Meat, Dairy and Pesticide Lobbyists Return in High Numbers to …
Nov 18, 2024 · Methodology Note. DeSmog analysed the provisional list of COP29 delegates, which includes over 66,000 entries.The list was analysed for the largest corporations in major food sectors – meat and dairy, pesticide and fertiliser firms, food processors, commodity and seed traders, and grocery retail – which wield significant control in a highly concentrated food chain, and account for the ...
Trump Energy Secretary Pick Chris Wright Calls Climate Crisis …
Nov 19, 2024 · The fracking executive selected by President-elect Donald Trump to run the U.S. Department of Energy, Chris Wright, has called the concept of carbon pollution “outrageous” and says that the influential climate crisis denier Bjorn Lomborg is a “friend.”. Wright is chief executive officer of Liberty Energy, a Colorado-based fracking company.
Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025
Oct 25, 2024 · But the findings from DeSmog’s recent investigation into Project 2025’s funding sources tell a very different story. Our wide-ranging analysis of public financial disclosure forms found that the groups on Project 2025’s advisory board — whose experts largely helped to draft the plan — are heavily funded by just six family fortunes.
British Gas Given Under the Radar Access to COP29 Climate Summit
Nov 16, 2024 · BAKU – The CEO of Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, has quietly gained access to the flagship COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, DeSmog can reveal. The UN’s official attendee list indicates that Christopher O’Shea is attending the conference as a guest of the African Centre for Climate …
Mapped: Inside Ireland’s Powerful Farming Lobby - DeSmog
Sep 25, 2024 · Despite a slight reduction in overall emissions last year, Ireland is still “well off track” in meeting its EU and national climate targets for 2030, according to its Environmental Protection Agency – in large part due to the methane from Ireland’s unchecked dairy production. The agriculture sector was responsible for over a third …
Revealed: Big Oil Told 70 Years Ago That Fossil Fuel Emissions …
Nov 12, 2024 · April 6, 1955, was a perfect spring day in Los Angeles. Downtown, the skies were unusually smog-free as Lauren B. Hitchcock, president of the Air Pollution Foundation, made his way up the marble steps of the city’s exclusive California Club for a meeting with some of the West Coast’s most powerful businessmen.
Governments Must Tackle Climate Disinformation, Experts Urge
Nov 14, 2024 · Governments around the world must take “immediate and decisive action” to tackle climate disinformation, scientists and campaign groups have urged as talks at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan enter their fourth day. A coalition of 55 climate information integrity groups and 42 leading climate scientists and …
Norway’s Equinor Admits It “Over-Reported” Amount of Carbon …
Oct 28, 2024 · The drop in CO2 capture and storage could be linked to waning natural gas production at Sleipner, said Grant Hauber, a researcher for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis think tank, who wrote a 2023 report on Norway’s carbon capture projects. “As production from the Sleipner field declines, the quantity of CO2 being handled declines,” Hauber told DeSmog in October.
ExxonMobil's Exit from Suriname Raises Pressure on Guyana Amid …
Dec 18, 2024 · By some estimates, there might be 2.4 billion barrels of oil deep below the waters of the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Suriname, South America’s smallest country.. The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is what’s mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as natural gas.
Reform’s First 100 Days of Climate Science Denial in Parliament
Oct 12, 2024 · Today marks 100 days since Nigel Farage’s Reform UK won five seats in the 4 July general election.. Reform MPs have used their new platform in Parliament to attack climate action and cast doubt on climate science – in speeches in the House of Commons, at the party’s annual conference, and in public appearances alongside …