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Africa’s 2024 Bid Rounds Mean Fresh Opportunities for Upstream Investors

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As an unprecedented forest summit opens in Africa, a global movement of indigenous activists is pushing to halt all industrial and oil exploration in the world’s principal forests — an expansion largely funded by the U.S. and other Western countries. Campaigners in countries from Peru to Indonesia argue oil exploration is a threat to the…

An Area Six Times the Size of the UK Threatened and Tens of Millions of Indigenous and Local Community Members at Risk

A new report offers a stark reality check regarding the threat that oil and gas expansion plans pose to the world’s two largest tropical rainforests and the Indigenous and local communities within them.

Policymakers are undercounting forests' cooling effect. Research reveals that forests interact with the atmosphere in many ways other than through the global carbon cycle, affecting rainfall and temperature from global to local scales.

If fossil fuel emissions do not dramatically decrease and soon, a new study suggests the various ecosystems of life on our planet will be rapidly transformed, especially in the tropics and polar regions.