by HOMEf | Nov 7, 2022 | Fossil Politics, Report
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Conference of Parties (COP) have studiously avoided naming fossil fuels as the Primary source of greenhouse gases driving climate change. The United Nations estimates that fossil fuels account...
by HOMEf | Jun 30, 2022 | Fossil Politics, Report
This report looks at how fossil fuel actors are seeking to expand the voluntary carbon market to enable the continuation of the fossil fuel economy. The demand for carbon offsets is forecast to skyrocket in the coming years, for several reasons: COP26 in 2021 gave the...
by HOMEf | Dec 9, 2021 | Fossil Politics, Report
A special report on the wellhead blowout from Aiteo OML 29 Well 1 in Nembe, Bayelsa State. Hundreds of well blowouts have been reported during the history of the oil and gas drilling activities globally. These undesired events have led to loss of lives and utter...
by HOMEf | Nov 29, 2021 | Fossil Politics, Ikike, Report
Before the rise of fossil resources extraction in Africa, most countries operated agrarian economies as their primary source of exchange. Other economies depended on mining while some others had a mix of mining and agriculture. The economic impact of oil discovery...
by HOMEf | Oct 15, 2021 | Fossil Politics, Press Release, Report
Analysis details why a just energy transition in Africa requires an end to new oil, gas, and coal extraction projects Download the full report: priceofoil.org/the-skys-limit-africa Read the Executive Summary of the report in Swahili (Kiswahili), French (en...
by HOMEf | Aug 17, 2021 | Fossil Politics, Report
There is literally no African nation without one viable resource or the other and this has made Africa a centre of attraction for exploiters and speculators. Consequently, the quest for these natural resources has made Africa a highly exploited continent in the world...
