articl…
Decades of overlapping divestment movements make clear how climate justice is connected to other justice movements. Oil fuels war and accelerates the climate crisis. Divestment is a path towards justice.@dharnanoor @guardian 3/ theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…
🚨 NEW: Our latest analysis tracks the trail of death and destruction along the supply chains that bring fossil fuels to Israel. Read about who is supplying the oil fueling the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.⬇️ #CeasefireNOW #OilFuelsWar 🇵🇸 priceofoil.org/israel-fuel-pr…
Israel’s war machine is heavily reliant on imports from the US, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Gabon, plus Brazil, Saudi, the UAE & Egypt. Oil majors like @bp_plc @Chevron @exxonmobil @Shell are complicit as well. #StopTheGenocideInPalestine
30,000+ have been brutally killed in the war on Palestine. With massive protests across the globe and the ruling by the @CIJ_ICJ that some of Israel's actions may have violated the terms of the Genocide Convention, countries & companies sending fossil fuels to 🇮🇱 must stop now.
❌ Has approved the most expansion of oil and gas in the region.
❌ Threatens to be the world’s 12th largest developer of new oil and gas fields.
❌ Is fully unaligned in most categories.