GreenBiz
AUGUST 13, 2020
2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels. Last year, no fossil company made the top 10 list. Hunter Lovins.
DeSmogBlog
MAY 21, 2024
ExxonMobil saw a “limited” role for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in fighting climate change, but still promoted the technology in its advertising campaigns, internal company documents show. While working at Exxon, Gulden led a team that maintained technology used to generate a portion of the Energy Outlook.
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DeSmogBlog
JUNE 12, 2024
It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021, when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise to “irrefutably to turn the tide and to begin the fightback against climate change”. million has been given to pro-fossil fuel think tanks by Tory donors since the 2019 general election.
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 5, 2023
According to Saudi Aramco’s podcast, the fossil fuel industry is innovating new climate solutions, and BP’s podcast proclaims more of the same. A 2016 Georgetown University study found that advertorials — also known as native advertising — are mistaken for “real” content by about two thirds of people.
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
From the world’s biggest soccer championship to soccer training for kids , from major universities to music festivals and art galleries to — if you can name it, fossil fuel companies have probably sponsored it. TotalEnergies will sponsor the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 27, 2023
DeSmog analysed examples of more than 100 influencers being paid to promote fossil fuel firms worldwide since 2017, from the US to Malaysia, in campaigns that have reached billions of people. While there’s more knowledge in general around climate change and the harms of fossil fuels, I think that people have a lot of trust in creators.
DeSmogBlog
MAY 24, 2022
HSBC has been accused of double standards after suspending an executive who said investors “need not worry” about climate change, while continuing to plough billions of pounds into fossil fuels. HSBC has financed £103 billion in fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2016, including £43.8
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