Revealed: Industry-led West Africa Fishery Protection Measures Marred By ‘Massive Conflicts of Interest’

This investigation has been translated into French. You can read it on DeSmog here Flagship initiatives to ensure “responsible sourcing” for the global aquafeed industry in West Africa are being undermined by systemic conflicts of interest, endangering efforts to safeguard critical fish stocks, DeSmog can reveal. The findings raise concerns at a time of growing […]

Canada Oil Companies Delete Carbon Capture Mentions on Websites Before New Regulations Kick in

Canadian oil companies, fossil fuel lobby groups, and third-party advertisers are scrubbing their websites of content related to carbon capture and storage in the wake of new legal greenwashing guidelines.

Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage Spreads Climate Denial with Conspiracy Groups in Clacton-on-Sea

Nigel Farage has attacked “the net zero agenda” at a campaign event with two climate science denial groups in Clacton-on-Sea, where he is standing for parliament in tomorrow’s (4 July) general election.  The Reform UK leader made the comments at a meeting organised by the Together Declaration, an anti-Covid vaccine group which campaigns against the […]

Revealed: Hundreds of Ad Campaigns by Oil and Gas Companies Have Appeared on London Public Transport Since Mayor’s Carbon Zero Pledge 

London’s public transport network has hosted more than 240 advertising campaigns by oil and gas companies including Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil since Mayor Sadiq Khan set his “zero carbon city” goal in 2018, DeSmog can reveal. The findings come after United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a worldwide fossil fuel advertising ban, arguing that […]

Tories Spend Tens of Thousands on Ads Spreading Bogus Driving Tax Claims

The Conservative Party has reached millions of people with digital adverts that falsely claim Labour would impose new taxes on drivers.  In recent days the Tories have launched hundreds of new online adverts falsely claiming that Labour would introduce a nationwide ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) that would charge people for using highly-polluting vehicles.  Labour’s London […]

Exxon’s Imperial Deletes CEO Claim That CCS Is ‘Critical’ to Paris Climate Goals

Exxon’s Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil has deleted from its website a document in which its CEO and chairman Brad Corson claims to investors that carbon capture and storage is “critical” to achieving the “climate goals outlined in the Paris Agreement.”  That 2021 investors update is one of at least 39 documents referencing the technology, also […]

Advertising’s Top Prizes for ‘Sustainability’ Go to Agencies With Polluting Clients

Advertising agencies working with some of the world’s biggest polluters have been given sustainability honours at the prestigious Cannes Lions awards — despite their track records of working with major oil and gas companies and other polluting clients. Agencies affiliated with the holding groups WPP and Publicis Groupe, along with the PR company Edelman, received […]

The Five Top Misleading Climate Claims of the 2024 UK Election Campaign

Climate change has been strikingly absent from the UK general election campaign. There has been a focus on the cost of living crisis – one driven by rising oil and gas prices – but there has been little substantial debate about how the UK will divest from fossil fuels. Instead, certain parties and politicians have […]

The Missing Inner Dimension of System Change 

In 1972, the Club of Rome published the world’s first advanced computer modelling of projected climate impacts. The Limits to Growth would become an iconic critique of unbridled economic growth on a finite planet, and a foundation for the  global sustainability movement. Yet 50 years later, its sequel — Earth for All — reckons with […]

A ‘Carbon Sucking’ Mural? Campaigns for Big Oil? Global Ad Agency Dentsu Does Both.

The Euston Road is one of London’s most polluted neighbourhoods. But on a street corner, advertising company Dentsu offered a solution designed to literally clear the air.   Unveiled in partnership with environmental charity Global Action Plan, for Clean Air Day on June 20, the short-lived mural depicted a pink and purple woman catching fumes in […]