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The world’s five largest listed oil companies have made profits of more than a quarter of a trillion dollars since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to dramatic increases in energy prices and household bills.

The United Arab Emirates on Thursday, January 12, 2023, named a veteran technocrat who both leads Abu Dhabi's state-run oil company and oversees its renewable energy efforts to be the president of the upcoming United Nations climate negotiations in Dubai, highlighting the balancing act ahead for this crude-producing nation.

Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which assumed the position of the deadliest country in the annual report by nongovernmental organization Global Witness.

Carbon capture’s questionable numbers spell concern for Canada’s hydrogen plans

At least 227 land and environment defenders were killed in 2020, making it the deadliest year on record, and international NGO Global Witness says that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Foreign mining and energy companies that invest in the region have a responsibility to help safeguard local activists.

The Guardian’s extraordinary Defenders project recorded the deaths of people around the world fighting to save the planet. Here, the series’ lead writer remembers their stories.

A report today by Global Witness shows environmental protesters are increasingly being treated like criminals when they are defending land from resource extraction.