Advertising Industry Has Over a Thousand Contracts With Polluting Industries: Report
Several of the world’s largest ad and PR holding companies, including WPP, Omnicom, and IPG, have had a combined 1,010 contracts with fossil fuel companies in 2023 and 2024, according to the latest data released by the campaign group Clean Creatives. The report comes amid growing pressure for agencies to sever their connections with fossil […]
Danielle Smith Joins American Culture War Instigator Chris Rufo at Alberta Event
Climate change mitigation is anti-Alberta, “cultural Marxism” is on the rise, and “extreme” LGBT activists are taking over schools, according to speakers at the recent Canada Strong and Free Network conference, attended by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and American culture war provocateur Christopher Rufo. The Canada Strong and Free Conference, formerly known as the Manning […]
Anti-Vax Group Vows to ‘Fight’ Net Zero at Event Attended by Prominent Right-wing Figures
Together, a group which last year launched a campaign to scrap the UK’s net zero emissions targets, says it is “by and for the public”. But at an event behind closed doors on Friday (20 September), its founder Alan Miller told a different story. A promotional reel highlighting its achievements in the past year focused […]
Energy Policy Shouldn’t be in Hands of Politicians, British Gas Boss Tells Labour Minister
LIVERPOOL – The CEO of Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, told a Labour Conference event today that responsibility for energy and climate policy should be stripped from politicians. Speaking on a panel with Labour’s Energy and Net Zero Minister Michael Shanks, Centrica boss Chris O’Shea said that politicians were only concerned with short-term […]
Big Ag’s Road to Brazil
This week, as business and government leaders, investors and campaigners gather for New York Climate Week, DeSmog is relaunching its big agriculture series, which will scrutinise the power of food and farming companies. Agriculture used to play second fiddle to energy when it came to global warming, considered as a nice-to-have. But as global heating […]
Mapped: Reform UK’s Anti-Green Network
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK describes itself as a people’s movement taking on the British establishment. The anti-immigration party, which won five seats in July’s general election and is holding its annual conference this week in Birmingham, attacks climate action as a costly imposition by “elites” on ordinary people. But a DeSmog analysis reveals that Reform […]
From UK to Norway, Drillers Legally Dump Tonnes of Toxic, Radioactive Waste Into the North Sea
This story was produced in partnership with the investigative journalism platform Follow The Money. It was a stormy grey day in 1987 when a young environmental scientist found himself wearing a survival suit with a set of homemade sampling contraptions trailing in the ocean on an inflatable boat in the Baltic Sea. He was hunting […]
New Anti-Greenwashing Rules Are ‘Silencing’ Industry, Oil Advocates Say
Despite promises of a “robust conversation” from the moderator, a panel discussion titled “Examining the Impact of Bill C-59” concluded that Canada’s efforts to clamp down on false advertising in the fossil fuel sector is part of a broad conspiracy to silence the energy industry. “Companies that are actually doing good sustainable things, clean green […]
Giorgia Meloni’s ‘Centre Right’ EU Block Dominated by Far Right Parties
Experts warn that collaboration with the far-right has “become the norm” in Europe, as new analysis reveals the extreme right foundations of Georgia Meloni’s EU power block. The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) – a grouping of political parties from across the EU – will oversee the Italian Prime Minister’s attempts to reshape the European […]
The ABCs of AI and Environmental Misinformation
DeSmog talks with AI researchers about the risks of widespread fake climate content and how to combat it.