Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

More than 250 firms call for final document to set out a plan for tackling climate misinformation online. European Climate Foundation CEO Laurence Tubiana, 350.org European Climate Foundation CEO Laurence Tubiana, 350.org

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It has also emerged recently that Big Oil sponsored climate research in 1954 long before Exxon’s 1970s research. Worse than this, the companies subsequently actively sponsored climate misinformation in the late 1980s/early 1990s when the issue exploded on the global political stage.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. The mid-July briefing for journalists featured researchers and reporters who are experts in tracking and analyzing climate disinformation.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis. org and producer of the Clean Creatives campaign, told BusinessGreen.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

Social media platform claims to be the first to have 'clearly defined guidelines' to tackle false or misleading climate change information across both advertising and user content. Pinterest has announced plans to block all climate misinformation on its site, across both content posted by users and ads placed by companies.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 31, 2023

Voters also significantly overestimate the proportion of vehicles that will be charged under London’s expanded ultra low emission zone (ULEZ), suggesting that misinformation may have influenced public attitudes towards the scheme. This polling shows the public way ahead of the government when it comes to the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

The first page of Menlo Park, California’s 2030 Climate Action Plan shows a map predicting which parts of the city will be underwater by the end of the century, flooded by the rising waters of San Francisco Bay. Climate scientists warn future years may bring wildfire smoke at levels the San Francisco Chronicle calls “practically unbearable.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2022

Matthew joins DeSmog from Reuters, where he has covered climate and environmental stories for the past four years — with a particular focus on the intersection between the climate crisis, finance, and the energy transition. Matthew will help us achieve this bold vision.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Fossil fuel-linked groups spent around $4 million on Facebook and Instagram that spread false climate claims over the COP27 summit, a new report says. They also found a rise in content related to outright climate-science denial by ‘anti-woke’ pundits on Twitter, who pushed #ClimateScam and lines such as ‘climate is a hoax’.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Facebook is considering fact checking and badging corporate climate and environmental claims made on its platforms in a bid to combat 'greenwashing', according to one of the social media giant's top European executives. Misinformation is an issue on our platform," he acknowledged. "We

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Over a dozen instructors associated with a new online school called Peterson Academy , created by Canadian conservative influencer Jordan Peterson , have disputed the existence of a climate emergency, or opposed solutions that could address dangerous levels of warming. Pooley is a senior fellow with The Discovery Institute , a U.S.-based

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Trends in corporate sustainability have been mostly consistent — an expanding climate crisis, lightning-speed growth in clean tech, rising pressure from many stakeholders, and more. Global climate meeting falls short. The message is that managing climate and other ESG issues is core to business value.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The UK government’s most senior climate minister has publicly celebrated a petrol campaigner who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims “man is not responsible for global warming”. Cox has publicly denied climate science. The party is polling around ten percent. Drivers must get a fair price at the pump.”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 21, 2022

A new report by Reality Team, a nonprofit digital marketing group, suggests that social media ads can help reach people who aren’t closely watching topics like climate change or vaccine science and are often targeted by disinformation campaigns. Disinformation and misinformation both, by definition , use false claims. Levoy said. “It

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

Big Tech platforms are spreading climate disinformation “with impunity” but have the tools to solve this crisis, a new report has said today. Deny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and Responding to Climate Disinformation at COP26” was launched on Thursday at the Bonn Climate Change Conference. Vested Interests’.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Today, the team at DeSmog is excited to reveal our new global mission and website dedicated to fearless investigations and comprehensive resources to combat the ongoing crisis of climate solutions denial and social injustices. We are also unveiling investigations into a volatile oil deal in Somalia pursued by two U.S. and the world.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. Last week, the UK Meteorological Office issued its first-ever red warning for extreme heat in England which, according to reports from the Guardian, led to firefighters’ busiest day since the Second World War.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

While the advert will no doubt seem enticing to BusinessGreen readers, the final wording of the post came as a disappointment to the digital marketing specialist behind the campaign, who had hoped to entice young people to the event with the more punchy appeal to "discover your role in the fight against climate change".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Clean tech and energy companies are calling on the social media giant to review its climate advertising policies, noting the current state of play undermines their campaigns. The response to it is simple: reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Facebook recently acknowledged this in a post.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

Oxford University is facing criticism after the UK’s principal climate science denial group appointed a second professor to its ranks. Defending his membership of the thinktank, Dobson told DeSmog he did not consider members of the Global Warming Policy Foundation to be climate deniers “for the most part”. Fossil Fuel Ties.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

A business lobby group that regularly meets with top elected officials and policymakers in British Columbia is now being led by someone who once argued that human-caused climate change is an “untested proposition.” The papers in this volume make it clear that global warming is not a settled issue,” Jones wrote in the introduction.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Social media giant launches fresh crackdown on climate misinformation, a new analysis highlights how G20 nations can keep 1.5C Facebook updates climate policy. alive, and India launches a major new green vehicle programme. Report: G20 nations can keep 1.5C goal within reach.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2023

Until very recently, if you wanted to know more about a controversial scientific topic – stem cell research, the safety of nuclear energy, climate change – you probably did a Google search. It can produce misinformation. Perhaps the trickiest issue with AI-generated content is knowing when it is wrong.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

Facebook said it would now continue to ramp up its climate investments as it worked to deliver a separate goal of achieving net zero emissions across its value chain by 2030. A spokesperson for the company also confirmed that in addition to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by more than 2.6

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 3, 2023

Companies are increasingly facing legal action over their false or misleading climate communications, according to a new report examining trends in global climate litigation. Out of 81 climate-washing cases filed against companies since 2015, nearly two-thirds were brought in 2021 and 2022.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has today called for all industrialised countries to tax the windfall profits of fossil fuel companies in order to ramp up support for both citizens worldwide struggling with soaring food and energy costs and countries ravaged by escalating climate impacts.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As the impacts of a changing climate rapidly intensify worldwide, the climate crisis is also hitting businesses and the financial sector where it hurts: the wallet. The Chamber’s opposition to the SEC’s proposal goes against the global push towards more comparable and reliable climate risk disclosures.”. “It

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Grist

DECEMBER 2, 2019

For issues as broad as climate change, the thinking goes, these creative folks could take academic findings and translate them for people who don’t speak the language of facts and numbers fluently. So how would working with artists help climate scientists communicate? O’Connell: I think it would help incredibly.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A poll showing public support for a referendum on the UK’s net zero goal covered on the front page of yesterday’s Telegraph was paid for by a newly-launched climate science denial group run by a leading figure in actor Laurence Fox’s political party. Anti-Net Zero Campaign.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But anti-fracking sentiments have spawned a great deal of misinformation around the technique. The public may blame fracking, when in fact it is a different issue entirely. Millions of gallons of water can be required to frack a well, and that can make it especially challenging in arid climates. million wells in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. Just like COVID disinformation, climate disinfo costs lives.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Climate change and the net zero transition are now a mainstream concern. The idea that these trends would become the defining issue of the age has gone from environmentalist hyperbole to received wisdom in the corridors of power. Climate impacts threaten to make this volatility a terrifying new normal.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

In a first at the state level, the City of Hoboken, New Jersey recently added racketeering charges to its climate lawsuit against major petroleum producers and their national trade group the American Petroleum Institute (API). Puerto Rico lodged federal racketeering charges against the industry in a class action climate case last November.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

Opponents feared the rise of a Fox News-style outlet, peddling “hate”, misinformation and confected outrage, backed by investors who promoted a “hard” Brexit and have taken funding from the Koch family , notorious for bankrolling climate obstructivism. Deniers and David Attenborough. So, an inasupicious start, at best.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Their international allies range from climate science denying organisations to former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss. A spokesperson said the company had a “strict zero deforestation policy” as well as “strong commitments to action on climate change”. Climate Denial. A spokesperson for Feffer declined to comment.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Former HSBC executive who controversially questioned climate impacts and climate disclosure rules joins the FT. FT editor Roula Khalaf described Kirk as an "outstanding writer" who brings a "wealth of experience and insight from his career in financial services" and is "well placed" to comment on the issues facing the sector. "I

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The BBC’s flagship current affairs show this week has hosted a climate sceptic with links to the gas sector without declaring the guest’s professional ties, DeSmog can reveal. Research by DeSmog shows that Porter has a track record of publicly casting doubt on established science on human-caused climate change.

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