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The project is further condemned for risking military tensions between Greece and Turkey and for its high carbon footprint, which would undermine the EU's goal to reduce gas consumption by 90 percent by 2050. Global Witness calls for the EU to remove all gas projects from its Project of Common Interest (PCI) list and amend the TEN-E Regulation to end support for fossil gas infrastructure.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000072#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The EastMed pipeline is a proposed 1,900 km project costing up to €7 billion that would transport gas from Israel's offshore fields through Cyprus and Greece to Italy and beyond. It has received €36 million in EU funds, representing half of all investment to date, and holds Project of Common Interest (PCI) status.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000072#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Energean is currently the only company to have committed to transporting gas through the pipeline, signing a deal in January 2020 to transport 2 bcm of gas to Greece via DEPA.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000072#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Energean's co-founders, Mathios Rigas and Efstathios Topouzoglou, allegedly used €66 million in loans from Laiki Bank in 2010 to invest €50 million in Marfin Investment Group (MIG) bonds. Laiki's administrators claim such loans to third parties to benefit the bank's Chairman helped cause the bank's collapse and the subsequent Cypriot financial crisis.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000072#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The funds from the Laiki loans were used to capitalize Energean; between February 2010 and the following year, the company's share capital at least doubled, with over €53 million invested into Cypriot Energean entities from shell companies owned by the co-founders.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000072#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The pipeline is likely to increase regional military tensions, as its route passes through disputed Mediterranean waters claimed by Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey, competing with Turkey's TANAP pipeline.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000072#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"EastMed contradicts EU climate goals; if the pipeline operated at full capacity from 2025 to 2050, it would produce more carbon than the current annual combined emissions of France, Spain, and Italy.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000072#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The EU's support for such projects is driven by the Trans-European Networks for Energy (TEN-E) Regulation, which Global Witness argues provides preferential treatment and taxpayer funds to fossil gas infrastructure through the PCI status and the Connecting Europe Facility.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000072#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["natural gas","carbon dioxide emissions","energy transition","climate finance","stranded asset"],"geography_discussed":["Greece","Cyprus","Israel","Turkey","United States","France","Spain","Italy"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["corporate investigation","policy analysis","environmental impact assessment"]},{"id":"glowit-000073","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/glowit-000073","title":"Our verdict on COP27: a polluters’ parade","publisher":{"name":"Global Witness","organization":"global-witness"},"document_type":"statement","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/forests/our-verdict-on-cop27-a-polluters-parade/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"Global Witness characterizes COP27 as a failure, primarily because world leaders did not agree to phase out fossil fuels despite the presence of 636 fossil fuel lobbyists. 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Pennsylvania is forecast to be the third largest producer, with more than double the production of Russia.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000083#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"While global oil and gas production needs to decrease by 40% over the next decade to mitigate the worst climate change impacts, US output is instead projected to increase by 25% due to expansion in new fields.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000083#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Government subsidies for fossil fuels, which range from $4.6 billion to $649 billion annually, are critical to the viability of new US oil fields; one study suggests up to half of these fields rely on such subsidies to remain economically viable.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000083#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Failure to mitigate climate change could result in annual costs to the US economy exceeding $500 billion by 2090 under a high emissions scenario.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000083#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["fossil fuel industry","fossil fuel subsidy","greenhouse gas emissions","just transition","climate finance","renewable energy"],"geography_discussed":["Canada","Russia","Texas","Pennsylvania","Brazil","Saudi Arabia"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy analysis","forecast"]},{"id":"glowit-000085","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/glowit-000085","title":"Not just a climate change statistic: Derek Cabe on the frontline of the climate crisis in the Philippines","publisher":{"name":"Global Witness","organization":"global-witness"},"document_type":"statement","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/land-and-environmental-defenders/not-just-a-climate-change-statistic-derek-cabe-on-the-frontline-of-the-climate-crisis-in-the-philippines/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"Derek Cabe describes the devastating impact of super-typhoons in the Philippines and advocates for legal accountability for major fossil fuel corporations. He highlights the findings of the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights, which linked carbon pollution to human rights violations, and calls for the protection of land and environmental defenders who face violence and 'red-tagging' while opposing coal-fired power plants.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000085#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The Philippines is highly vulnerable to climate-driven weather events despite contributing less than 1% of global carbon emissions. The author cites the devastation of typhoon Ondoy, which left 80% of Manila devastated, and super-typhoon Yolanda in 2013, which caused over 6,000 deaths and displaced millions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000085#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights (CHR) concluded that major carbon polluters should be held liable for their contributions to climate change within the country. This finding is intended to provide a basis for future legal actions to hold companies responsible for climate-related human rights violations.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000085#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Environmental and land defenders in the Philippines face severe persecution, including 'red-tagging'—a tactic used to smear activists by associating them with communist insurgents. Over the last decade, 270 land and environmental defenders have been killed in the Philippines.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000085#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The author criticizes the Philippine government for continuing to invest in fossil fuel projects, specifically coal-fired power plants, which he links to environmental degradation, community displacement, and toxic waste pollution.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000085#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate change","human rights","carbon dioxide emissions","coal-fired power station","climate justice","renewable energy","climate finance","extreme weather event"],"geography_discussed":["Luzon","Manila","Bataan","Egypt"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["personal statement","policy advocacy"]},{"id":"glowit-000087","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/glowit-000087","title":"Shell’s looming billion-dollar blood money payday","publisher":{"name":"Global Witness","organization":"global-witness"},"document_type":"statement","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-fuels/shells-looming-billion-dollar-blood-money-payday/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"Global Witness highlights that despite Shell's public claims of exiting Russia and writing down its assets, the company may receive over $1 billion from a bid by Novatek for its stake in the Sakhalin-II project. The author contends that 'writing down' assets is a meaningless accounting measure that does not end legal ownership. The document calls for Shell to donate these funds to Ukraine, noting that such a payout would cover more than 10% of the direct damage caused by Russia to Ukraine's energy infrastructure.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000087#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Shell may receive more than $1 billion from a bid by the Russian gas company Novatek for its stake in the Sakhalin-II project, despite Shell previously writing down its Russian investments as losses.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000087#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The process of 'writing down' an asset is described as an accounting measure that stops a company from counting an asset's value in its portfolio but does not alter the legal ownership of that asset.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000087#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"A payout from the Sakhalin-II sale would cover more than 10% of the direct damage inflicted on Ukraine's energy infrastructure by Russian attacks over the past year.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000087#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Ukrainian government and the World Bank estimate that the total costs for reconstruction in Ukraine will reach at least $411 billion.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000087#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["petroleum industry","energy infrastructure","fossil fuel industry"],"geography_discussed":["United Kingdom","Latvia"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy analysis","ethical critique"]},{"id":"glowit-000089","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/glowit-000089","title":"Despite Putin’s atrocities in Ukraine, insurers enable the export of 40 million barrels of Russian oil","publisher":{"name":"Global Witness","organization":"global-witness"},"document_type":"statement","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-fuels/despite-putins-atrocities-in-ukraine-insurers-enable-the-export-of-40-million-barrels-of-russian-oil/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"Global Witness reports that between February 24 and March 21, 2022, over 360 ships carrying approximately 39.3 million barrels of crude oil, 7.52 million barrels of fuel oil, 473,000 tonnes of LNG, and 2.82 million tonnes of coal from Russian ports were insured by members of the International Group of P&I Clubs (IGP&I). The document asserts that this insurance, required by EU law and international conventions, facilitates the trade of 'conflict fuel' that funds Russia's war in Ukraine. While the IGP&I acknowledges that collective withdrawal of cover could have an 'immediate effect' on volumes, it claims this would only cause a 'limited short-term hiatus' as owners might seek alternative insurance. Only one club, Gard, responded to inquiries about excluding such shipowners, arguing that withdrawing protection could expose 'innocent third parties to risks'.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000089#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Between 24 February and 21 March 2022, more than 360 ships transported significant quantities of Russian fossil fuels, including 39.3 million barrels of crude oil, 7.52 million barrels of fuel oil, 473,000 tonnes of liquefied natural gas, and 2.82 million tonnes of coal.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000089#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The vessels transporting these Russian fossil fuels were insured by members of the International Group of P&I Clubs (IGP&I), which provides liability cover for 90% of the world's seaborne cargo and is required by international conventions and EU law.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000089#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The IGP&I stated that while collectively terminating insurance for shipowners carrying Russian fossil fuels would likely have an 'immediate effect' on volumes, it would probably only result in a 'limited short-term hiatus' because determined owners could find alternative insurance.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000089#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Gard, the only club to respond to Global Witness, argued against withdrawing protections, claiming it could have the 'unintended consequence' of exposing 'innocent third parties to risks'.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000089#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["crude oil","liquefied natural gas","coal","fossil fuel"],"geography_discussed":["European Union"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy analysis","corporate accountability"]},{"id":"glowit-000090","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/glowit-000090","title":"De las palabras a la acción: un punto de inflexión para los/las personas defensoras en América Latina","publisher":{"name":"Global Witness","organization":"global-witness"},"document_type":"statement","language":"es","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://globalwitness.org/es/campaigns/land-and-environmental-defenders/de-las-palabras-a-la-acci%C3%B3nun-punto-de-inflexi%C3%B3n-para-los-las-personas-defensoras-en-am%C3%A9rica-latina/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"Global Witness calls for the acceleration of the Escazú Agreement's implementation to combat the high rate of killings of environmental and land defenders in Latin America. The region accounts for two-thirds of global murders of such defenders. The document highlights specific failures and progress in countries like Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, urging governments to ensure justice and companies to perform due diligence in extractive projects to prevent further violence.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000090#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Latin America has experienced the highest number of murders of environmental and land defenders annually for a decade, representing two-thirds of the global total.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000090#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Escazú Agreement, signed in 2018, is the first legally binding international instrument focused on protecting defenders, emphasizing public participation, access to information, and access to justice.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000090#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Despite the Escazú Agreement, at least 487 environmental defenders were murdered in Latin America between September 27, 2018, and the end of 2021.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000090#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Colombia recently ratified the Escazú Agreement, a significant step given that at least 322 defenders have been killed there in the last decade.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000090#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Mexico and Brazil are highlighted for their failure to protect defenders; Mexico saw at least 61 murders between November 5, 2020, and the end of 2021, while Brazil has the highest number of documented murders over the last decade and has not ratified the Escazú Agreement.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000090#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["human rights","extractive industry","climate crisis"],"geography_discussed":["Colombia","Chile","Ecuador","Mexico","Brazil","World"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy analysis","human rights monitoring"]},{"id":"glowit-000091","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/glowit-000091","title":"We shouldn't be fooled by BP's climate claims","publisher":{"name":"Global Witness","organization":"global-witness"},"document_type":"statement","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-fuels/we-shouldnt-be-fooled-by-bps-climate-claims/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"Global Witness asserts that BP's claim of alignment with Paris climate goals is false, as more than half of its planned $140 billion investment in oil and gas over the next decade involves new extraction. The organization contends that BP's models rely on an improbable 14,000% increase in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) capacity over 20 years to justify continued fossil fuel production, whereas IPCC findings suggest a need for a 40% drop in oil and gas production over the next decade.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000091#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"More than 50% of BP's planned $140 billion investment in oil and gas over the next ten years is considered incompatible with avoiding the worst impacts of climate change because it involves production from new oil and gas fields.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000091#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To meet UN climate agreement ambitions and IPCC 1.5°C targets, oil and gas production must decrease by approximately 40% over the next decade, with global emissions falling by 45% by 2030 and reaching net zero by 2050.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000091#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"BP's internal climate models project a much slower decline in oil production (4% by 2030) and a 16% increase in gas consumption, relying on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to offset emissions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000091#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"BP's strategy depends on an unrealistic expansion of CCS technology, requiring a growth of over 14,000% in 20 years, which would necessitate building 2,500 new plants (one every three days) given that only 17 currently exist globally.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000091#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["Paris Agreement","fossil fuel industry","carbon capture and storage","Net-zero emissions","fossil fuel finance","climate modeling"],"geography_discussed":[],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["corporate accountability","policy critique"]},{"id":"glowit-000092","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/glowit-000092","title":"According to US President Donald Trump, the fewer trees, the less possibility of a forest fire","publisher":{"name":"Global Witness","organization":"global-witness"},"document_type":"statement","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/forests/trumps-earth-day/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document argues that President Donald Trump's 2018 executive order to increase logging by 31 percent to prevent forest fires is misleading and dangerous. It asserts that large-scale industrial timber harvesting is associated with worse fires in some regions and that the primary drivers of worsening fires are climate change, excessive drought, high winds, and heat. 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Analysis suggests the deal may be unfair to the DRC, specifically noting that a signature bonus to Gécamines might only be worth 50 percent of the promised headline figure. The report also highlights concerns regarding a fixer, Siu Kam Ng, who admitted to making suspect payments to DRC officials and currently holds a stake in CNMC's DRC businesses. 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