DeSmog (2024)

22/11/2024

Building cases on laws she wrote into the statute books 30 years ago, Melinda Janki is deploying every conceivable legal strategy in her bid to halt ExxonMobil’s fast-growing oil drilling operations off the coast of Guyana.

Learn more in the Q&A from Matthew Green with the Pocket Project 🔗

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Melinda Janki wants to protect her home country of Guyana from the risks posed by Big Oil.

22/11/2024

A Hungarian “climate institute” attending COP29 is an offshoot of an Orbán-backed think tank funded by the state oil and gas company.

According to the official UN list, CPI director Mónika Besenyei, head of secretariat Csilla Gajer, three researchers and three “students” all attended as part of Hungary’s “overflow” delegation.

Learn more in the article from Adam Barnett 🔗

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A Hungarian “climate institute” attending COP29 is an offshoot of an Orbán-backed think tank funded by the state oil and gas company. Nine delegates from the Climate Policy Institute (CPI) were down to attend the United Nations climate summit, now in its second week in Baku, Azerbaijan. Accor...

$The fracking executive selected by President-elect Donald Trump to run the U.S. Department of Energy, Chris Wright, has ...$

22/11/2024

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.”

Learn more from Geoff Dembicki 🔗

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With fracking CEO Wright tapped to serve in Trump’s cabinet, Lomborg’s influence could extend into the highest levels of the U.S. government.

21/11/2024

Hundreds of lobbyists for industrial agriculture have shown up at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, new analysis shows.

This year representatives are back from some of the world’s largest agribusiness companies – such as Brazilian meatpacker JBS, animal pharmaceuticals company Elanco, and food giant PepsiCo – as well as powerful trade groups representing the food sector.

Overall, 204 agriculture delegates have accessed the talks this year, analysis by DeSmog and The Guardian reveals.

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BAKU – Hundreds of lobbyists for industrial agriculture have shown up at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, new analysis shows. This year representatives are back from some of the world’s largest agribusiness companies – such as Brazilian meatpacker JBS, animal pharmaceuticals compa...

21/11/2024

JBS – the world’s largest meat company, with a net revenue of $3.1 billion in the second quarter of 2024 alone – is seeking more funding to combat climate change.

The company’s global CEO Gilberto Tomazoni complained in September that “currently, only four percent of climate change investment is directed toward agriculture and food systems” , going on to laud agriculture’s “tremendous potential to capture carbon” and estimating the bill for transformation at $300 to $350 billion.

Tomazoni’s bid to cast the meat sector as an overlooked would-be protagonist in the fight against climate change stands out in Brazil where the meat sector is responsible for a large share of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Read more in Rachel Sherrington's latest article 🔗

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JBS – the world’s largest meat company, with a net revenue of $3.1 billion in the second quarter of 2024 alone – is seeking more funding to combat climate change. The company’s global CEO Gilberto Tomazoni complained in September that “currently, only four percent of climate change inves...

20/11/2024

It’s not just oil giants seeking to sway the climate talks. Their favourite PR firms are in Baku, too.

Get the latest on COP29 from TJ Jordan 🔗

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Fossil-friendly communications companies are represented on some national delegations to the climate talks, DeSmog analysis finds.

20/11/2024

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Hungary COP29 Climate Delegates Linked to State Oil Company

✍️ Adam Barnett

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A Hungarian “climate institute” attending COP29 is an offshoot of an Orbán-backed think tank funded by the state oil and gas company. Nine delegates from the Climate Policy Institute (CPI) were down to attend the United Nations climate summit, now in its second week in Baku, Azerbaijan. Accor...

20/11/2024

Paris-based advertising giant Havas has warned investors of the reputational risks associated with its work for fossil fuel companies in the latest fall-out from its decision to work with UK oil major Shell.

📝 Ellen Ormesher

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Paris-based advertising giant Havas has warned investors of the reputational risks associated with its work for fossil fuel companies in the latest fall-out from its decision to work with UK oil major Shell. Havas, whose CEO Yannick Bolloré had repeatedly voiced concern over the climate crisis, fac...

20/11/2024

Fossil fuel companies are spending millions on sketchy climate solution campaigns to deflect attention from the need to stop drilling for more oil and gas.

Learn more from Ellen Ormesher 🔗

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Fossil fuel companies are paying millions on new campaigns to distract the public from slashing carbon pollution.

20/11/2024

When Trump lost in 2020, many climate deniers in the government had been spun out of the revolving door into various private sector jobs, sometimes lobbying for energy companies they had recently regulated. But as anyone reading the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 plans for a second Trump administration make clear, these people, organizations, and ideas are ripe for shaping not only U.S. environmental policy, should Trump’s team harvest them, but also shaping our very climate.

DeSmog’s Sharon Kelly and Joe Fassler outlined the climate deniers to watch and the Project 2025 policy priorities on climate and environment in every executive branch agency.
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Meet those aiming to capitalize on Trump’s re-election by slashing climate action, from Koch network fixtures to Project 2025 and beyond.

$Trump Energy Secretary Pick Chris Wright Calls Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg a ‘Friend’With fracking CEO Wright ta...$

19/11/2024

Trump Energy Secretary Pick Chris Wright Calls Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg a ‘Friend’

With fracking CEO Wright tapped to serve in Trump’s cabinet, Lomborg’s influence could extend into the highest levels of the U.S. government.

📝 Geoff Dembicki

https://loom.ly/Sc4uWhM

With fracking CEO Wright tapped to serve in Trump’s cabinet, Lomborg’s influence could extend into the highest levels of the U.S. government.

19/11/2024

Q&A: Meet the Lawyer Fighting To Pry the ‘Jewel’ From ExxonMobil’s Crown

Melinda Janki wants to protect her home country of Guyana from the harms caused by Big Oil.

📝 Matthew Green

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Melinda Janki wants to protect her home country of Guyana from the risks posed by Big Oil.

19/11/2024

Meat, dairy, and pesticide lobbyists have returned in high numbers to the COP29 climate summit.

Agriculture delegates use influence to “distract” policymakers from genuine solutions needed to transform food and farming, say campaigners.

📝 Rachel Sherrington

https://loom.ly/FAG9JTw

BAKU – Hundreds of lobbyists for industrial agriculture have shown up at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, new analysis shows. This year representatives are back from some of the world’s largest agribusiness companies – such as Brazilian meatpacker JBS, animal pharmaceuticals compa...

19/11/2024

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Meat, Dairy and Pesticide Lobbyists Return in High Numbers to Climate Summit

✍️ Rachel Sherrington

https://loom.ly/oOQv__Y

JBS – the world’s largest meat company, with a net revenue of $3.1 billion in the second quarter of 2024 alone – is seeking more funding to combat climate change. The company’s global CEO Gilberto Tomazoni complained in September that “currently, only four percent of climate change inves...

19/11/2024

Animal agriculture is one of the leading drivers of the climate crisis. According to a recent World Bank report, food and agriculture generate almost a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, of which meat and dairy account for nearly 60 percent.

📝 Alessandro Ramazzotti is a researcher at the International Accountability Project, an international advocacy organization.

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Alessandro Ramazzotti is a researcher at the International Accountability Project, an international advocacy organization Animal agriculture is one of the leading drivers of the climate crisis. According to a recent World Bank report, food and agriculture generate almost a third of global greenhouse...

19/11/2024

Steven Guilbeault came to the COP29 climate change negotiations in Azerbaijan ready to make what the federal Liberal government deemed a “major” announcement.

The Canadian minister of environment promised a financing platform worth more than $2 billion which can help developing countries prepare for the worst impacts of climate change and shift their economies to cleaner sources of energy.

But though a rapid acceleration of climate finance – sometimes referred to as climate reparations – is badly needed, Canada is set to undermine that goal back home by potentially funneling billions of dollars to oil and gas producers at the heart of the climate crisis.

Behind the scenes, oil patch lobbyists are apparently hard at work seeking expensive subsidies from the Canadian taxpayer.

Learn more from Mitch Anderson 🔗

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With spotlight on politicians and their pledges in Baku, fossil fuel lobbyists are racking up private meetings with Trudeau’s government.

19/11/2024

A secret recording. Damaging headlines. Allegations of “treason.”

For Azerbaijan, host of the COP29 climate talks opening in the capital Baku, reports that a senior official had apparently used his position on the organising team to pursue oil and gas deals might seem like a public relations disaster.

Don't miss the story from TJ Jordan and Kathryn Clare 🔗

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A secret recording. Damaging headlines. Allegations of “treason.” For Azerbaijan, host of the COP29 climate talks opening in the capital Baku on Monday, reports that a senior official had apparently used his position on the organising team to pursue oil and gas deals might seem like a public r...

18/11/2024

In the wake of Donald Trump’s electoral victory, climate policy in the U.S. enters an uncertain new era.

Some themes are already apparent: Trump has pledged to scale up domestic fossil fuel production while making a broader push to deregulate industry.

Read more in Joe Fassler and Sharon Kelly 🔗

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Meet those aiming to capitalize on Trump’s re-election by slashing climate action, from Koch network fixtures to Project 2025 and beyond.

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