📣Tomorrow's UK budget is PM Andy Burnham's chance to show he's serious about climate action & a just transition. Instead of cutting heat pump funding to increase defence spending, his government should end their carbon capture fairytale and back proven solutions! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

UK spending on ‘fairytale’ carbon capture tech is a national embarrassment, chancellor told

Chris Packham says £24bn earmarked for projects with ‘ludicrously uncertain results’ should be redirected to help lower bills and cut emissions

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40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...

It is hilarious that Todd McClay fairly obviously confused Fernando Hernandez Espino of Both Ends with Francisco Hernandez of the Greens but neither he nor Luxon will admit it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Christopher Luxon walks back 'bizarre claim' about the Greens

Christopher Luxon has walked back claims made by one of his ministers about the Greens, before then suggesting - wrongly - that they originated from the media.

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It's no shock that a European civil society organisation has filed a complaint about the New Zealand government's breach of the #climate provisions in its free trade deal with the EU, nor that legal academics, NGOs, and Māori activists backed it. newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/30/f...

Formal complaint that NZ climate backsliding breaches Europe trade deal

The Government's top law officer warned that if ministers blocked Mike Smith's Fonterra lawsuit, the next case would target the Crown directly. She's been proven right, reports Jonathan Milne.

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NEW REPORT: TotalEnergies’ LNG into Europe risks European security, affordability, and climate goals.

TotalEnergies is Europe’s biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer (3x more than it's next rival!) But 71% of TotalEnergies' LNG into Europe in 2025 came from the US and Russia – while Putin and Trump attack and threaten Europe.

The science is clear: Overshooting 1.5 is Armageddon for the Pacific. 🚨📣 As Pacific leaders gather in Palau, a new UNEP report highlights the existential threat facing island nations. With sea-level rise threatening fisheries and GDP, the need for a just transition grows even more urgent.

A new @unep.org report warns of massive risk from exceeding 1.5°C global warming. Yet it fails to put a fast, fair, funded fossil fuel phase-out at the center of how governments fulfill their legal obligations. Here’s why that’s a problem. 🧵

1/ The US–Israel war on Iran has once again put #EnergySecurity at the centre of geopolitical tensions. It is the third major shock to the global energy system this decade, exposing the vulnerabilities of fossil fuel-dependent economies. But this crisis is different.

Let's be blunt for a moment here: Taxing people's electricity use to subsidise an uneconomic LNG terminal is like taxing fruit and vegetables to subsidise a cigarette factory. rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

LNG imports not needed for dry year cover, Meridian says

A proposal to import LNG is being looked at by the government as a way to generate power when hydro levels are low and renewables cannot meet demand.

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In Paris, many gathered outside the meeting to highlight the harmful impacts of TotalEnergies’ East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), Mozambique Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Export Terminal, and more – paid for by billions of euros of French people's savings.

As Big Oil company TotalEnergies held its annual meeting in Paris, people rallied in a Week of Action across Africa, Europe, and Latin America with nearly 70 actions in 20 countries to push back on polluting companies, demanding they cease operations and fix past harms.

Unless leaders change course, fossil fuel investment will rise and clean energy investment stagnate. Fossil fuel executives make billions from war + suffering, while it's energy insecurity + higher bills for us. Renewable energy is faster to build, cheaper + more secure oilchange.org/news/in-resp...

In response to the International Energy Agency’s annual World Energy Investment Report  - Oil Change International

The International Energy Agency’s annual World Energy Investment (WEI) Report is the world’s most authoritative assessment of where energy finance is flowing

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Big oil and gas companies are war profiteers. As people die, they make bank. Read full >> oilchange.org/blogs/big-oi...

Big Oil’s War Profiteering Must End - Oil Change International

As people lose their lives in Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war on Iran, Big Oil is cashing in.

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Make it make sense: New Zealand’s government plans to tax regular New Zealanders’ electricity bills to pay for an uneconomic gas import terminal AND plans to subsidise loans for big businesses to transition away from gas.

🚨🚨BREAKING: Texas community leaders are in Tokyo to file a first-of-a-kind series of coordinated complaints against the Japanese financial institutions that backed Freeport LNG, a dangerous, polluting liquified natural gas (LNG) project near their homes 🚨🚨

🚨Our new report with @foescot.bsky.social and Transition Economics shows what Reform UK's climate policy rollback would actually cost: nearly 500,000 jobs destroyed within 3 years. That's comparable to almost every teacher in the UK losing their job. Read more here: bit.ly/49LLiWW

A striking difference between the 2021-22 and the current fossil fuel crunches is the IEA's response. This time, not a mention of the actual solutions to cut dependence on fossil fuels - clean energy and electrification. This expert letter calls them out for it.

1/ Here’s a snapshot of tankers currently heading to the U.S. to load up on crude. It took weeks to offload oil already in transit when U.S./Israel attacked Iran. THIS buffered the initial shock. Now that the cushion is gone, the disruption is intensifying. 🧵👇

Nothing says "I'm a confident and secure Prime Minister" like reading a pre-written statement, which includes snarky attacks on the media, then walking out of your press conference without taking questions.

@recommon.org won't back down and we will stand in solidarity with them!

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🔴 ReCommon condemns ENI’s decision to file yet another frivolous lawsuit against the association in an attempt to silence its representatives. 👇 www.recommon.org/en/new-slapp...

Trump's Iran debacle may not be your classic oil grab. But if the US wasn't awash in oil and gas, would it be happening?

Oil Change International@oilchange.org · 7mo ago

1/ Nothing says “America First” better than decimating the global economy while boasting about turning a profit. 🧵👇 Read more from @lornestockman.bsky.social: oilchange.org/blogs/trumps...

1/7 BREAKING: A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay them US$ 345 million. This is a billionaire-backed attack on the right to protest. A thread ⤵️🧵

The same companies fueling climate chaos are flooding us with plastic. Follow the oil.

Ministerial @iea.org meeting, a great opportunity to discuss how to build energy security and availability of key rare esrths and raw materials while affording climate change risks, even if “Global divisions over energy policy widening”, (IEA chief says). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Global divisions over energy policy widening, IEA chief says

Fatih Birol warns that climate change is ‘moving down the international policy agenda’

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For 25 years, Big Oil has sold false climate promises while continuing to fuel climate chaos.

A new report from @climateintegrity.org examined 300+ ads from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, & Shell and identified & different categories of deception.

Big Oil’s Deceptive Climate Ads | Center for Climate Integrity

How Four Oil Majors Sold False Promises from 2000-2025

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Sportwashing is a problem. TotalEnergies fuels suffering and atrocities across Africa. That is precisely why the company does so much in this continent to hide its image behind footballs, billboards, and cheering crowds. backchannel1.substack.com/p/why-total-...

Why Total Energies should be kicked out of AFCON

The Africa Cup of Nations reminds me why football matters in Africa - and also why major polluters have no place at our showcase event

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If you think Trump's comments about capturing oil in V aren't sincere because the country has bad, old and inefficient fossil infrastructure, I regret to inform you that all fossil fuel infrastructure is bad, old and inefficient and none of these people actually care about the process or product

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

🌡️ Pressure is mounting: After the UK and Dutch export credit agencies (UKEF & Atradius DSB) exited over human rights concerns, financial institutions must now withdraw their support for TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project in Cabo Delgado. 📄 Read the letter ⬇️

Financial institutions urged to follow UKEF and Atradius DSB in withdrawing from Mozambique LNG - Reclaim Finance

Financial institutions are being urged to immediately withdraw their financial support from TotalEnergies' Mozambique LNG project in Cabo Delgado

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