Record sums were invested last year in coal power – the most carbon intensive form of energy on the planet – by the World Bank, despite international commitments to slash the carbon emissions blamed for climate change. The World Bank said this week that a total of US$3.4bn ย – or a quarter of all funding for energy projects – was spent in the year to June 2010 helping to build new coal-fired power stations. Over the same period the bank also spent $1bn ย on looking and drilling for oil and gas.
The pro-AI and fossil fuel group tells DeSmog that itโs great to see its ideas โget taken up by government.โ
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.
