Barclays helps arrange $750 million bond to North Sea oil company during UK wildfires
Barclays helped arrange a $750m bond deal for Harbour Energy, one of the UK's biggest oil and gas producers, as wildfires raged across Britain
Banks make $26 billion in a decade of financing deforesting companies
Our analysis reveals how efforts to end deforestation are undermined by climate-wrecking profits, as banks in the US, EU and UK make over $10 billion in income since the Paris climate agreement by financing companies involved in deforestation
Extreme heat
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"It was the heat that killed my husband": Big Oil profits, we pay the price
While we delay action on fossil fuels, Texans are losing their lives in an unlivable heatwave
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COP oil companies’ emissions are set to cause 17 million heat deaths
Oil firms present at COP summits made $2.6 trillion profits since the Paris Agreement – enough to pay half the cost of climate damage in poor countries
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The supermajors’ plans could kill 11.5 million people
The emissions from burning oil and gas produced by Shell, BP, TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil and Chevron until 2050 could cause an estimated 11.5 million additional premature deaths due to heat before the end of the century
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Make polluters pay
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Big Oil reaps half a billion dollars a day as "scandalous" war windfall continues
World’s five leading oil "supermajor" companies rake in $48 billion in Q2 2026 – the most since height of Ukraine crisis
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Taxing fossil fuel companies for a fairer, greener Europe
Damage from climate-driven storms, floods and heatwaves is costing communities billions worldwide. We need an EU tax on fossil fuel profits to help plug the gaps in climate finance
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Fossil fuels cost too much not to rapidly phase them out
As the energy crisis escalates, some argue for more drilling at home. But the real answer lies not in doubling down on a broken system, but in a rapid and just transition to renewables
Land and Environmental Defenders report archive
Since 2012, we’ve been reporting annually on killings and disappearances of land and environmental defenders around the world
New threats on the frontline
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Roots of resistance
Land and environmental defenders face extreme violence, criminalisation and lack of protection around the world, with 146 killed or disappeared in 2024
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In numbers: Attacks against defenders since 2012
Explore our full dataset to find out where killings of defenders are occurring, which industries are responsible, and how this violence has changed over time
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Documenting killings and disappearances of land and environmental defenders
Every year, Global Witness works with partners to gather evidence, verify and document every time a land and environmental defender is killed or disappeared. Our methodology follows a robust criterion, yet undocumented cases pose challenges when it comes to analysing data
New methodologies
Augmenta: A new tool for AI classification and research
We are making the tool behind some of our investigations available for public use
How we used AI to help us find lobbyists at COP
Every year, Global Witness works with partners in the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition to identify fossil fuel lobbyists who are attending the COP climate talks. For COP29, we pioneered an AI-assisted approach to the process that streamlined and strengthened our analysis
AI's climate promise
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Enabled emissions: How AI helps to supercharge oil and gas production
AI is quietly boosting fossil fuel expansion, helping some of the world’s biggest polluters to drill and extract more oil and gas. It is time to look at the emissions enabled by AI that could exceed the footprint of its infrastructure
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The digital drill: How big oil is using AI to speed up fossil fuel extraction
Some of the world’s richest oil and gas companies are investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up their extraction of new oil and gas
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AI chatbots share climate disinformation and recommend climate denialists to susceptible personas
AI chatbots' personalised answers risk inflaming conspiracy and misinformation, as investigation shows climate disinformation and denialists being shared to sceptic user personas
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