Projects

Unravelling the Carbon Web’ is a project within PLATFORM’s long term initiative, 90% CRUDE. Like all PLATFORM’s work it is driven by a commitment to social and ecological justice, and is carried out in an interdisciplinary manner, combining the skills of research and analysis, creative writing and performance, listening and dialogue. For more information about the wide range of other work by PLATFORM please visit the PLATFORM website.

The project works to reduce the environmental and social impacts of oil corporations, to help citizens gain a say in decisions that affect them, and to support the transition to a more sustainable energy economy.

Its aim is that those affected by oil and gas corporations’ operations, and civil society as a whole, is democratically empowered to influence, and ultimately transform, those corporations.

Its approach centres on the ‘Carbon Web’, the complex network of institutions that make up the oil and gas industry, and the role each institution may play in activities that adversely effect people and the environment. The ‘Unravelling the Carbon Web’project began in March 2000, although its roots lie in the Crude Operators conference - a gathering to understand and challenge the oil industry - organised by PLATFORM and Corporate Watch in May 1997.