REPORTS / PUBLICATIONS

Paid for Approval: How consulting firms and investment service providers enable human rights violations and climate injustice: the case of gas in Mozambique This report looks critically at the systemic issues raised by service providers that are being tasked with...

Acceptable Risk? How the security threat in Cabo Delgado was ignored for the benefit of ‘The Netherlands Ltd. The Dutch government threatens to blunder again by providing export support for TotalEnergies' controversial gas project in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. This...

Anything But Natural: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Expansion Threats to Coastal and Marine Ecosystems New maps and analysis from research organization Earth Insight and partners paint a sobering picture of current plans to expand Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)...

The report discusses the role of South African development finance institutions in supporting a project that has already seen grave negative social and environmental impacts and which is not likely to deliver strong economic benefits to Mozambique. Overy &...

Published by Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, February 2024 Salvatore and Gubeissi, ‘Billion-dollar exposure: Investor-state dispute settlement in Mozambique's fossil fuel sector’, January 2024, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Please access the...

Total Turmoil: Unveiling South Korea's Stake in Mozambique's Climate and Humanitarian Crisis Published by Solutions For Our Climate (SFOC), January 2024. The report identifies the participation of South Korean corporations in Mozambique’s liquified natural gas (LNG)...

Published by International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), December 2023 Halsey et al, ‘Navigating Decisions: The risks to Mozambique from liquefied natural gas export projects’, December 2023, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)...

The treaty trap: tax avoidance in Mozambique’s extractive industries; the gas companies Published by Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) and The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), 21 July 2024 van Teeffelen & Kiezebrink, 2023, "The...

In February 2021, civil society organisations in Mozambique and South Africa with international allies, established a coalition focusing on the Cabo Delgado crisis. It aimed to spotlight the violence in Cabo Delgado and push for accountability and improve the living...

War crimes in Mozambique's forgotten cape Cabo Delgado is the poorest province in Mozambique and has experienced decades of under-investment, government negligence and severe poverty. It has been further devastated by the gas industry which began appearing in 2017, at...

This report analyses fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest commercial and investment banks and finds that these banks poured a total of $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels from 2016–2020. Fossil fuel financing dropped 9% last year, parallel to the global drop...

This report analyses the narrative that fossil gas is a “bridge fuel”. And shows how this is not true. It shows that even with zero methane leakage, gas is not a climate change solution. To meet climate goals, fossil gas production and consumption must, like that of...

Mining Concession requests increase as armed conflict in Cabo Delgado intensifies As the scandal known as Panama Papers, showed in 2016, concealing the identity of the people who actually benefit from the exploitation of natural resources carries high risks of...

This report details 12 alarming cases showing how governments and coal, oil and gas companies are planning massive increases in the amount of hydrocarbons dug out and sucked from the ground. There is no hope for staying under 1.5° if this explosion of fossil fuel...

France thrusts Mozambique into the fossil fuel trap Between 2010 and 2013, huge gas deposits were discovered in Mozambique. Around 5 trillion cubic meters were found, making this the 9th largest gas reserve in the world. Over the coming years, a projected minimum of...

The IMF is exacerbating the climate crisis with more tax breaks for coal and gas. This paper provides a summary of a review of IMF loan operations in Mozambique and Mongolia. The review aimed to identify climate change related economic policies and specific structural...

Fossil gas is a dangerous fuel which destroys the climate and the environment wherever it gets extracted and used. This report summarizes some of the harms created by the fossil gas industry and looks at who actually pays the price for new fossil gas and fossil gas...

In 2010 and after four years of exploration, United States company Anadarko made a major gas discovery in the Rovuma Basin, in Mozambique, fuelling the dreams of economic transformation and growth for the east African nation. However, the development of the fields was...

This report asks the question: is the World Bank providing the Right Incentives for Low-Carbon Development in Mozambique? The climate crisis and climate goals require both the promotion of renewable energy and the significant reduction in fossil fuel usage. Given...

How Banks Can Protect the World's Most Iconic Cultural and Natural Sites Eighty five percent of wetlands have disappeared, and critical tropical forests continue to burn . Humanity is pushing against the planet’s boundaries. But there are fewer and fewer places left...