Back in May, I travelled to Stavanger, Norway, to confront oil giant Equinor at their own AGM. This included CEO Anders Odepal, and the Norwegian government: the company’s majority shareholders.

If you missed it, you can watch the video here: twitter, instagram

Rich countries like the UK and Norway need to take their fair share of responsibility for the climate crisis and use their wealth to support a fair and fast transition to renewables. Instead, they’re expanding fossil fuels across the world, including at home in Scotland where the UK’s biggest undeveloped oil field, Rosebank, is up for approval.

If Rosebank’s oil and gas is burned, it will create more CO2 than 28 entire countries produce in a year. That’s more than 700 million people. Meanwhile, cataclysmic extreme weather has been raging across the globe all summer with the United Nations now warning that the earth’s systems are in “uncharted territory”. If we don’t get off fossil fuels as soon as we can, this will get much worse than we can even imagine.

Yet since May, Equinor has shown no signs of slowing down their plans to push for more oil, not only in the UK, but also in Brazil, Canada and Argentina – at a time when we know we can’t have any more new oil and gas. The company made record profits of £62 billion in the past year from their dirty business model whilst 7 million households in the UK were pushed into fuel poverty by rising energy costs. But people from across the world are standing up.

This was just one moment in a highly-collaborative, escalating campaign to #StopRosebank by means of a huge coalition of hundreds of groups across the UK and Norway, representing many many thousands of individuals. If you watched the video from Equinor’s AGM earlier this year and it gave you hope, please know that this fight is for all of us, including you. The long-lasting, gritty hope that gives us strength for action isn’t just given to us by another, but instead must be cultivated together through collective action.

Luckily, we’re building that collective action, but your help is needed. Sign up for the next #StopRosebank welcome call on Wednesday 24th August at 6pm UK time - link to register.

Don’t just watch us, join us.