Oilwatch Global Region
Oilwatch affiliate activities and news in the global north and south
LATEST UPDATES
The first climate justice summit: a pie in the face for the global north
The Guardian Today it is accepted, but 20-30 years ago campaigners were struggling to even get an acknowledgement that climate change was happening, let alone that it was manmade. It would have been hard to imagine that one day we might hold the developed nations...
Letter to the MEPS
Monday, 1st July 2013 To: Members of the European Parliament Brussels Dear Member of the European Parliament What MEPs should be debating instead of backloading As you prepare to vote again on the proposal to backload 900 million permits from the EU ETS, 42...
Dead whale tales and other horrors
Telegraphng Photos and news reports of dead whales washing up on the shores of Ghana in recent weeks raise very serious worries about the state of the marine environment there. If it were a question of one or two whales washing up, perhaps there would be no cause for...
“Unburnable” fuels, How to keep the oil in the soil
Brussels, May 21, 2013 Today, a global coalition of economists and activists release a 200p report on a variety of initiatives to leave "unburnable" fuels in the soil. The EU funded EJOLT network studied a range of campaigns and innovative proposals that aim to stem...
Yasunizing the World (2)
Triplecrisis.com Joan Martinez Alier, Guest Blogger In May 2013, the international press has become alive to the fact thatthere is a lot of unburnable fossil fuels. "Unburnable" carbon hasbecome a buzz word in The Economist and in The New York Times. If theoil, gas...
The Last Time Atmospheric CO2 was at 400 parts per million Humans Didn’t Exist
ScienceBlogs Posted by Peter Gleick on May 10, 2013 The planet has passed a disturbing landmark, a marker on a continuing highway to climate disruption. On May 9th, the NOAA and the Mauna Loa observatory reported that atmospheric CO2 levels touched 400 parts per...
California, Don’t let Shell Roast the Planet!
Oilwatch International Statement on Rejecting California REDDEarth Day, April 22, 2013 Californians are renowned for being environmental savvy so we at Oilwatch International were dismayed to learn that the State of California may let climate criminals like Shell and...
BP Goes on Trial for Deepwater Horizon Explosion
WHAT'S NEW ON CORPWATCH: Holding Corporations Accountablehttp://www.corpwatch.org BP Goes on Trial for Deepwater Horizon ExplosionPratap ChatterjeeMarch 2nd, 2013 BP, the UK oil company, went on trial this week for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in...
La historia de las falsas soluciones climáticas
La Historia del Mercado del Carbono http://storyofcapandtrade.org es una mirada rápida, bien fundamenta, ademas de entretenida, a la principal solución climática que está siendo discutida en Copenhage y en el Capitol Hill. La conductora Annie Leonard presenta a la...
Statement of Climate Justice Now! on the outcomes of COP15
for sign-on by 5 January 2010 Organisations and individuals are invited to endorse the statement visit www.climate-justice-now.org Call for system change not climate change unites global movement Corrupt Copenhagen accord exposes gulf between peoples demands and...
oilwatch in Other Regions
Get in touch with us
About us
Oilwatch is a network of resistance to the negative impacts of the oil and gas industry on peoples and their environments.
Contact
Oilwatch Secretariats
Health of Mother Earth Foundation
Accion Ecologica
informacion@accionecologica.org