Welcome
photo:George Osodi
Plan B is a campaign for an end to UK development aid for the oil industry.
We work with environment and development NGOs to push for a phase out of the international development aid currently enjoyed by oil companies.
Aid that accelerates climate change doesn't help any of us.
Decentralised renewable energy can support energy producing communities while the oil industry often leaves poverty, conflict and pollution in its wake.
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The Plan B Campaign
Please support our efforts - you can help persuade your MP to support a move from fossil fuel dependence to a low-carbon, renewable energy future
Plan B works in partnership with People and Planet, Friends of the Earth, Platform and the Bretton Woods Project.
We lobby the Department for International Development (DFID) to stop using development aid to fund oil and gas companies, and instead support decentralised renewable energy supplies as part of a climate-aware energy strategy.
To be effective in alleviating poverty and tackling climate change, the feather bed of subsidies for fossil fuels must now be shifted toward clean, decentralised, renewable energy. This will both improve and save millions of lives in the majority world.
| Why Plan B |
"Stop subsidizing the industries that are cooking the planet". Since 2000, taxpayers have spent US$60 billion subsidising the oil industry. End Oil Aid 82% of aid for oil in low income countries is for export to high-income countries. see Platform report: Pumping Poverty A recent European Parliament resolution calls for "the discontinuation of public support, via export credit agencies and public investment banks, for fossil fuel projects" more from Bretton Woods Project |
UK International Aid for oil:
- makes climate change worse, tying poorer countries into decades of dependence on fossil fuels,
- acts as welfare for the world's wealthiest corporations while undermining poor people's lives,
- delays the transition to a low carbon economy keeps renewable energy in the shade,
- ignores the limits to oil: we can burn only 25% of global oil before catastrophic climate change.
- ties us into increasingly insecure oil supplies as we approach the peak production of oil.
Take Action
You can help the shift to a low-carbon, renewable energy future by adding your energy to the campaign.
Does your MP support a move on from fossil fuel dependence?
Urge them to show their support for a simple reform with the potential to turn the tides against business as usual.
Early Day Motion 1200: DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT'S STRATEGY ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY
Sponsored by Michael Meacher
Last year Plan B secured 138 signatures on Early Day Motion 407 called for an end to oil aid.
This year we're urging Department for International Development to publish a strategy on how energy is supplied in the light of climate change.
Current developments in international aid for energy are tied into fossil fuels, and effectively commit developing countries to a dangerous high-carbon development path.
Plan B is working to build support for a transition to a low carbon future.
We are also using the clear expression of political support from last year's Early Day Motion to urge for an International Development Select Committee investigation into DFID support for the oil industry.
Check here for a list of MPs that support the Plan B motion.
That this House notes that the Department for International Development (DFID) provides both financial and political support for oil companies in developing countries through multilateral organisations; further notes that this support is inconsistent with its mandate to alleviate poverty and help mitigate the effects of climate change in those countries, and that increasing access to low carbon energy is critical to achieving the Millennium Development Goals; and calls on DFID to produce a strategy on energy and climate change which contributes to overall reductions in carbon dioxide emissions by phasing out support for oil and gas projects, massively increasing support for renewable, decentralised energy supplies, and reporting regularly to Parliament on the impact of its energy and climate change strategy on carbon dioxide emissions and poverty alleviation as part of its duties under the International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Act 2006.
Beyond Oil
international films: climate change and fossil fuel futures
Plan B and Undercurrents screen a package of international films about oil, climate change and the transition to a low carbon future. 
If you're interested in learning more about climate change, and the social impact of our oil, contact Plan B for information on screenings near you.
Our dependence on oil looks more of a liability with every report of climate change or conflict in oil producing states. The global transport, electricity, plastics, agriculture, concrete and pharmaceuticals industries were built on cheap, secure supplies of oil. Do climate change and peak oil signal the beginning of the end of the oil age? How best can we adapt to a low carbon future? Beyond Oil lifts the lid on our oil dependence and invites you to peer into the bottom of the barrel.
The films explore the depths to which companies like Shell, Esso and BP go for our oil. From Cuba to Venezuela, Nigeria to Ireland, some of the world's wealthiest corporations keep us supplied with our fix of oil from low income countries, but the trade is clearly neither fair or sustainable.
The Beyond Oil screenings show the practical, ethical and social limits to fossil fuels, tell real stories from people fighting to survive the worst excesses of big oil corporations, and draw inspiration from those already living beyond oil.
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