LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE

We are fighting for justice for communities in Mozambique, and to stop the impunity of the gas industry. When those who are perpetrating the injustices ignore or disregard our communications, letters, demands, meetings and many other ways we raise our demands, we sometimes use more formal means of changing the situation, like through the courts, parliament and congress, official complaint mechanisms, and the United Nations and European Union mechanisms. Here are some of our recent activities.

UK COURT CASE ARTICLES

Climate change: UK’s $1bn support for Mozambique gas project assessed pollution against 2°C warming – not 1.5°C

Sky news
https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-uks-1bn-support-for-mozambique-gas-project-assessed-pollution-against-20c-warming-not-50c-12440917

Friends of the Earth sues Britain over Mozambique LNG project

Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/friends-earth-sues-britain-over-mozambique-lng-project-2021-12-07/?taid=61aff58f78093a00018b8196&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

Climate change: Boris Johnson sent letter urging him to withdraw £867m funding for Mozambique fossil fuel project

Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-boris-johnson-sent-letter-urging-him-to-withdraw-867m-funding-for-mozambique-fossil-fuel-project-12488148

Government taken to court over financing of controversial Mozambique gas project

Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/mozambique-gas-project-high-court-b1970865.html

PARLIAMENT AND CONGRESS

We approach parliamentarians and congresspeople to ask questions in parliaments in our different countries in which the corporations or banks in the industry are based, or where the states themselves are industry players. 

COMPLAINTS

In 2021, we attempted to lay complaints with the official complaints and accountability mechanism of a few state financiers – the United States Export-Import Bank, the US Development Finance Corporation and the Japan Bank for International cooperation.

UNITED NATIONS, EUROPEAN UNION AND MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS

So far, some of our letters to international institutions have included ones to the UN Human Rights Council, on questions to be asked the committee to states involved in the gas industry, and pensions funds investing in fossil fuels, as well as to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders regarding the disappearances of journalists reporting on the gas industry and activists in Cabo Delgado.

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