Oil

I warned leaders at COP28 that the age of oil is over - with or without ‘phase out’ plan

After decades exposing fossil fuel interests, I've realised it's not about dismantling the old. We must enable the new with finance, technology & system change. The West’s biggest carbon polluters are deflecting from this necessity, in ways that have carefully obscured what really derailed COP28.

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BBC claims about COP28 secret oil deals are flawed

I've been investigating fossil fuel interests for two decades. But the BBC's recent reporting on COP28 fails key investigative tests, and ultimately doesn't prove its claim that COP talks were used to greenwash a plan to strike deals to boost global fossil fuel production.

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The Beginning of the End of Oil is Here... Now What?

The world's energy watchdog has called it - end of the oil age is imminent. But the world is deeply unprepared for what this means - and we're still underestimating the speed, scale and consequences of what's coming. This is the greatest disruption in human history. Here's how we get ready.

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America’s Fossil Fuel Economy is Heading for Collapse – It Signals the End of the Oil Age

US oil production is about to peak, but the world is unprepared for the tremendous economic and political consequences. The only path through is energy and economic transformation.

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What’s really driving the global economic crisis is net energy decline

And there’s no going back. So let’s step into the future.

  • Jonathan Rutherford
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Jonathan Rutherford

3 ways Clean Energy will make Big Oil extinct in 12 to 32 Years — without subsidies

As the old world dies, a new world is being born

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
12 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

How global economic growth will drown in Trump’s oil glut after 2018

All the oil on the planet can’t save a financial system in overshoot, but another world is still possible

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
19 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

Brace for the oil, food and financial crash of 2018

80% of the world’s oil has peaked, and the resulting oil crunch will flatten the economy

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
13 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

US shale boom has already ‘peaked’ says former govt geoscientist

Fracking revolution now in decline

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
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Nafeez M Ahmed

Parliamentary group warns that global fossil fuels could peak in less than 10 years

British MPs launch landmark report on impending environmental ‘limits’ to economic growth

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
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Nafeez M Ahmed
Oil

Secret files: British government courting Arab tyrants, fossil fuel interests

Official documents show how oil and business interests trump democracy

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
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Nafeez M Ahmed

Britain’s secret ties to governments, firms behind ISIS oil sales

In the scramble to access Kurdistan’s oil and gas wealth, the US and UK are turning a blind eye to complicity in ‘Islamic State’ oil smuggling

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
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Nafeez M Ahmed

Beyond Extinction

Transition to post-capitalism is inevitable

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
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Nafeez M Ahmed