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UK ‘helping Russia pay for its war on Ukraine’ via loophole on refined oil imports

£2.2bn-worth of oil processed in China, India and Turkey – to whom Russia supplies crude – was imported in 2023, data shows

The Guardian - UK

Peru Court Sentences Killers Of Indigenous Land Defenders

A Peruvian court on Thursday imposed near three-decade sentences on five men who were being retried for the murders of four Indigenous Amazon land defenders who had crossed swords with illegal loggers.

International Business Times

On the trail of a killer: eight years after Berta Cáceres’ murder is there new hope for justice?

The Honduran Indigenous and environmental leader was shot in 2016 for her opposition to an internationally financed dam, but despite violence and threats, the net is closing on the murder’s alleged mastermind

The Guardian - UK

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Emissions connected to top oil and gas firms may cause millions of heat deaths by 2100, study finds

Global witness analysis suggests 11.5 million deaths could be caused by burning of fuel produced by 2050

The Guardian - UK

BP claws back £1.8m from sacked boss Looney and hands new CEO £8m pay deal

Salary package for Murray Auchincloss branded ‘sickening’ by anti-fossil fuel campaigners

The Guardian - UK

UK criticised over apparent call to firms to rebuild disputed areas of Azerbaijan

Officials held online meeting with business leaders despite flight of ethnic Armenians after military takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh

The Guardian - UK

World’s largest oil companies have made $281bn profit since invasion of Ukraine

Global Witness says the five ‘super-majors’ are the ‘main winners of the war’ while many struggle to heat their homes

The Guardian - UK

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Gas Booming For UN COP29 Host Azerbaijan

Following the UN's COP28 climate talks in oil-fuelled Dubai, the COP29 conference is headed for the historic cradle of oil, Azerbaijan, which is in the midst of a gas boom.

International Business Times

Analysis reveals 80% of North Sea oil is exported

Exclusive: Rise in share of UK oil and gas that is exported challenges PM’s claim that fossil fuel extraction brings energy security

The Guardian - UK

Cop29 host Azerbaijan to hike gas output by a third over next decade

Environmentalists condemn news of higher forecast production which is also seen as a conservative forecast

The Guardian - UK

Saudi registrants for COP28 included undeclared oil company employees, nonprofit says

At least 15 people who registered for Saudi Arabia’s delegation to the COP28 climate conference in Dubai appear to be undeclared employees of the Saudi state oil company, according to research by an environmental nonprofit

The Independent UK

Five key issues at stake in the DR Congo’s crucial election

Here’s what’s at stake as millions go to vote this December in Africa’s second-largest country by size.

Al Jazeera

Meta, X, TikTok, YouTube allow abuse of female journalists, says group

Global Witness identified major hate-speech failings in experiments in South Africa.

Fortune

Colombia is the most dangerous country in the world for environmental defenders

Of the 177 environmental activists killed around the world last year, 60 were murdered in Colombia, says the advocacy group Global Witness. In most cases, no one is tried or convicted.

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The Guardian - UK

Capturing Cop28 chief’s oil firm emissions would take centuries – study

Analysis deems technology promoted by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber ‘dangerous red herring’

The Guardian - UK

BP projects have helped fund Azerbaijan military aggression, say campaigners

Exclusive: Global Witness claims UK firm has indirectly helped fund aggression against ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh

Evening Standard

UK imports ‘linked to deforestation twice the size of Paris in under two years’

Researchers analysed the UK’s direct import of seven ‘forest risk’ commodities, including palm oil, soy and cattle products.

The Guardian - UK

Beef, soy and palm oil products linked to deforestation still imported into UK

Campaigners accuse government of failing to stick to promises made at Cop26 climate summit in 2021

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The National (Scotland)

Only 10 per cent of people think more fossil fuels will cut energy bills, poll finds

JUST 10 per cent of people in the UK think more oil and gas production will reduce bills and increase energy security, according to a new poll.

Salon

Land defenders killed every two days

A new report finds that Indigenous peoples made up more than a third of those deaths

Radio France Internationale

NGO finds 177 environmental activists murdered worldwide in 2022

In its annual review, the Global Witness NGO named 177 land and environmental defenders who had been killed in 2022 – from the Amazon to the Philippines and Democratic Republic of Congo.

Al Jazeera

Disappearances ‘speak to dangers’ of environmental activism in Philippines

Some 15 activists and community organisers have gone missing since Ferdinand Marcos Jr took power in the Philippines.

The Guardian - UK

Environmental activists killed at a rate of one every other day in 2022 – report

Colombia was the deadliest country and a fifth of the 177 recorded killings took place in the Amazon rainforest, says Global Witness

The Guardian - UK

EU imports of Russian liquified gas leap by 40% since Ukraine invasion

Pipeline flows from Russia have fallen to historic lows, but shipments of LNG from all over the world have surged

The Independent UK

Model’s Only Fans billboards cleared after complaints children could see them

The ASA received 30 complaints that Eliza Rose Watson’s posters featured sexual adult content and were inappropriate to be seen by children.

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