India, Oct. 29 -- A decade after the Paris Agreement, a new analysis by Oil Change International (OCI) on October 29, 2025, revealed that just four Global North countries - the United States (US), Canada, Australia, and Norway - are overwhelmingly responsible for derailing global efforts to phase out fossil fuels.

Together, they expanded oil and gas production by nearly 40 per cent between 2015 and 2024, even as the rest of the world cut output by 2 per cent.

The Planet Wreckers: Global North Countries Fueling the Fire Since the Paris Agreement report finds that the US alone accounted for more than 90 per cent of the net global increase in oil and gas extraction over the last decade - adding nearly 11 million barrels of oil equivalent p...