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Elizabeth Bast

@esbast.bsky.social
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Executive Director @oilchange.bsky.social. Posts my own. Working to wind down fossil fuels for a more environmentally and socially just world. Nature photos for grounding. 🌲

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Stephen Kretzmann @kretzmann.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
You know, fuck climate and fuck carbon. The fact that wars and lots of blood for oil are somehow an acceptable price to pay for energy has never ever been ok. This alone is more than enough reason to phase out fossil fuels asap.
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Response to U.S. military strikes in Venezuela: a fossil-fueled act of war - Oil Change International
In response to U.S. military strikes in Venezuela, Elizabeth Bast, Executive Director, Oil Change International, said: “President Trump’s launch of large‑scale military strikes in Venezuela…
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Elizabeth Bast @esbast.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Yes, there are 49 parts to this thread, and yes, it’s worth reading them all…
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 29/10/2025
NEW 🚨Since the Paris Agreement, 4 Global North countries - the US, Canada, Australia & Norway - blocked global progress on oil and gas phaseout. While the rest of the world reduced oil & gas production by 2%, these 4 countries increased production by nearly 40%. oilchange.org/publications...
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 17/01/2025
5/5 @oilchange.bsky.social Executive Director @esbast.bsky.social says: "Our movements are stronger than fossil fuel greed. Every pipeline stopped, every permit blocked, every community protected brings us closer to the just, fossil-free future we know is possible. When we stand together, we win."
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 17/01/2025
1/5 Trump's Day One executive orders are a full-scale assault on climate action, delivering returns on the $75 million fossil fuel companies spent to elect him. Our statement: oilchange.org/news/oil-cha... And 🧵
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Oil Change International Statement on Trump’s Day One Assault on Climate Action
As Donald Trump prepares to take office as the 47th president, fossil fuel executives are expecting a return on the $75 million they spent to elect him. Trump’s Day One executive orders represent a…
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 08/01/2025
The LA wildfires are being supercharged by the climate crisis. Scientists have long known that burning fossil fuels heats our planet and makes wildfires fiercer & deadlier. Yet our leaders have allowed fossil fuel production to rise to record levels. www.axios.com/2025/01/08/c...
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LA's wildfires sparked by rare collision of climate factors
Extremely dry conditions and an hurricane force winds are overlapping unusually late in the year.
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Elizabeth Bast @esbast.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Happy solstice!
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 09/12/2024
It's critical to bring creativity + art into political movements, they're sources of hope in dark times. Join our intergenerational conversation: Amy Goodman @democracynow.org Nnimmo Bassey Aneesa Khan @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Hilja 📅 Dec 12 2pm ET Register: act.oilchange.org/forms/findin...
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Finding Hope in Art and Activism
An intergenerational and international conversation moderated by Amy Goodman and featuring Nigerian author and activist Nnimmo Bassey, U.S. writer and public figure Rebecca Solnit, graphic artist (and...
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 27/11/2024
#COP29 wrapped up this past weekend and the outcome was deeply flawed. You may have see some big numbers making the headlines, but they're a dangerous smokescreen hiding what really took place. Read our analysis and highlights amidst the haze: oilchange.org/blogs/cop29-...
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COP29 Dispatch: A $300 Billion Smokescreen
COP29 concluded this past weekend with a deeply flawed agreement on climate finance that plans for fossil fuel phaseout failure and has been carefully crafted by rich countries to dodge their responsi...
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Green and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
~NEW EPISODE~ Big Oil’s Capture of the UN Climate Summit continues at #COP29 Ft. @allieeerose.bsky.social w/ @oilchange.bsky.social 🎙️: bit.ly/4fX42nh
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 23/11/2024
#COP29 is wrapping up and the climate finance deal is a scam. Rich countries are creating debt traps for the Global South instead of paying their fair share. The US, EU & UK show sickening indifference while millions pay with their lives. Our response: www.oilchange.org/news/cop29-c...
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COP29 Conclusion: Rich Nations Block Progress on Climate Finance and Phase-out
In response the final NCQG text, Laurie van der Burg, Oil Change International Global Public Finance Manager, said: “This is outrageous. In Baku, self-proclaimed climate leaders display sickening…
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Elizabeth Bast @esbast.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Waiting to see what comes through at #COP29. Same old story though — a lot of dodging responsibility and refusing to look out for one another by the U.S. and other rich countries. When are we going to accept that we are all in this together and we need #climatejustice and real #climateaction?
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Elizabeth Bast @esbast.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Negotiators at #COP29 still have a lot of work to do. Rich countries must step up and take meaningful steps to finance a just transition.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 21/11/2024
Today, we joined nearly 300 organizations in calling on the Biden administration to use the time he has left to stop the expansion of LNG infrastructure. The science is clear: We can't afford any new LNG projects if we are to limit warming to 1.5°. www.oilchange.org/news/open-le...
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Nearly 300 organizations call on Biden to end LNG expansion before Trump takes office
Today, nearly 300 organizations from around the world sent a letter to President Biden that calls on him to use the time he has left to stop the further expansion of LNG infrastructure…
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 19/11/2024
🚨 Biden's last chance to secure a major climate win: Supporting the Trump-proof OECD deal to end $41B in oil & gas export finance. Read OCI's @esbast.bsky.social piece in @climatehome.bsky.social: www.climatechangenews.com/2024/11/19/h...
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How Biden can score a $41 billion Trump-proof win for climate action
The US government must support a landmark OECD agreement to end international oil and gas export finance
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 19/11/2024
In his final months in office, President Biden has crucial opportunities to secure his climate legacy and prevent Trump from eroding hard-won climate progress. www.oilchange.org/blogs/bidens... Here’s what we need to see from him over the next 60 days:
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Biden’s Final Climate Test: Time for Bold Action on Fossil Fuels
By Collin Rees and Valentina Stackl In his final two months in office, President Biden has crucial opportunities to secure his climate legacy and prevent the Trump administration from eroding hard-won...
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Elizabeth Bast @esbast.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hot take on President Biden's final opportunities to support a just transition away from oil and gas, including ending oil and gas finance at the OECD; denying LNG export applications, and stopping pipelines. @oilchange.bsky.social @collinrees.bsky.social www.oilchange.org/blogs/bidens...
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Elizabeth Bast @esbast.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
As the fossil fuel industry feels pressure, campaigners increasingly face retaliation. We stand in solidarity with long-time ally Antonio Tricarico and ReCommon in the face of oil giant Eni's escalating attacks against civil society. www.recommon.org/en/eni-denou...
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Eni denounces Antonio Tricarico of ReCommon for his interview with RAI Report - ReCommon
THE ASSOCIATION: ‘YET ANOTHER ATTACK TO TRY AND SHUT US UP‘ Rome, 18 November 2024 – Eni, through its head
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Elizabeth Bast @esbast.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Breathe in, breathe out…
Rainbow over a beach with forested mountain behind.
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Elizabeth Bast @esbast.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
South Korea wins Fossil of the Day at #COP29 for continuing to be a blocker on an OECD agreement to end $41 billion a year in fossil fuel finance. We’ll be watching the OECD this week, as they negotiate this potentially historic deal.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 18/11/2024
The first week of the #COP29 climate talks just wrapped! Our team on the ground has been working hard to push back against industry spin and pressure rich countries to pay up. Here are the highlights: www.oilchange.org/blogs/cop29-...
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COP29 Dispatch: The biggest stories from week 1
The first week of the UN climate negotiations (COP29) just wrapped up in Azerbaijan – and it has been a busy week! Last year at COP28, we achieved something unprecedented: the world'
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Elizabeth Bast @esbast.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This is BIG if the Biden Administration is willing to push it though: OECD negotiations next week can lock down 37 countries ending government-backed oil and gas finance. And it will be tough for Trump to backtrack on. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Biden Mulls Fossil Fuel Finance Curbs That Could Outlast Trump
The Biden administration is weighing a last-ditch push for an international agreement that would restrict financial support for foreign oil and gas projects before critical talks start in Paris.
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Elizabeth Bast @esbast.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
#COP29 in Baku is all about getting the money needed to finance an energy transition. OilChange.bsky.social's analysis shows how private sector finance won't be enough. Governments must put public funds on the table for a just energy transition. #PayUpAndPhaseOut www.oilchange.org/blogs/cop29-...
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COP29 Explainer: Why we can’t rely on the private sector to finance the energy transition
The deadline for a new climate finance goal (NCQG) at COP29 means the rich countries most responsible for the climate crisis are being called on to pay their fair share for a fossil fuel phaseout and…
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 14/11/2024
It's COP season, so lets get right to the data-y good stuff! New analysis of the IEA's WEO report shows allowing more US LNG export capacity is a surefire way to cook the planet. We can't afford new LNG & can't afford LNG under construction to come online: www.oilchange.org/blogs/us-lng...
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US LNG Flies in the Face of Mainstream Climate Analysis: the Department of Energy must stop all expansion now.
In January of last year, the Biden administration ordered a pause on permitting new Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) export capacity while it updates the studies it uses to determine whether such projects…
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Elizabeth Bast @esbast.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Well, hello! Nice to be seeing blue sky rather than a black X.
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