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Giant new Nigerian refinery raises tensions between energy development and climate action.

The upcoming UN Climate Change Conference is sure to be dominated by the ongoing debate over when peak oil demand will occur and how governments should react.

The Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) and its partners have called on African governments to demand climate justice from “Big Polluters” like Exxon, Shell and others by providing adequate loss and damage finance. “For decades, Big Polluters like Exxon, Shell, and others have spent billions of dollars denying the climate…

The Vision for Alternative Development, Ghana (VALD Ghana), and its partners have tasked African governments to hold Big Polluters accountable for fueling the climate crisis and causing damage to the African continent. According to VALD Ghana, and its partners, the harm and damages caused by these big polluters are far…

Climate justice civil society groups in Africa have issued a position paper urging governments of Africa attending the COP in Glasgow to advance climate

Nnimmo Bassey Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nnimmo Bassey, has cautioned African governments anticipating that Africa will develop through crude oil exploration and investments in dirty energy to brace up to the fact that the continent will soon become a dumping ground for obsolete technology, as the world moves away from fossil fuels. Bassey said beyond the health hazards associated with extraction, the African continent had become replete with exploitative markets, mili...