Corporate Promotion of Carbon Capture and Storage Contradicts Science, Study Finds

A new InfluenceMap report reveals that over 80 percent of corporate policy engagement on carbon capture and storage contradicts the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s science-based policy guidance, leading to misguided ideas behind CCS use.

At COP28, the Road to Climate Action Is Paved with Big Oil Loophole Language

The European Union has clearly laid out its position: Climate neutrality, the Council of the EU stated last month, will require “a global phase-out of unabated fossil fuels and a peak in their consumption in this decade.” Then, in its second letter to parties, the president of COP28, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, underscored the need […]

This Hopeless COP Is the Most Hopeful in Years

Faith in UN climate conferences is at a new low. If we wanted a final straw, the appalling and yet somehow unsurprising revelation that the United Arab Emirates had planned to use its position as host of the latest annual gathering, known as COP28, as a platform for making new oil deals should suffice.  It […]

‘We Need to Address the Issues of Burnout, Anxiety, and Sustaining the Movement’

Since starting a solitary strike against climate inaction in Kampala in January, 2019, aged 22, Uganda’s Vanessa Nakate has emerged as one of the world’s most celebrated youth climate justice activists. Now a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, she will be attending the COP28 U.N. climate talks, which open in the United Arab Emirates today, to demand […]

Fossil Fuel Friendly Daily Mail Firm Handed £500k Government Contract to Run UK COP28 Events

The UK’s events at this year’s COP28 summit will be hosted by a Daily Mail events firm that specialises in organising exhibitions for the oil and gas industry, DeSmog can reveal.  Government records show that dmg events, which is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), will be paid £545,000 for “commissioning and […]

Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28

Major meat companies and industry lobby groups are planning a large presence at COP28, equipped with a communications plan to get a pro-meat message heard by policymakers throughout the summit, DeSmog can reveal. Documents seen by DeSmog and the Guardian show that the meat industry is poised to “tell its story and tell it well” […]

Why Saudi Arabia Wins Top Prize in the Bad Sport Awards 2023

Imagine a World Cup Final, one team brazenly fouls in their own penalty box, but no penalty is given. The referee waves play on. It happens repeatedly and the offending team goes on to win. Interviewed after the match, the most guilty player says, “So what, I fouled, I’d do the same thing again, I […]

Venture Fund Set to ‘Take Control’ of Telegraph Has Fossil Fuel Investments

The investment fund that has reportedly reached an agreement to buy the Telegraph Media Group has stakes in several oil and gas companies, DeSmog can report.  U.S.-based RedBird Capital has entered into a joint venture to take control of The Telegraph alongside International Media Investments (IMI) of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).  […]

Revealed: Scale of The Telegraph’s Climate Change ‘Propaganda’

Telegraph columnists routinely questioned climate science and criticised green reforms as a major backlash against net zero policies raged in the UK, DeSmog can reveal. A new analysis by this website reviewed over 2,000 Telegraph opinion pieces and editorials published online over a six month period, ending in 16 October. Of the 171 opinion pieces […]

Badvertising: How Promoting Pollution Prevents Climate Action

On Monday, three apparently unconnected things happened. First, news broke that London Mayor Sadiq Khan had refused planning consent for the MSG Sphere in Stratford. This 100-metre illuminated globe would have towered over nearby buildings like a baleful, modern-day Eye of Sauron, with 190,000 square feet of LED surface continually beaming corporate marketing messages across […]