Political upheavals across Asia show how climate breakdown deepens inequalities and breeds social unrest. Global heating is on track to breach the critical 1.5°C limit, and communities across Asia pay the highest price in lives, livelihoods, and ecosystems lost.
The research shows that fossil fuels produced by the world’s biggest oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil, BP, Saudi Aramco and Shell, have directly intensified and increased the frequency of heatwaves across the globe.
Climate campaigners have condemned BP’s decision to push ahead with reopening the North Sea’s Murlach oil field in direct defiance of Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s call to halt new fossil fuel projects.
Under pressure from the U.S., Asian nations were signing up for more LNG imports, even though recent studies show American gas—leaking methane at every stage—is sometimes worse than coal when it comes to warming the planet.
Fossil gas is not only worse for the climate than coal, it comes at a higher cost. This risks locking Europe into decades of fossil fuel dependence, volatile energy bills, and accelerating the wildfires and flooding already wreaking havoc across the continent.
Under the banner Draw the Line, communities will mobilize in towns and cities to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence, and for a just transition and a future built on renewable energy, fairness, and peace.
