Climate Denial & Greenwashing
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Victoria LNG Project Gets Swept Away in Australian Renewable Energy Surge
As Australian energy provider AGL officially pulls the plug on its proposed Victoria coast LNG import terminal, a new report predicts a surge in ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatBioenergyCarbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionCCS & Negative EmissionsClimate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsFirst PeoplesInternational Agencies & StudiesNon-Renewable EnergyRenewable EnergySoil & Natural Sequestration
Climate Scientists Explain Why Net-Zero is a ‘Dangerous Trap’: Part 2
In their continuing account of the various technological fixes on the road to net-zero emissions, veteran climate scientists James Dyke, Robert Watson, and Wolfgang ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatBioenergyCarbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionCCS & Negative EmissionsClimate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsFirst PeoplesInternational Agencies & StudiesNon-Renewable EnergyRenewable EnergySoil & Natural Sequestration
Climate Scientists Explain Why Net-Zero is a ‘Dangerous Trap’: Part 1
In a searing historical account of the various technological fixes on the road to net-zero emissions, veteran climate scientists James Dyke, Robert Watson, and ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionEnergy PoliticsHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPetrochemicals & PlasticsRenewable EnergySolarUnited States
Don’t Fall for Fossil Industry Spin, NAACP Warns U.S. Communities of Colour
The NAACP is warning its regional chapters not to fall for fossil industry manipulation by outlining the key tactics through which Big Oil advances ... -
CanadaCCS & Negative EmissionsClimate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingJurisdictionsMethaneMiddle EastNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasUnited States
Canada Joins U.S., Qatar, Saudi Arabia in Net-Zero Producers’ Forum
Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan says Canada will join the United States in establishing a platform for oil and gas producing countries to figure ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentInsurance & LiabilityJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasUnited States
Berkshire Hathaway Opposes Climate Risk Reporting Demands from Shareholders
Defiant in the face of political and shareholder pressure, investment Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway is refusing to begin annual reporting on its climate risk. ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingEuropeInternationalJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionMiddle EastNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasUnited States
UK Law Group Calls Out ‘Great Deception’ in Fossils’ Climate Ad Campaigns
A UK environmental law NGO is saying the world’s fossil companies are perpetrating a “great deception” by marketing earnest climate action even as they ... -
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Carney Launches New Net-Zero Finance Alliance with $70 Trillion in Assets
Nearly four dozen of the world’s biggest banks, insurance companies, and investment fund managers are vowing to mobilize trillions of dollars in financing for ... -
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Over 100 Nobel Winners Call for Global Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
One hundred and one Nobel laureates—including peace activists, economists, medical experts, chemists, and physicists—have released an open letter urging world leaders to sign a ... -
CCS & Negative EmissionsClimate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasUnited States
Daily Conversation Among Houston Energy Traders Turns to Renewables
In energy-centric Houston, the scuttlebutt around most office coolers is not the fading fortunes of fossil fuels, but the rising star of renewables—with the ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingFinance & InvestmentInternationalJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasUnited States
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Produces Many Questions, Few Results
While corporate sustainability reporting has become commonplace in boardrooms around the world, the practice is not living up to its billing as a path ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Denial & GreenwashingFirst PeoplesJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportUnited States
Enbridge Social Responsibility Pitch Rings Hollow with Indigenous Communities
Enbridge’s newly-minted enthusiasm for asserting a warm and fuzzy intersection between its activities and the spiritual and cultural practices of Indigenous Peoples is merely ... -
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‘No Vaccine for Climate Change’, Departing Toronto Energy Director Warns, in Critique of City’s Climate Performance
Toronto’s retiring director of environment and energy issued a broadside on his way out the door last week, warning councillors that there’s “no vaccine ... -
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Climate Impacts Wipe Out Seven Years of Food Production Growth as Big Ag Blocks Climate Action
Climate change has caused global food productivity growth to drop more than 20% since the 1960s, despite the billions of dollars Big Ag has ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Alberta Job Posting for ESG Czar More Talk than Action, Observers Say
The posting for a new high-level Alberta government job supposed to help the province align with environmental concerns from financial markets seems more about ...
