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Press Release: Councils suffer £2bn hit to pension funds due to oil investments
New analysis reveals that £1.75 billion was wiped off UK council pension funds due to their oil investments crashing over the past three years. Platform London commissioned Transition Economics to conduct the analysis [1], which showed that * The combined investments by 56 local government pension funds into nine leading oil companies, including BP and…
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PRESS RELEASE: Bank of England could buy BP bonds worth almost 900Mn as campaigners commemorate 10 years since the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster that devastated lives and environment
People from across the world commemorate the 10 years anniversary of BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill that took eleven lives and ruined thousands more with creative online action. 10 years on, communities are still fighting the deadly impact of big oil companies in the Gulf. Last week, the Bank of England published a list…
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Report: UK oil and gas drilling plans incompatible with responding to climate emergency
Wednesday 15 May 2019 Contact: Anna Markova // Platform // anna@platformlondon.org // 07942044472 Greg Muttitt // Oil Change International // greg@priceofoil.org // 07508 421 527 Connal Hughes // Friends of the Earth Scotland // chughes@foe.scot // 0131 243 2715 Download report The UK’s oil and gas drilling plans are incompatible with responding to the climate…
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EU urged to honour Paris Agreement, withdraw support for gas mega-pipeline
Brussels, Belgium — In an open letter released today, climate scientists, indigenous leaders, environmental and social justice groups, actors and artists call on the European Union to immediately withdraw its support for a gas mega-pipeline that would ‘destroy Europe’s climate targets’. While European leaders criticised the United States for pulling out of the Paris Agreement,…
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UK human rights campaigner detained & red-listed in Baku Airport in run-up to European Games
Emma has been deported. Up to date press release: https://platformlondon.org/p-pressreleases/emma-hughes-deported-azerbaijan-bp/ Emma Hughes of Platform, a member of the Sport for Rights coalition, has been detained in Baku airport on her way into Azerbaijan, by the BP-Aliyev regime. She has been told she is on a “red list”, had her passport taken from her and will…
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EBRD plan Azerbaijan loan as regime’s fiercest critic is imprisoned
One of the most famous critics of the Aliyev regime has been imprisoned in Baku. Khadija Ismayilova, an award winning investigative journalist was arrested for ‘inciting suicide’. If found guilty she faces up to seven years in prison. Ismayilova has spent years uncovering corruption in Azerbaijan, which she has traced all the way up to…
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Azerbaijan political prisoners list published with report’s authors on it
Press release by Bankwatch, Counter Balance and Platform For immediate release: August 19 Azerbaijan political prisoners list published with report’s authors on it London — Human rights activists in Azerbaijan published yesterday a list of 98 people (1) who are currently political prisoners in the country run by the authoritarian regime of Ilham Aliyev. Ironically,…
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Nigerian Government and Shell continue to ignore horrendous pollution in Niger Delta
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL; CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ACTION; FRIENDS OF THE EARTH EUROPE; PLATFORM Abuja/Amsterdam/Brussels/London, August 4, 2014 – The systemic failure of the Nigerian government and oil giant Shell to clean up the horrendous oil pollution in the Niger Delta has been branded “shameful” by a group of Nigerian and…
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Shell CEO given Nigeria ‘to do list’ at memorial outside shareholder meeting on 20th anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s arrest
Activists from oil-industry watch dog Platform this morning delivered an out-sized ‘to do list’ to Shell’s new CEO Ben van Beurden at its shareholder meeting in London, while young people read out Ken Saro-Wiwa’s final poems. The four-foot-high ‘to do list’ sets out what Shell needs to do to address its legacy of five decades…
