For anyone who is not clear why it would be in the interests of the energy
industry to deny the accuracy of climate change science – or to delay any action to reduce the use of fossil fuels – this might be a clue. Collecting profits at the rate ofย $10 billion a quarter, Exxonย executives clearly believe they will be able to afford to make whatever adaptations are necessary to live comfortably – however much he climate mightย change.
The programme is โyet another bung to industrial productionโ, experts say.
Critics say new LNG ventures in British Columbia saddle Indigenous communities with debt, opaque ownership structures, and financial risk that could leave them owing billions.
Campaigners have highlighted the irony of the Tory peer warning about threats to free speech at a think tank bankrolled by a repressive regime.
Corporate pledges to fight deforestation by turning degraded pasture into cropland seen boosting demand for harmful chemical inputs.
