The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which is supposed to offset greenhouse gases emitted in the developed world by selling carbon credits from elsewhere, has been contaminated by gross incompetence, rule-breaking and possible fraud by companies in the developing world, according to UN paperwork, an unpublished expert report and alarming feedback from projects on the ground.ย
Oil companies are once again asking the high court to intervene in climate deception lawsuits across the U.S. โ part of an all-hands-on-deck effort by Big Oil and the Trump administration to shut the cases down.
The educational materials distort how fossil fuel pollution has caused the climate emergency, new report finds.
U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans.
By tying the projectโs fate to Indigenous โequity,โ Carney saddles groups with the blame, and potentially the bill, if they move to stop a pipeline they oppose.
