REPORTS / PUBLICATIONS
Here are a selection of reports written by partners in the Say No to Gas! Campaign, and others we believe provide intensive and honest information and analysis of the gas industry in Mozambique. Some give testimonies of affected communities, others detangle the complex economic and financial web the industry has created.
New website: ExitLNG.org
A new website ExitLNG.org is exposing the unprecedented LNG boom and the financial players behind it. It includes detailed case studies on projects, including the Rovuma LNG project of ExxonMobil and Eni in the Rovuma Basin, offshore Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique....
Fuelling carbon lock-ins in Mozambique: the role of ECAs and investment protection
Mozambique has become one of Africa’s major frontlines in the global struggle to align energy investment with climate goals. Fuelling Carbon Lock-ins in Mozambique examines how export credit agencies (ECAs) have channelled unprecedented levels of public finance into...
How can Export Finance and Investment Treaties Support Climate Investments? Insights from Angola
This policy brief delves into the complex interplay between export finance and the protections offered through investment treaties and how these two support schemes have facilitated large-scale fossil fuel projects. The brief highlights the implications of this...
Overcoming carbon lock-in: Rethinking Export Finance and Investment Law
The report provides an in-depth analysis of how Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) and Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms shape Africa’s energy future. Using empirical data, the report shows how the majority of export finance still flows to fossil fuel...
True Risk: The environmental risks of deep-sea gas exploitation in the Rovuma Basin of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
True Risk: The environmental risks of deep-sea gas exploitation in the Rovuma Basin of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique There is not enough research on either the ecology and biodiversity of the Rovuma Basin, or the impacts of deep sea gas exploitation, to be able to assess...
Toolkit: Disrupting energy corporations for the liberation of Palestine
Disrupting Energy Corporations for the Liberation of Palestine is a a culmination of a year of work and collaboration by organisations across the world, with 20+ contributing organisations and researchers. It focuses on two energy corporations, Eni and Dana Petroleum,...
Hidden flames: flaring at Coral South FLNG
Press Release from ReCommon: Portuguese | English | Italian ENI has not revealed the true extent of greenhouse gas emissions in Mozambique, according to ReCommon’s new report “Hidden Flames” Rome, March 26, 2025 – ReCommon today publishes “Hidden Flames”, a new report...
Paid for Approval
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?
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
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)...
South African Public Financing of the Mozambique Liquid Natural Gas Project
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 &...
Billion-dollar exposure: Investor-state dispute settlement in Mozambique’s fossil fuel sector
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
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)...
Navigating Decisions: The risks to Mozambique from liquified natural gas export projects
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)...
Assessment of Mozambique LNG’s Human Rights Due Diligence: Report by Uprights
The lawyers at Uprights wrote this report for JA! and partners which does an analysis of TotalEnergies’ Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) of the Mozambique LNG Project in Cabo Delgado. The HRDD, done by LKL Consulting in 2020, warned TotalEnergies that the violent...
The Treaty Trap – gas companies
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...
Humanizing Security in Cabo Delgado: Report by the Investigative Journalism Centre, Mozambique
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...
Fuelling the Crisis: Report by JA!, Friends of the Earth Europe, Friends of the Earth France and others
New report exposes how public money is used to fund destructive gas projects in northern Mozambique Friends of the Earth groups and friends from Mozambique, France, Italy, the UK, the US, Netherlands and Italy have written this report detailing the way in which...
What I saw is death: Report by Amnesty International
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...
Banking on Climate chaos: Report by Banktrack
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...
Burning the gas bridge fuel myth: Report by Oil Change international
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...
Extractive industry concessions in Mozambique – Report by Centro de Integridade Publica (CIP)
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...
Five years lost: Report by Urgewald
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...
De L’Eldorado Gazier au Chaos – Report by Les Amis de la Terre
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...