DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Read time: 4 mins The French state has been found guilty of climate action in what campaigners have dubbed “the case of the century”. . Today the Paris administrative court concluded France has failed to do enough to meet its own commitments on the climate crisis and is legally responsible for the ensuing ecological damage.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

The White House is billing it as a “generational investment” that will lead to “transformational progress in our ability to tackle climate change.”. Tags: Enbridge Line 3 pipeline Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Environmental Network Biden administration

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2021

Read time: 12 mins The fossil fuel industry and its investors have financially benefited from tax policies and subsidies designed to reduce the emissions from oil, gas, and coal — sometimes without taking the action required to tackle climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Climate litigation is not going away any time soon. Tags: climate litigaton climate lawsuits climate crisis Human Rights Urgenda carbon majors COVID-19 Tags: climate litigaton climate lawsuits climate crisis Human Rights Urgenda carbon majors COVID-19

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week OVO to offer heat pumps at lower cost than gas boilers Energy supplier touts new offer promising heat pumps at cheaper price tag and running costs than conventional gas boilers. -

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 31, 2020

Tags: fossil fuel industry ExxonMobil Fraud climate risks National Whistleblower Center Tags: fossil fuel industry ExxonMobil Fraud climate risks National Whistleblower Center

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Read time: 6 mins This week, a group of eight Australian teens has brought a groundbreaking new climate change lawsuit against Australia’s Federal Minister for the Environment in an effort to stop a proposed coal mine expansion in the state of New South Wales, roughly 267 miles north of Sydney.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Read time: 17 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on stories with the theme of 'climate politics'. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Chamber of Commerce over its lobbying on climate change issues published a report today criticizing the pro-business lobbying and advocacy group for continuing to push for pro-fossil fuel policies despite recognizing that climate change is real. Our climate is changing and humans are contributing to these changes,” the website says.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2020

Read time: 9 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Climate Change Countermovement Coalitions 1989-2015 , author Robert Brulle, looks at “key political coalitions that worked to oppose climate action. Climate Change Countermovement Coalitions 1989-2015 , author Robert Brulle, looks at “key political coalitions that worked to oppose climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 3 mins This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database , where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. Tags: Agribusiness Database

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Read time: 2 mins Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil today over the company's misinformation campaign to delay action to address climate change. . Tags: Maura Healey #ExxonKnew climate liability climate change lawsuit Exxon Mobil

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 9, 2020

Read time: 6 mins Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has doubled down on his refusal to strengthen his administration’s approach to climate policy as his country burns. Tags: infowars Newswars alex jones myron ebell patrick michaels Tony Abbott global warming policy foundation christopher monckton rupert murdoch

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2020

Read time: 4 mins Advocates for holding fossil fuel companies accountable in court for the substantial costs of climate change are urging New Jersey to sue oil majors like ExxonMobil, as over a dozen municipal and state governments have done over the past three years.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Read time: 9 mins Last week, as climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit, invited leaders from major environmental groups spent their day listening to the leaders of fossil fuel companies discuss how they want to respond to the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Exxon, for example, stands to lose at least 80 percent of its business-as-usual petroleum investments if the world takes action to limit global temperature rise to 1.6 degrees F), a limit that is within the “well below 2 degrees C” goal prescribed in the Paris Climate Agreement. degrees C (2.9

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Read time: 6 mins This story is part of Covering Climate Now , a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. . Millions of children and adults are expected to strike across the globe today, inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg ’s call for climate action. .

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The investigation , published Monday, October 26, also describes how the auto giants largely dismissed those risks and actively lobbied to block action and fund climate science denial campaigns.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Social media influencers were paid to boost the UAE’s climate credentials in and around COP28 in what appears to be a coordinated PR effort by the oil-dependent host nation, DeSmog can reveal. Researchers identified at least five high-profile Instagram accounts which appeared to promote the UAE as a climate leader during the summit.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

How the climate crisis will crash the economy. Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. The financial climate, it seems, has been as unforgiving as the atmospheric one. Joel Makower. Mon, 09/14/2020 - 02:11.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Chicago last week brought the newest lawsuit against Big Oil companies for spreading disinformation about the climate-warming hazards of burning fossil fuels — adding the third largest city in the U.S. BP is simultaneously reneging on its climate pledges and increasing its production of oil and gas. “At

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2020

Read time: 11 mins While fossil fuel companies defend against mounting climate liability lawsuits in court, their surrogates are working in parallel to target the attorneys, academics, and institutions supporting these lawsuits. Tags: ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) chris horner Energy Policy Advocates climate liability

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

More than two decades later, that blueprint is still being followed in a broad-scale effort to serve the Kochs’ free-market libertarian ideology, to prop up the oil and gas industries that pad their fortunes, and to forestall any political action on climate change that they believe would threaten their bottom line.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2019

The 16-year-old has become the face of youth climate action, going from a lone child sitting outside the Swedish parliament building in mid-2018 to a symbol for climate strikers — young and old — around the world. Their actions or inactions will determine how much more vocal youth will become in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Capitol, calling for action on climate change. Tags: Jane Fonda Washington DC civil disobedience FireDrillFridays Naomi Klein Read time: 3 mins Every Friday for the last seven weeks, actress and activist Jane Fonda has held a rally and act of civil disobedience in front of the U.S. This final week in Washington, D.C.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2020

Read time: 13 mins As 2020 begins, the impacts of climate change have become increasingly clear around the world. Today's climate impacts have been shaped heavily by actions taken during the last 10 years, particularly in the U.S., So far, 29 people have been reported dead. In that time, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 4 mins DeSmog was launched in January 2006 to call out the public relations industry for working with fossil fuel industry clients to sow doubt and seed misinformation about climate science.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

This story is part of Covering Climate Now , a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. . Its leadership is facing calls to simultaneously increase its ambition to tackle climate change and cut the very regulations that would deliver reductions in globe-warming pollution.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The report also reveals which teams are most likely to have fans that are vegetarian, have an affinity for the outdoors, a particular stance on climate justice, and those most likely to follow Al Gore and Greta Thunberg. . To reach these rankings, Zoomph’s platform started with about 342 million anonymized profiles.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The UK government has defended its decision to celebrate representatives of companies involved in Canada’s controversial tar sands industry as “Climate Champions”, ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit it is set to host later this year. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The COP27 Presidency has today launched a new global plan that aims to mobilise state and non-state actors behind a shared set of climate adaptation goals for 2030 that span food and agriculture, water and nature, coasts and oceans, infrastructure, and human livelihoods. Seven times that amount will be needed annually until 2030.".

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

All these proposals fall under the purview of the European Green Deal, first approved in 2020, whose goal is to achieve incremental sustainable growth so that Europe becomes the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Green Deal legislation has proven most adaptable to the times. Food and pharmaceutical products will be excluded.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Read time: 5 mins In August, the French news service AFP revealed that the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) has been drafting new climate action guidelines for businesses that raise concerns about promoting geoengineering as a climate solution. .

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

The firm also announced this week that it is rolling out a brand-new look as a "visual statement of its recommitment to climate action", while also unveiling a new two-decade tree planting strategy. It uses satellite technology, geo-tagging, photographic evidence, and field visits to monitor the impact of its reforestation projects.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Read time: 7 mins This story is part of Covering Climate Now , a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. . That is the situation facing one of the world’s most powerful industries, on one of the most consequential issues of our time, climate change.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Clean transport advocates point out £30bn price tag for railway electrification is in the same ball park as budget for road building. The budget for road building is £34bn so spending more to make the climate emergency worse is better than spending less to reduce carbon.".

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