Kudos to the folks at PR Watch for tracking down this bit of info. It appears that the editors of The Australian (about whom we opined critically just a couple of days ago) have supplemented their own badly grounded science with the meanderings of an industry flak intent upon muddying the waters on the issue of climate change. Bad journalism, badย science.
Corporate pledges to fight deforestation by turning degraded pasture into cropland seen boosting demand for harmful chemical inputs.
As the New York-based firm was preparing to work on the climate summit, it was also pushing for Brazilian oil and gas distributor Vibra Energia to help power it.
Trade groups lobbied ministers to promote a source of energy linked to massive environmental harms at the U.N. climate conference.
Agribusiness companies generate huge quantities of greenhouse gas pollution โ and PR companies help them obscure it.
