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BP Scraps Target of Reducing Oil Production by 2030
Oil major BP has scrapped its goal of reducing oil and gas production by the end of the decade, angering environmental groups.Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (EcoWatch)
#WestPapua: #NeoColonialism is going on and on, it seems. Now the Permanent People’s Tribunal on West Papua, held in London on 27-29 June, once more brought the #oppression of the West Papua people, the #destruction of #biosphere|s on the table, calling on the UN to help end the crimes, committed by international #corporations with support from the #Indonesian state (or is it the other way round?):
https://braveneweurope.com/ben-wray-western-corporations-and-states-are-complicit-in-west-papuas-human-and-environmental-catastrophe
#BP #Unilever #PalmOil #LandGrabbing #extractivism
Ben Wray - Western corporations and states are complicit in West Papua's "human and environmental catastrophe" - Brave New Europe
A report from the Permanent People’s Tribunal on West Papua, held in London on 27-29 June, which heard direct from West Papuans about the disastrous effects of Indonesian rule on their lives and land. Ben [...]Ben Wray (Brave New Europe)
#Humanrights #Fossilfuels #corruption
Tree planting offset project in Sierra Leone: USD 2.5 million from BP but no community consent | World Rainforest Movement
A report documents how a tree planting carbon project in Port Loko, Sierra Leone is violating the country’s community rights laws and risks locking families into 50-year contracts. The British oil company BP has already paid USD 2.www.wrm.org.uy
1/ #Billionaire #Ecoterrorism
Kill off, sicken, or weaken, your own citizens & neighbors so long as you can make billions?
The ruling families say, "Fuck, yes!"
Toxic gas putting millions at risk in #MiddleEast
[& in the US, but shhh.🤫 ]
""Very disturbing. Big oil companies (#BP, #Shell, et. al) & states in the Middle East are violating the human rights of millions of people by failing to tackle air pollution from fossil fuels.
"Despite the massive human suffering, Big Oil & #petrostates carry on with business as usual with total impunity & zero accountability."
#climate #pollution #AirPollution #health
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67522413
Toxic gas putting millions at risk in Middle East, BBC finds
The UAE, hosts of the COP28 climate summit, is breaking its own ban on gas flaring, the BBC finds.By Owen Pinnell and Sarah Ibrahim (BBC News)