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When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours

DeSmogBlog

Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. Cover extreme heat as a threat not a vacation. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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The World Is Burning, but Fossil Fuel Companies Are Meeting Behind Closed Doors to ‘Future-Proof Gas’. This Should Be Criminal. 

DeSmogBlog

Most of us only hear about fossil fuel crimes in the news. Most of us only hear about fossil fuel crimes in the news. Hundreds have died in Malawi from unprecedented flooding, and we have all just left behind 2022, which was peppered with extreme and record-breaking weather events.

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Liz Truss named UK Prime Minister: The green economy reacts

Business Green

Green business figures, politicians, think tanks, experts and more react to news that Britain has a new PM. Liz Truss has been named as UK's new Prime Minister today , having comfortably defeated her rival Rishi Sunak in this summer's Conservative Party leadership election.

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How climate change spurs megadroughts

Grist

Depending on how you look at it, California — and most of the American West — has either entered its third catastrophic drought of the past 10 years, or has been in a constant, unyielding “megadrought” since 2000. A dusty, winding trail led down into flatlands newly created by the shrinking waterline. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images.

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‘Hard-Right’ NatCon Event Was Organised by Oil Funded Group

DeSmogBlog

The National Conservatism (NatCon) conference was mired in controversy after the mayor of Brussels ordered police to shut down the event, leading to a standoff with its organisers. The NatCon Brussels event was sponsored and coordinated by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian think tank funded by oil and gas money.

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Global Briefing: Philippines announces coal power plant moratorium, as Asia accelerates net zero push

Business Green

Philippines unveils moratorium on new coal-fired power plants. The Filipino government rounded out a busy few weeks for the Asian clean energy transition this week, announcing a moratorium on new coal power plants in support efforts to accelerate renewables development.

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The trust cost of climate change inaction

Renewable Energy World

You’ve likely seen the news: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a report emphasizing humans’ extensive impact on global climate. The report outlined the devastating consequences of our actions and warned that we must make a rapid and unprecedented societal change to combat the perils of a world warmed by 1.5