
Fossil Fuels
The burning of fossil fuels is the primary driver of the climate crisis, accounting for over 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. The extensive scientific modeling of future harms and carbon budgets could not be clearer, yet governments continue to allow – and subsidize – the expansion of fossil-fuel production. Across the globe, fossil-fuel production and use harms the health and livelihoods of people living in marginalized communities located in and around coal, oil, and gas sites. Human Rights Watch stands with fence-line communities around the world to end the direct human harms inherent to fossil-fuel projects and uplift local community demands for stricter regulations, moratoria on new exploration and production, and alternative forms of cleaner energy.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Deadly Air Pollution Killing Thousands
Needs Government Action, Less Reliance on Coal
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As COP28 Opens, UN Should Take UAE to Task
Host Country Should Stop Rights Repression, Drop Fossil Fuel Plans
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Ugandan Authorities Should Drop Charges Against Oil Activists
Students Arrested for Criticizing Ugandan Oil Project
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Uganda: Oil Pipeline Protests Stifled
Environmental Defenders Face Harassment, Intimidation, Arbitrary Arrests
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COP28: Climate Action Requires Upholding Rights
Governments Should Confront UAE on Rights Record, Commit to a Fossil Fuel Phase Out
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California’s Governor Should Raise Rights Along with Climate in China
Gavin Newsom Shouldn’t Ignore One Crisis for Another
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Bold Action Needed Following UN Climate Ambition Summit
Heed Call of Global Marches to ‘End Fossil Fuels.’
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Plastics Treaty Draft Takes First Step to Reduce Production
Solutions Should Prioritize Fossil Fuel Phase-out Over Recycling
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Turkey Approves New Coal Mining to Feed Power Plants
Destruction of Forest Latest Battleground on Coal
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Uganda: Oil Pipeline Project Impoverishes Thousands
Land, Livelihoods Lost for Fossil Fuel Project Disastrous for Climate
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US Ends Critical Investigation in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
A Setback for Hopes to End a Longstanding Human Rights Crisis