Justice & Paix

Alors que les gouvernements se préparent à se réunir pour le Sommet du Futur de septembre prochain - une réunion de haut niveau des Nations Unies qui vise à "offrir un meilleur présent et à préserver l'avenir" - de récentes négociations ont supprimé deux mots du projet de résultat : les combustibles fossiles.

En tant qu'anciens chefs de gouvernement et lauréats du prix Nobel du monde entier, nous écrivons avec un sentiment commun d'urgence et de responsabilité concernant l'avenir de notre planète. Nous félicitons les Nations unies pour leur intention d'organiser un Sommet de l'avenir en septembre prochain - une réunion historique des Nations unies qui vise à garantir un avenir durable et équitable pour tous.

World’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report finds

At a time when we need to shift our collective climate action up a gear, the influence of the fossil fuels lobby is succeeding in slowing down ambition both at COP27 and in the EU.

New path to transition away from fossil fuels marred by lack of finance and loopholes COP28 in Dubai sends an important signal on the end of fossil fuels but leaves more questions than answers on how to ensure a fair and funded transition that is based on science and equity

Oil cartel warns ‘pressure may reach a tipping point’ and that ‘politically motivated campaigns put our prosperity’ at risk

Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

After yet another summer of increased extreme weather events caused by the burning of fossil fuels, some of the world’s richest oil and gas companies are investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up their extraction of new oil and gas. 

But the decline in oil, gas and coal will not be steep enough to limit global warming to 1.5C

Forecast downturn still ‘nowhere near steep enough’ to limit temperature rise to 1.5C, says watchdog

Bernie Sanders represents Vermont in the U.S. Senate.

More than a century of research shows that burning fossil fuels warms the climate – that’s exactly why granting new North Sea oil and gas licenses is a bad idea.

A new climate case was filed this week. Multnomah County, the Oregon county that includes Portland, filed suit against several oil majors for their role in exacerbating the climate change that led to the county's "heat dome" in June 2021, which killed 69 people. But the case doesn't just place

Major fossil fuel entities and trade associations including Koch Industries, the American Petroleum Institute, and the Western States Petroleum Association, as well as consulting behemoth McKinsey & Company, were slapped with the latest climate liability lawsuit today with the filing of a complaint in the Oregon Circuit Court in Multnomah County, Oregon.

Research allays fears that rapid scaling back of production would hit people’s savings and pensions hard

World Bank says subsidies costing as much as $23m a minute must be repurposed to fight climate crisis...

Hundreds of students and graduates vow not to work for ‘climate wreckers that insure those responsible for the climate crisis’

Pie-in-the-sky fantasies of carbon capture and geoengineering are a way for decision-makers to delay taking real action

Governments are ignoring calls to stop fossil fuel expansion—despite there being little time left to avoid the worst effects of global warming.

The sharp rise in fossil fuel subsidies is just one example of why activists say climate treaties are so often meaningless.