Canada: Stop bankrolling fossil fuels!

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Above image: Delegates at the 2023 Annual General Meeting of Amnesty Canada in Ottawa. Photo by Don Wright/Amnesty International.

Calling on Canada to double down on climate justice.

Fires, scorching temperatures, extreme weather, floods, and drought. We’re living a global human rights emergency of unprecedented proportions because of climate change, ecosystem damage, and political inaction on the part of governments like Canada.

Millions of lives are at risk.

The science is indisputable. Burning fossil fuels accounts for more than 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and is the primary cause of climate change. We urgently need to phase out fossil fuels to have a chance of keeping global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees C to prevent the worst human rights harms.

The United Nations and international courts now recognize the legal duty to phase out fossil fuels.

Yet Canada continues to approve the expansion of fossil fuels. In fact, the fossil fuel industry has been richly subsidized by Canadian taxpayers in the form of direct financial supports, offset credits, and subsidies.

And shockingly, we pay twice: once with these financial subsidies and once again with our health and well-being. Floods, fires, drought, crop failures and the criminalization of land defenders are the price we pay for continuing to line the pockets of oil and gas industry shareholders while our communities are choked with wildfire smoke or people lose their homes to floods and fires.

But there is still time to build a future in Canada that is not reliant on fossil fuels. 

There must be no more missed opportunities. Canada bears significant responsibility for climate change and must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. At home, Canada must show leadership by urgently and equitably phasing out fossil fuels. No new projects. No expansions. Instead, Canada must invest in renewable energy, training for oil and gas workers transitioning out of the sector, and a new renewable energy infrastructure that benefits all Canadians.

Take action now and send a message to Canada’s Prime Minister: Stop financing fossil fuels!

Tell Canada to Stop Bankrolling Fossil Fuels!

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Amnesty International’s report “Extraction Extinction: Why the Lifecycle of Fossil Fuels Threatens Life, Nature, and Human Rights” (Index: POL 30/0438/2025) was published during COP30 on 12 November. The report analyses the human rights harms experienced by fenceline communities from fossil fuel production in biologically diverse areas, that often coincide with the traditional lands of Indigenous Peoples. It builds on Amnesty International’s long-standing work in Colombia, Ecuador and Nigeria, and introduces new case studies from Brazil, Canada and Senegal.

Amnesty International’s new briefing for COP30, Essential Need to Know for Human Rights, outlines Amnesty International’s full set of recommendations to the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

COP30: People, Not Profits and Power, must be at the heart of negotiations at UN Climate Summit calls on state parties to protect and address activists’ demands to ramp up climate action for a full, fast, fair, and funded fossil fuel phase-out and just transition to sustainable energy for all, in all sectors of society.