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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · 12h

Some very good news 🌞 Please consider coming to work with our team to help fill Laurie's big shoes while she is on maternity leave!

Laurie van der Burg @laurievdburg.bsky.social · 19h

I'm going on maternity leave in Jan 🤰 and I am looking for a cover!

If you want to join @oilchange.bsky.social to help end fossil fuel finance & increase support for a just transition, do apply! Climate litigation experience is a plus.

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Senior Adviser - Global Public Finance (January - June 2026)

Job Opening: Senior Adviser - Global Public Finance (January - June 2026) at Oil Change International in Oil Change International.

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Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · 14d

“It’s encouraging to see new national climate plans (NDCs), but the fact that they still fall short of the 1.5°C survival limit is a collective failure."

Read our response to the UN Special High-Level Event on Climate Action: oilchange.org/news/in-resp...

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In response to the UN Special High-Level Event on Climate Action - Oil Change International

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK, 24 September 2025 – Today, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres hosted a Special High-Level Event on Climate Action, where over 100 countries presented…

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · 8d

It's impossible to imagine multilateralism solving climate or *anything* while genocide continues.

So these #COP30 demands are the bare minimum. Leaders from @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social to @mark-carney.bsky.social must adopt energy & arms embargos NOW 🍉

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Palestinian Coalition COP30 Demands - ‘No Climate Justice without Palestinian Liberation’ - Global Energy Embargo For Palestine

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Anjali Appadurai @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social · 16d

Every year we get a clearer picture of the opportunity cost of our current path of austerity and war.

Canada must step up to pay its fair share to the Global South, not as an act of charity, but as an act of unlocking climate action for all of us.

Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · 16d

🚨New research🚨Rich countries can unlock $6.6 trillion for climate action by ending fossil fuels handouts, making polluters pay, defunding wars, taxing the super rich. There’s no shortage of $$ for action. It’s just in the wrong hands.
#FixtheFinance

➡️ Read more: oilchange.org/we-can-pay-for-it/

We Can Pay For It - Oil Change International

We Can Pay for It factsheet shows rich counties can unlock $6.6 trillion for climate action

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Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · 16d

🚨New research🚨Rich countries can unlock $6.6 trillion for climate action by ending fossil fuels handouts, making polluters pay, defunding wars, taxing the super rich. There’s no shortage of $$ for action. It’s just in the wrong hands.
#FixtheFinance

➡️ Read more: oilchange.org/we-can-pay-for-it/

We Can Pay For It - Oil Change International

We Can Pay for It factsheet shows rich counties can unlock $6.6 trillion for climate action

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · 16d

While some governments are doubling down on a fossil fuel, war, and inequality economy (👀 @mark-carney.bsky.social 👀), there is serious momentum from others to take this public money back.

Read more here ⤵️
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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · 16d

Next time a politician says we can't afford climate finance, healthcare, public transit, or housing send them this 📈🤑 oilchange.org/publications...

Graph - annual public finance that can be raised by fair, polluter pays measures

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · 16d

Billionaire & fossil fuel company wealth keeps rising and so does THE AMOUNT OF MONEY WE CAN TAKE BACK TO DO GOOD THINGS WITH IT 🦾

Since we first did this calculation last year the total has risen 24% (from $5.3 tn) (!!)

@priceofoil.bsky.social #DrawtheLine #TaxtheRich #FundOurFuture

Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · 16d

🚨New research🚨Rich countries can unlock $6.6 trillion for climate action by ending fossil fuels handouts, making polluters pay, defunding wars, taxing the super rich. There’s no shortage of $$ for action. It’s just in the wrong hands.
#FixtheFinance

➡️ Read more: oilchange.org/we-can-pay-for-it/

We Can Pay For It - Oil Change International

We Can Pay for It factsheet shows rich counties can unlock $6.6 trillion for climate action

oilchange.org

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · Aug 18

Cannot understate how important it is that #canlab is united and ready to fight the federal government's repeated override of constitutional labour rights (!!)

Now it's up to rest of us to support the HELL out of these picket lines 🫡🍕🛬📢 x.com/PresidentCLC...

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Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · Aug 7

"The deal deepens Egypt’s reliance on Israeli gas at a time when many Egyptians are angry at Israel’s offensive and disappointed that Cairo has not done more to alleviate the suffering of starving Gazans."

www.ft.com/content/d699...

Israeli group strikes $35bn natural gas deal with Egypt despite Gaza conflict

Flows from Israel’s Leviathan field will nearly triple by 2029 in what NewMed chief calls a ‘win-win’

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Friends of the Earth U.S. (Action) @foeus.bsky.social · Jul 15

Mozambique LNG is a known site of environmental and human rights violations – and the US Export-Import Bank (EXIM) approved billions of tax dollars to fund this project without proper environmental review, economic assessments, or public input.

We're taking them to court.

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Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · Jul 7

🚨NEW Webinar🚨

📝Public Finance for the Just Energy Transition
🗓️ Date: July 8, 2025
⏰ Time: 8am - 9am ET

Join us for this webinar discussing why private finance is not delivering a just energy transition and why public finance must lead the way.

Register here ➡️ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Jon Sward @jonsward.bsky.social · Jul 1

At Climate & Debt side event at #FfD4, @andrewlfanning.bsky.social highlights unpaid climate debt of Global North, contrasted with the debts of the Global South that are crowding out finance for health and education

This is a world deeply out of balance, in terms of meeting human needs #FfD4People

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · Jul 1

Asked about downgrading Ecuador's credit rating following ending oil in Yasuni, a rep from Fitch says:

"We're just a consensus funnel. It's not us, it's the traders, it's AI."

The clearest case yet to regulate credit rating agencies & build public alternatives #FfD4People @afrodad.bsky.social

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · Jul 1

At FfD4 rich countries (🇨🇦🇪🇺🇯🇵🇬🇧!) have blocked the urgently needed UN debt workout mechanism that social movements & Global South governments are pushing for.

But this fight is just starting! Join @oilchange.bsky.social and many partners to discuss the path forward at #FfD4People today in Seville🌄

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Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · Jun 30

We’re in Seville, it’s 41C, and world leaders are starting to arrive for Financing for Development. This UN gathering happens once a decade to set major rules and goals for global finance, debt, tax & trade. Here’s our running thread on major developments. #FfD4People #TaxTheSuperRich #JusticeForAll

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · Jun 28

40 former heads of state sounding extremely reasonable: “Trillions of dollars exist for financing development – but too much public money is captured by private power.” www.theguardian.com/business/202... #FfD4

Ex-world leaders call for ‘powerful shift’ as they warn of extreme inequality

Former leaders urge current state heads to work together to end poverty amid potential of first trillionaires emerging

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Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · Jun 25

@shereentt.bsky.social: "Climate finance MUST not deepen inequality!"

Real climate action 🟰 Climate finance in public grants, NOT more debt-creating loans

✅We can pay for a #justtransition by: 1️⃣Making polluters pay 2️⃣Taxing the rich 3️⃣ Defunding war

More in NEW report: oilchange.org/publications...

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · Jun 25

There are lots of seeds to build on:

⚖️Global South gov'ts, pushed by people power, are starting to win fairer tax & debt rules
🔁 Clear examples showing RE is the best path to econ security & detangle from USD 💸
👷‍♀️Unions from 🇨🇴 to 🇹🇹 to 🇬🇧 are fighting for bold transition plans #PayUp #FfD4People

Private Fantasies, Public Realities: Why private finance isn’t delivering an energy transition and the case for public sector leadership - Oil Change International

This report Private Fantasies, Public Realities: Why private finance isn’t delivering an energy transition and the case for public sector leadership details how governments’ dominant “private-sector…

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · Jun 25

I get that it's hard to imagine governments doing good, big things (as per the @financialtimes.com here), but it's the far far likelier way to win *any* energy transition, let alone a JUST one.

We can and must build stronger political movements to push them to do it! www.ft.com/content/8e5f...

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · Jun 25

Rich countries also refuse to #PayUp their fair share of climate finance. Instead they push "blended finance" where below-market public loans, equity etc are supposed to attract 4-7 times more private investment.

We found it's more like 1 to 1. oilchange.org/publications...

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · Jun 25

Because our global financial rules are very outdated & unfair, most countries don't have the 💰 or sovereignty to pursue a publicly-led approach to just energy transition. And the terms available for private finance are far worse than in 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧🇦🇺!

This is why the global $ breakdown looks like this:

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · Jun 25

Using more tools in tandem (public ownership, community-led planning, private finance and industrial regulations) would be even better. This is what it will take to get to ALL key areas going 🚄👩🏾‍🏭🔋🏡

We can see pieces of this in e.g. China, Brazil, Chile: www.stampoutpoverty.org/wf_library_p...

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · Jun 25

Where we DO see more of the $ needed for just energy transition, governments are driving. Many needed green sectors finally got subsidies at scale with COVID-19 recovery *in rich countries*.

For EVs and RE this money has attracted further private finance (particularly from households!)

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Bronwen Tucker @bronwentucker.bsky.social · Jun 25

Wind is now very cheap! So is solar and (some) EVs. But assuming this is enough to spur an energy transition is a grave misunderstanding of how we got here 🥵 in the 1st place: MASSIVE, ONGOING government subsidies & regulations written by and for fossil fuel companies oilchange.org/publications...

Private Fantasies, Public Realities: Why private finance isn’t delivering an energy transition and the case for public sector leadership - Oil Change International

This report Private Fantasies, Public Realities: Why private finance isn’t delivering an energy transition and the case for public sector leadership details how governments’ dominant “private-sector…

oilchange.org

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