News and analysis on carbon and fossil fuel divestment
October 2024
The age of extinction
How the ‘Frida Kahlo of environmental geopolitics’ is lighting a fire under big oil
Colombian environment minister Susana Muhamad once worked for Shell. Now, as the country gears up to host the biodiversity Cop16, she is calling for a just transition away from fossil fuels
September 2024
More than £494bn subsidies a year in developing world harmful to climate, says report
ActionAid says ‘parasitic behaviour’ is fuelling the climate crisis and represents ‘corporate capture’ of public finance
G20 countries turning backs on fossil fuel pledge, say campaigners
Promise to ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ made at Cop28 climate talks has been left out of draft resolutions
UK’s methane hotspots include landfills and last coalmine
Greenpeace urges Labour to ‘fulfil international obligations’ as critics question accuracy of official data
August 2024
Texas comptroller adds NatWest to list of companies ‘boycotting’ fossil fuel firms
The bank is latest to be named by officials in the US state, which has law to protect oil and gas sector
Mark Rylance among actors calling on Old Vic to cut links with fossil fuel investor
Paapa Essiedu and Stephen Dillane also sign open letter urging theatre to end Royal Bank of Canada’s support over its shares in fuel and arms
Labour donor calls for review as Southport rioter is jailed for less time than Just Stop Oil protester
‘Two-tier policing’ claims are nonsense, but government is guilty of ‘two-tier sentencing’, says green energy boss Dale Vince
July 2024
The other petrostates
‘Inexcusable’: should climate hypocrites get the petrostates label?
Suggestions definition of petrostate is too narrow as many rich countries that could phase out fossil fuels double down
Cop29 host Azerbaijan seeks $1bn from fossil fuel producers for climate fund
Countries and companies involved in oil and gas extraction to be asked to join scheme aimed at tackling global heating
North Sea oil decline: ‘We can’t have a repeat of what happened to 80s miners’
Unlikely alliance of unions and climate groups call for ‘clear and funded’ transition plan for communities reliant on dwindling industry
June 2024
Baillie Gifford boycotts achieve nothing
Our Baillie Gifford boycotts aren’t about tearing down the arts – they’re about building them up
Tom Jeffreys
Big oil uncovered
Stanford disappoints critics of fossil fuel donations by hiring PR firm with big oil ties
‘I wouldn’t call it a victory’: Fossil Free Books organisers on Baillie Gifford’s exit from literary festival funding
The Observer view on Baillie Gifford sponsorship row: writing is on the wall for book lovers
Baillie Gifford cancels all remaining sponsorships of literary festivals
Fossil fuel firms are 'godfathers of climate chaos', says UN chief – video
Baillie Gifford will no longer sponsor Borders and Cheltenham literature festivals
Nils Pratley on finance
Book festival activists are making absurd demands over Baillie Gifford
Nils Pratley
Growing sponsorship row leaves UK summer arts festivals in turmoil
