The Eugene city council has broken off negotiations with a major gas utility that has resisted greenhouse gas reduction targets, and has instead opted to go the route of banning new gas hookups.

Since 1985, streams and rivers have repeatedly suffered “acute” levels of toxic chemicals in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, despite U.S. efforts to paint a rosy environmental image abroad.

The ‘sustainability principles’ outlined in the document could in fact contribute to increased carbon emissions in the atmosphere, a policy analyst has claimed.

The countries involved produce only a small proportion of global oil and gas supply, but see the world-first diplomatic effort as a starting point.

CAR26 director Lois Perry was at a fringe event outside the official summit and organisers say she “left of her own accord”.

The major U.S. car producer has a history of supporting climate science denial and lobbying for weaker climate policies.

Campaigners said the news demonstrated a “classic case of the revolving door” between “big polluters” and governments.

Experts said his “prehistoric arguments” in the Spectator prove that Net Zero Watch is really “a front for tired old climate change denial”. 

Denmark and South Africa were the only exceptions among the 35 country pavilions at the UN climate summit, and the latter’s stall is sponsored by coal companies.

The Giudizio Universale lawsuit heads to court in December. It is one of many climate cases initiated by civil society in more than 40 countries around the world.