Governments Must Tackle Climate Disinformation, Experts Urge
Governments around the world must take “immediate and decisive action” to tackle climate disinformation, scientists and campaign groups have urged as talks at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan enter their fourth day. A coalition of 55 climate information integrity groups and 42 leading climate scientists and experts have signed an open letter urging […]
‘Give Trees a Hand’ — Ad Agencies Line Up to Sell Sketchy Climate Solutions
The video opens on an anonymous industrial site, where a woman stands under a clear blue sky. She’s wearing a white hard hat and a grey utility shirt with the name “Regina” stitched above the breast pocket. Smiling into the camera, she tells viewers that “the world needs ways to reduce carbon emissions.” Speakers from […]
Havas Warns of Reputational Risks Over Fossil Fuel Clients Following Shell Backlash
Paris-based advertising giant Havas has warned investors of the reputational risks associated with its work for fossil fuel companies in the latest fall-out from its decision to work with UK oil major Shell. Havas, whose CEO Yannick Bolloré had repeatedly voiced concern over the climate crisis, faced criticism from climate advocates last September when news […]
Trump EPA Pick Lee Zeldin Backed by Texas Fracking Billionaire Tim Dunn
The former Republican congressperson selected by Donald Trump to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, has the backing of a religious-right fracking billionaire from Texas. Zeldin is currently a chair at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a conservative think tank co-founded by Tim Dunn, founder of the fracking company CrownQuest, one of […]
Business Lobby Reached Record High at UN Biodiversity Talks
This investigation has been translated into Spanish. You can read it on DeSmog here Representatives of business and industry groups more than doubled at the UN’s latest biodiversity summit, DeSmog has found, sparking fears over the growing influence of powerful private sector bodies. Despite some important breakthroughs, talks at this year’s COP16 summit in Cali, Colombia […]
Canada’s Fossil Fuel Export Emissions Set New Record in 2023
Greenhouse gas emissions from Canadian fossil fuel exports ballooned to record levels in 2023, according to data uncovered by Ecojustice and Environmental Defence. Exported emissions are created when the fossil fuels that Canada produces and exports are burned in other countries. Between 2012 and 2023, export emissions increased by 58 percent, and have now exceeded […]
Q&A: How Refugees Are Regaining a Sense of Agency as Climate Impacts Bite
In an interview for the Climate Consciousness Summit 2024, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog, Kosha Joubert, Pocket Project CEO, spoke with Immad Ahmed, founder of the Humanitarian Assistance Program about his work to support refugees and displaced people hit by the climate crisis. Ahmed has been working with internally displaced people in Bangladesh […]
Fossil Fuel Giants Paying Thousands to Sponsor COP29 Events
Oil and gas giants are paying tens of thousands of dollars in order to sponsor events at this year’s flagship climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan. This year’s conference began on Monday (11 November). Over the course of the 11-day summit, known as COP29, negotiators and leaders across the globe will put in place commitments to […]
COP Won’t Survive for Long Unless We Tackle Climate Corruption
The world’s leading climate diplomats, scientists and policy experts convene in Baku, Azerbaijan, this week to begin the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29). Framed as the “finance COP”, this year’s summit will be defined by negotiations around the amount of public money dedicated to tackling climate change. Less remarked on, but by no […]
Revealed: Big Oil Told 70 Years Ago That Fossil Fuel Emissions Could Impact ‘Civilization’
April 6, 1955, was a perfect spring day in Los Angeles. Downtown, the skies were unusually smog-free as Lauren B. Hitchcock, president of the Air Pollution Foundation, made his way up the marble steps of the city’s exclusive California Club for a meeting with some of the West Coast’s most powerful businessmen. Waiting inside the […]