2023-12-09 18:25
Within hours of Canada’s federal government announcing key details during COP28 about its plans to cap greenhouse gas emissions within the oil and gas sector, the country’s top… Read More
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2023-12-09 10:15
There’s only a few days to go before Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the first oil executive to preside over UN climate negotiations, brings down his gavel in Dubai.
While COP28 dele… Read More
2023-12-09 04:00
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES —
Lobbyists from industrial agriculture companies and trade groups have turned out in record numbers at COP28, which this year has a strong focus on tac… Read More
2023-12-09 00:32
Republican lawmakers with a presence at the international climate summit in Dubai — known as COP28 — have received over $11 million in fossil fuel donations, DeSmog… Read More
2023-12-08 11:06
Canada is the world’s second leading source of public funding for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, according to a new report, even though many experts say CCS is a greenwa… Read More
2023-12-08 08:00
Jojo Mehta co-founded Stop Ecocide in 2017, alongside legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins, to support the recognition and establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal… Read More
2023-12-05 21:20
As world leaders meet in Dubai for the COP28 climate negotiations, federal and provincial governments in Canada are preparing to give an estimated $15.3 billion in new subsidies to oil and… Read More
2023-12-05 10:01
Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon, celebrates the potential of carbon capture to dramatically reduce global emissions. According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is in… Read More
2023-12-04 13:54
DUBAI — Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi is attending the COP28 climate summit as a guest of the United Arab Emirates, DeSmog can reveal – prompting questions about his role as the… Read More
2023-12-01 18:42
As this year’s climate summit gets underway in Dubai, powerful food and farming companies are well positioned to ensure their interests are protected. They will use their connections… Read More
2023-12-01 05:01
The vast majority of corporate advocacy promoting carbon capture and storage is misaligned with climate science, new research shows.
According to an analysis released today by Infl… Read More
2023-11-30 11:00
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… Read More
2023-11-30 10:58
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 posit… Read More
2023-11-30 06:00
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 c… Read More
2023-11-29 16:47
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… Read More
2023-11-29 11:00
Major meat companies and industry lobby groups are planning a large presence at COP28 in a few days time, equipped with a communications plan to get a pro-meat message heard by policymakers… Read More
2023-11-29 06:01
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… Read More
2023-11-24 12:24
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 Cap… Read More
2023-11-23 08:14
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… Read More
2023-11-23 06:01
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 illu… Read More
2023-11-22 19:55
The annual United Nations climate negotiations are just a week away. Known as COP28 — since it’s the 28th year of the “conference of the parties” to the United Natio… Read More
2023-11-22 15:23
A new report warns that oil and gas production in the United States is expected to rise under Biden’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), even as the legislation… Read More
2023-11-22 14:33
The UK advertising watchdog has banned two adverts for Toyota SUVs, ruling that images of cars racing over plains and through rivers condoned a style of off-road driving that “disrega… Read More
2023-11-17 14:40
Nigel Farage’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal.
Reform UK, formerly the Brexit Party… Read More
2023-11-17 11:00
With the start of the 28th annual United Nations climate summit, COP28, just two weeks away, a battle is brewing over the role of fossil fuels as nations try to stem the tide of climate cha… Read More
2023-11-17 08:23
State-owned oil and gas fields across the United Arab Emirates have flared almost constantly despite a long-standing policy to eliminate “routine” flaring in their operations, D… Read More
2023-11-16 14:00
There are a lot of major oil companies that tend to fill headlines when talking about climate change – BP, Shell, Chevron – any of the ‘big six’ public oil companies… Read More
2023-11-16 13:59
Global advertising firm McCann is putting itself forward to continue working for the Saudi fossil fuel giant Aramco, DeSmog understands.
The US-based McCann currently works for Aramco ac… Read More
2023-11-16 11:00
Every summer, Herbert Dorfmann – one of Italy’s representatives in the European Parliament – joins politicians from across the alpine region to hike with farming groups. T… Read More
2023-11-16 05:02
Companies’ climate commitments are largely misaligned with their lobbying activities, with more than half of the world’s largest corporations at risk of “net zero greenwas… Read More
2023-11-15 16:05
Britain is facing calls to impose import controls on China after an investigation revealed that supermarkets are sourcing seafood from companies exploiting forced labour by minority Uyghurs… Read More
2023-11-15 16:03
Players in the carbon dioxide pipeline industry canceled major pipeline projects in recent weeks, marking an inauspicious start to President Biden’s ambitious plans to develop carbon… Read More
2023-11-10 21:49
This article was originally published by Gas Outlook.
The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixab… Read More
2023-11-10 19:30
A former chief scientist for the oil and gas producer BP claims that journalists specializing in climate change reporting are spreading false claims about extreme weather — an accusat… Read More
2023-11-08 01:20
In the 1970s, Dr. Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. In a se… Read More
2023-11-07 14:07
The influential Conservative-linked Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has been pushing for further North Sea oil and gas drilling while several of its board members hold financial interests i… Read More
2023-11-06 11:00
Increased federal incentives for “carbon management” technologies are catalyzing a surge in proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the United States, from the Gul… Read More
2023-11-03 20:14
A well-known Canadian professor who doesn’t believe in global cooperation to prevent climate change described carbon capture and storage (CCS) as “stupid” in a recent disc… Read More
2023-11-03 14:45
Canadian climate science denier Jordan Peterson’s new right-wing project launched this week with claims that carbon emissions have “declined” and that the climate crisis i… Read More
2023-11-02 13:17
Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all global fossil fuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit.
The analysis shows tha… Read More
2023-11-01 21:20
A lawsuit filed by the city and county of Honolulu against nearly a dozen fossil fuel companies is moving towards trial in Hawaii after the Hawaii Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the comp… Read More
2023-10-31 15:00
The plastics and petrochemical industries’ latest purported solution to the plastic pollution crisis – chemical or “advanced” recycling – is essentially a publ… Read More
2023-10-30 17:33
One of the owners of GB News runs a hedge fund that has a major financial stake in more than 100 oil and gas firms, DeSmog can reveal.
This news comes after former prime minister B… Read More
2023-10-30 15:32
Communities around the world impacted by the plastics giant Formosa are launching a global hunger strike on October 31.
Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietna… Read More
2023-10-27 13:49
Michael Gove and Kemi Badenoch are due to speak at a major event next week alongside leading critics of climate action, DeSmog can report.
The three-day conference is being hosted in Lon… Read More
2023-10-27 11:54
Cabinet ministers reassured “smiling” fossil fuel executives and offered tips on how to communicate their polluting activities to the general public months before the controvers… Read More
2023-10-26 17:21
A Republican presidential candidate who has referred to climate change as a “hoax” is headlining the inaugural event for a new global organization created by conservative influe… Read More
2023-10-25 19:44
This article was originally published by The Lens and is republished with permission. The Lens is the New Orleans area’s first nonprofit, nonpartisan public-interest ne… Read More
2023-10-24 16:11
A Connecticut judge last week rejected Shell’s latest attempt to quash a climate lawsuit accusing the company of disregarding the severe climate change-driven risks to its fuel and ch… Read More
2023-10-24 12:09
The UK government’s weakening of its windfall tax on energy profits matched the demands of a high-level lobbying campaign by the oil and gas industry, new research reveals.
T… Read More
2023-10-20 22:14
On my lastest flight surveying fossil fuel industry sites in southwest Louisiana at the end of September, I photographed liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities, signs of drought, fir… Read More
2023-10-19 22:30
On October 19, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved a certificate for TC Energy’s GTN Xpress project, authorizing the expansion of fracked gas supply into the Paci… Read More
2023-10-19 15:59
Almost 100 universities that have pledged to shed ties to the fossil fuel industry still bank with financial institutions that have collectively provided $419 billion (£345 million) t… Read More
2023-10-18 17:25
Sugandha Srivastav is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer in Environmental Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK. This art… Read More
2023-10-18 17:12
At the conclusion of the 24th edition of the World Petroleum Congress, which was ambitiously titled Energy Transition: The Path to Net Zero, little progress appears to have been made on adv… Read More
2023-10-18 16:44
Striding out on alpine hikes, mingling at rooftop soirées and lending office space free of charge – these are just some of the ways Big Ag has sought to win over influential EU… Read More
2023-10-18 15:50
This article by Grist is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now.
On October 7, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping series of cl… Read More
2023-10-12 19:32
Over the past month and a half month, California lawmakers have enacted a pair of climate disclosure bills and endorsed a global call to end the fossil fuel era. In September, the state sue… Read More
2023-10-12 14:22
The main regulator of North Sea oil and gas doesn’t conduct physical inspections to ensure companies operating in the region are following the rules, DeSmog can reveal.
The revelat… Read More
2023-10-10 19:28
A campaign to deny Indigenous peoples a voice in Australia’s national Parliament is using tactics similar to an earlier conservative legal battle against First Nations communities in… Read More
2023-10-10 12:08
LIVERPOOL – A senior executive at the UK’s largest gas distributor has been accused of lobbying to slow down climate action after pushing for the use of hydrogen in heating at a… Read More
2023-10-06 20:15
This article by Energy News Network is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now.
Ohio’s adoption of gerrymandered voting district map… Read More
2023-10-05 18:24
This article by Grist is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering ClimateNow.
The insurance industry is in a state of flux because of climate change. This y… Read More
2023-10-05 16:59
Onward has had a meteoric rise. Since its inception in 2018, five of its founding advisory board members have taken roles in Conservative cabinets and its reports regularly feature&nbs&helli…Read More
2023-10-04 16:14
Agriculture lobby groups have been in constant contact with a small group of influential European politicians, holding an average of over two meetings a week while the bloc negotiated flags… Read More
2023-10-04 14:00
MANCHESTER – Conservative MPs gave resounding backing to the fossil fuel industry this week at a conference event paid for by U.S. oil giant Chevron.
The panel “Can fos… Read More
2023-10-04 09:06
Major fossil fuel firms have committed tens of millions in finance to UK universities since 2022, DeSmog can reveal.
Many of these commitments have been accepted by institutions th… Read More
2023-10-03 21:27
Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass liquid natural gas (LNG) export terminal is in the longest ever commissioning period for a plant of its kind. The 19-month duration has enabled the com… Read More
2023-10-02 17:45
MANCHESTER – The Conservative chair of a parliamentary group on hydrogen has defended the body’s receipt of £70,000 in funding from fossil fuel giants including Shell and… Read More
2023-09-29 12:14
A trade group for contested carbon capture with close ties to major oil and gas companies is sponsoring over a dozen events at the Conservative and Labour conferences over the next fortnigh… Read More
2023-09-29 04:05
Despite its name, ambition was largely lacking at mid-September’s Climate Ambition Summit at the United Nations in New York. Secretary General António Guterres asked nations to… Read More
2023-09-28 17:56
A report from the Tufton Street group Civitas on the supposed cost of net zero was featured in several major newspapers today despite serious data errors.
Authored by management co… Read More
2023-09-27 20:48
Investors in foreign development projects have “weaponized” a system of secretive tribunals, delaying progress on climate change and other environmental crises and having &ldquo&helli…Read More
2023-09-27 18:00
After experiencing massive wildfires and extreme heat waves this summer, six Portuguese children and youth appeared in the European Court of Human Rights Wednesday for a landmark lawsuit ag… Read More
2023-09-26 17:11
Hydrogen lobbyists are targeting the Labour Party after betting on the opposition winning next year’s general election, DeSmog can reveal.
Energy policy will be a major focus at th… Read More
2023-09-26 05:00
When Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber opens the 28th annual UN climate conference in Dubai in November, he will be juggling two roles – convincing the world of the United Arab Emirates’ le… Read More
2023-09-26 05:00
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil… Read More
2023-09-25 04:00
Italian oil major Eni knew of the climate impacts of fossil fuel extraction since 1970, according to a report by Greenpeace Italy and advocacy group ReCommon shared with DeSmog.
Th… Read More
2023-09-22 20:33
At a panel discussion held at the 24th World Petroleum Congress, Shaikh Nawaf Saud Al-Sabah, deputy chairman & CEO of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, estimated that more than a b… Read More
2023-09-22 11:54
A number of oil and gas firms have been announced as the hosts of stands and events at this year’s Conservative Party conference.
The conference, which is being held from 1 t… Read More
2023-09-21 23:02
It is a well established fact that increasing oil production leads to increased emissions, and that major reductions in oil production and consumption are necessary to avoid catastrophic cl… Read More
2023-09-21 22:19
“This is a historic moment,” Rob Bonta, California’s attorney general, told reporters on Sunday, as he stood alongside Gov. Gavin Newsom on the opening day of Climate Week… Read More
2023-09-21 15:45
Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai.
In the wake of blaz… Read More
2023-09-20 17:48
The government of Alberta announced a $7 million contribution to Canadian oil giant Cenovus to study the possibility of using small modular nuclear reactors (SMR) as part of the province&rs&helli…Read More
2023-09-20 16:17
Anti-net zero campaigners and climate science deniers are claiming credit for the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s weakening of UK green policies, as a senior official told DeSmog that ci… Read More
2023-09-20 13:22
Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott, a director of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has been reappointed by the g… Read More
2023-09-19 21:22
“Can I ask my Dutch friends to phase out cows?”
This was a rhetorical question asked by Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, the Saudi Arabian energy minister, during the opening of… Read More
2023-09-19 18:18
Global communications group Havas has won a bidding war for Shell’s media account, drawing criticism from campaigners who accuse advertising agencies of shielding oil majors from pres… Read More
2023-09-19 14:00
In rural West Virginia, largely hidden among steep hills, stands a $255 million facility designed to transform fracking waste into freshwater and food grade quality salts. Proponents hailed… Read More
2023-09-19 10:00
Global advertising and public relations company WPP has more contracts with fossil fuel clients than any of its rivals, despite the group’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2030… Read More
2023-09-18 21:34
Climate activists marched in New York City on Sunday to demand that world leaders curb new oil and gas drilling.
The March to End Fossil Fuels was the first major climate march sin… Read More
2023-09-16 15:48
The state of California has jumped into the ring in the fight to hold some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers accountable for their role in driving the worsening climate cri… Read More
2023-09-15 19:35
The leader of Cold Lake First Nations has revealed the initiator of a major carbon capture project in Northern Alberta has not consulted with local Indigenous communities.
Chief Kelsey J… Read More
2023-09-15 13:27
When Pathways to Dairy Net Zero (P2DNZ) made its debut ahead of the United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021, it looked like the kind of group that could meet an important but largely neg… Read More
2023-09-14 20:05
“I’m not saying don’t tell the truth, I’m saying it’s the level of truth that you give.”
This was advice provided by James Millar, president and CEO o… Read More
2023-09-14 18:55
“I belong here,” I reminded myself, as I drove toward the checkpoint to gain entry to the groundbreaking event for the $2.9 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (M… Read More
2023-09-13 22:09
In early June of last year, Indigenous rights expert Bruno Pereira and Guardian journalist Dom Phillips set off together on a riverboat journey through Brazil’s Javari Valley Indigeno… Read More
2023-09-13 16:52
With three months to go until the COP28 United Nations climate talks begin in Dubai, critics have stepped up their condemnation of the decision to put Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the head of Abu… Read More
2023-09-12 12:01
United Nations chief António Guterres has called on nations to arrive at September 20’s high-level climate summit in New York City with firm commitments for ending fossil fuel… Read More
2023-09-12 10:00
By Amy Westervelt, Drilled, and Geoff Dembicki, DeSmog, with additional reporting by Julianna Merullo and Lyndal Rowlands
Earlier this year, news footage began making the rounds on socia… Read More
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