Africa: European Demand Driving $1 Trillion Spending On Gas Production Worldwide This Decade #AfricaClimateCrisis

$223 billion of this to be spent on new gas production to supply Europe Read more »

Africa: Bad Case of Déjà Vu As Former Oil Executive to Lead COP29 Climate Negotiations in Azerbaijan

This week, it was announced that Azeri Ecology Minister Mukhtar Babayev, who spent over 20 years at Azerbaijan's state-owned oil and gas company SOCAR, has been appointed as… Read more »

Africa: Record Number of Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Granted Access to COP28 Climate Talks #AfricaClimateCrisis

London, 4th December 2023 - At least 2456 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the COP28 summit in Dubai, signalling an unprecedented presence at crucial climate talks… Read more »

Africa: EU Commission Unveils Subsidy Plans for Hydrogen Infrastructure, Opening Up Europe to Fossil Gas Lock-in

Brussels, November 28 - The European Commission today opened the door to subsidies for a pipeline to transport blue hydrogen from Norway to Germany, which lead to more fossil gas… Read more »

Africa: Equinor, Shell and RWE's Plans to Flood Europe With Fossil Hydrogen May Receive EU Taxpayer Support #AfricaClimateCrisis

A pipeline to export fossil hydrogen from Norway to Germany is in the running for EU subsidies, and would rely on new hydrogen plants which would burn more fossil gas than Denmark,… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Puncturing the Second Lung of the World

Global Witness has uncovered evidence that shows China-linked timber company Congo King Baisheng Forestry Development (CKBFD) is responsible for illegal logging in the Democratic… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Chinese-Owned Timber Giant Exported More Than U.S.$5 Million of Illegal Timber in Just Six Months

Wednesday 25th October, London 2023 - Chinese-owned timber company Congo King Baisheng Forestry Development (CKBFD) exported more than $5 million dollars' worth of illegal timber… Read more »

Africa: The Climate Law the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want #AfricaClimateHope

Europe's biggest polluters - Shell, BP, TotalEnergies and ENI - are fighting to stop a law that would force them to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Our governments cannot… Read more »

Africa: COP28 Oil Company Adnoc Emissions Heading in Exact Opposite Way for Climate Goal

The oil company ran by COP28 chief Sultan al-Jaber is on course to increase the emissions from its oil and gas operations by more than 40 percent by 2030 compared to 2023 - almost… Read more »

Africa: COP28 Oil Company to Spend $1 Bn a Month On Fossil Fuels This Decade Despite 'Green' Claims

The oil and gas firm ran by the president of COP28 climate talks is set to spend more than $1 billion every month this decade on fossil fuels, despite its claims to be a leading… Read more »

Africa: COP28 President's 'Hypocritical' Oil Firm Failing to Acknowledge Full Extent of Their Carbon Footprint

The fossil fuel giant run by the president of the forthcoming UN climate summit - Sultan Al-Jaber - this week reported only a fraction of its carbon pollution, despite him saying… Read more »

Africa: UK Government's Announcement On New Oil & Gas Licences Is 'Morally Depraved' #AfricaClimateCrisis

Statement on UK Government's announcement to award new North Sea oil and gas licences Read more »

Africa: TotalEnergies Announces €4.5 Billion Quarterly Profits While Remaining a Top Buyer of Russian Liquified Gas #AfricaClimateCrisis

27 July 2023, London - French energy giant TotalEnergies today announced €10.4 billion ($11.5 billion) in profits so far in 2023, and the company continues its trade buying… Read more »

Africa: As Shell Reports £3.9 Billion in Q2 Profits Amidst Deadly Heatwave, Its Oil and Gas Investment Is Forecast to Increase By 10% #AfricaClimateCrisis

London, July 27th 2023 - As Shell reports profits of £11.6 billion ($14.8 billion) for the first half of this year, new analysis shows that the company is set to increase its… Read more »

Africa: UK Government Quashes New Law That Would Shut Off Money Pipeline to Deforesting Businesses #AfricaClimateCrisis

27th June 2023, London - The UK government has rejected a key amendment to the Financial Services and Markets Bill that would force financial institutions to carry out mandatory… Read more »

Africa: Guinea's Bribery Saga Reaches New Peaks

Lurid bribery revelations led the government of Guinea to confiscate world-beating iron ore reserves from junior mining company BSG Resources in 2014. So when bitter rival Rio… Read more »

Guinea: Govt Moves to Strip Billionaire of Iron Ore Concession

A government committee in Guinea today recommended stripping diamond billionaire Beny Steinmetz of one of the world's biggest iron ore concessions on evidence his company bribed… Read more »

Guinea: Global Witness to Resist Attempt to Stifle Public-Interest Reporting

Officials of the companies Beny Steinmetz Group Resources and Onyx Financial Advisers have filed a claim in the UK High Court against Global Witness under the Data Protection Act.… Read more »

Guinea: New Evidence Ties BSGR to Company Behind Guinea Mine Bribery

A director of Beny Steinmetz Group Resources set up a company that signed corrupt deals with the wife of an African president in a multi-billion-dollar mine scandal, Global Witness… Read more »

Guinea: Proof Company Was Lying in Mining Scandal?

Beny Steinmetz Group Resources says there was no corrupt behaviour in its acquisition of licences to one of the world's largest iron ore concessions, in the West African nation of… Read more »

Guinea: Corruption Arrest in U.S. Puts Beny Steinmetz Group Resources in the Frame

The US authorities have arrested a man in Florida in connection with the controversial acquisition of mining rights in Guinea by Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR), according to… Read more »

Guinea: Beny Steinmetz Group Resources Must Publicly Address Questions Over Mining Concession

The Financial Times has published serious corruption allegations relating to the confiscation of half of one of the world's biggest iron ore concessions and its granting to a… Read more »