May 24, 2024

ANEEJ Applauds House of Representatives for Blocking Multinational Oil Companies’ Divestment Plans Due to Compliance Issues

BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. May 24, 2024… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has commended the Federal House of Representatives for its decisive intervention in the planned divestment of Shell and other multinational oil companies from onshore operations in the Niger Delta Region. On Wednesday, May 22, 2024, the House directed the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulation Commission (NUPRC) […]

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May 21, 2024

Climate Action: ANEEJ welcomes Ajuri Ngelale’s appointment, urges MNOCs compliance

WARRI, NIGERIA. May 21, 2024… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a leading organization dedicated to eradicating poverty and promoting environmental justice in Africa, and Convener of the Peoples Annual General Meeting (AGM), a pan-Nigeria  Civil Society coalition of over 40 Civil Society Organisations working on issues of Climate Change has welcomed the appointment of Chief Ajuri […]

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February 19, 2024

OUTCOME STATEMENT FROM THE NIGER DELTA CSOs MEETING CONVENED BY ANEEJ

On Tuesday February 13, 2024, The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) convened a meeting in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria to reflect on Ken Saro Wiwa’s struggles for environmental justice in the Niger Delta and to also discuss emerging issues that have implication for the environment in the region. The meeting had in attendance 47 participants drawn from […]

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February 13, 2024

PFZW divests all but seven oil and gas companies

The Dutch €238bn pension fund for the social care sector has sold all but seven of its 94 remaining oil and gas equity and credit holdings in the third stage of a major pivot of its portfolio that has seen it divest from energy majors including BP, Exxon Shell and Total. The holdings were valued at €2.8bn. The fund will […]

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November 15, 2023

COP28: ANEEJ Backs World Council of Churches on phase out of fossil fuel, scale up of renewables

ABUJA, NIGERIA. November 15, 2023… The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has thrown its weight behind the World Council of Churches’ call for urgent phase out of fossil fuel extraction which account for 75% of greenhouse gas emissions and the urgent need to scale up renewable energy if the goal of Paris Climate Agreement will be realized. […]

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September 7, 2023

Peoples AGM Rejects African Leaders’ Climate Declaration, Calls for Grassroots-Centered

Nairobi, Kenya. September 7, 2023 — The Peoples Annual General Meeting (Peoples AGM), a coalition of over 60 Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria, dedicated to Climate and Environmental Justice, has issued a strong response to the African Leaders’ Nairobi Declaration on Climate Change and Call to Action, following the recent African Summit. The Nairobi Declaration which was aimed at uniting […]

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September 5, 2023

Group urges African Leaders to reject Europe’s crave for new oil and gas in Africa

    *Wants IFIs to stop financing fossil fuel projects NAIROBI, KENYA. September 5, 2023… Over fifty-seven Civil Society Organisations working under the aegis of the Peoples Annual General Meeting (Peoples AGM) in Nigeria working on Climate and Environmental Justice issues, have called on African Governments to reject the crave for new oil and gas in Africa to meet the gas […]

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June 27, 2023

LETTER TO ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

Your September 2021 joint statement with Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch included the prophetic passage: “We stand before a harsh justice: biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and climate change are the inevitable consequences of our actions, since we have greedily consumed more of the earth’s resources than the planet can endure. But we also face a profound injustice: the people bearing […]

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May 30, 2023

Cut Emissions, Stop relying on false solutions, CSOs Urges Chevron

…..Wants investors to vote against the Directors at tomorrow’s AGM. BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. May 30, 2023… The Peoples AGM, a Pan-Nigeria Civil Society platform campaigning for the enforcement of Paris Climate Agreement has urged Chevron, an oil company operating in Nigeria to cut emissions at source and stop relying on false solutions. Convener of the Peoples AGM, the Rev. David […]

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May 25, 2023

PEOPLES AGM PLATFORM SLAMS TOTAL ENERGIES, OTHERS FOR PRIORITIZING OIL AND GAS INVESTMENTS THAT IS FUELING CLIMATE CRISIS

Wants shareholders to reverse trend at 2023 AGM. BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. May 25, 2023…. The peoples AGM platform has criticized Total Energies, Eni, and Equinor for their role in prioritizing oil and gas investments that is fueling the climate crisis despite the urgent need to transit to clean, renewable energy, calling on investors and shareholders at Total Energies AGM scheduled […]

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