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The Oil Industry and Climate Change
A Greenpeace briefing, August 1998

Fueling Global Warming: Federal Subsidies to Oil in the United States
The US government is massively subsidizing one of the major causes of climate change, the burning of oil, according to a new report released by Greenpeace International.

The Subsidy Scandal - The European clash between environmental rhetoric and public spending
Close to $US15 billion of taxpayers' money has been used every year since 1990 to prop up the fossil fuel and nuclear industries in subsidies from the EU and Western European governments.

Oiling The Machine - Fossil Fuel Dollars Funneled into the U.S. Political Process
Oil, coal, gas and auto industry interests have funnelled substantial funds into U.S. federal elections since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

Countering The Sceptics
The Climate Sceptics are a handful of scientists, many directly subsidised by the fossil fuel lobby and promoting what numerous mainstream scientists regard as blatant misinformation on climate science, thereby contesting the urgent need to tackle the problem of global warming.

SmILE - Showing Car Companies How it's Done
Greenpeace is committed to the eventual phase out of fossil fuel, both in energy use and in transportation, Traffic consumes 60% of world-wide oil production and must be addressed if we are to halt climate change,