How a Peruvian farmer sued a German coal giant and helped create a legal blueprint to hold fossil producers accountable for climate harms.
Royce Kurmelovs
Royce Kurmelovs is an investigative journalist in Australia. In addition to contributing to The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Rolling Stone and several other outlets, he is the author of several books, including Slick, a 2024 book on Australia’s toxic relationship with the fossil fuel industry.
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Bad Maths: How economic modelling paved the way for AI on climate change
Before billionaires were using AI to justify not phasing out fossil fuel, governments and business were using economic modelling to do similar.
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“Numbers in the Trillions”: Fossil Fuel Producers on Hook for Climate Harms
New research suggests a way to link oil, gas and coal companies to specific climate harms.
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In Attempt to Avoid Trump Tariffs, Japan and Europe Make Questionable Gas Deals
Hoping to avoid 25% tariffs, Japanese and European officials have agreed to deals analysts are describing as financially questionable. Meanwhile, Trump seems prepared to impose tariffs on them anyway.
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How Australia’s CANDU Conservatives Fell in Love with Canadian Nuclear
Ontario, Canada is the only place in the world to tear out wind turbines and embrace nuclear power. Australia’s conservatives have been taking notes.
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The Australian Public Servant Who Helped The Oil Industry Convince The World That Stopping Climate Change Was Too Expensive
Brian Fisher, an economist employed for decades by the Australian government, was essential to obstructing not just climate policy in Australia but global climate action.
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Revealed: Oil Majors Used A Little-Known UN-Affiliated Organization to Seed the Economic Argument Against Climate Action
New documents show that as the fossil fuel industry worked to skew the scientific understanding of climate change, it also funded and promoted research to help make an economic argument against acting on the problem.
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The Great COP Co-opting: New Documents Show Big Oil Has Been There All Along
As global leaders call for overhauling the COP process, new documents show it’s been flawed from the start.
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In Australia, a New Way to Avoid Decommissioning Oil Fields: Call Them Carbon Capture Projects
Converting oil fields that are no longer productive into carbon capture and sequestration projects could turn a cost into a revenue stream for fossil fuel companies in Australia, thanks to climate policies that require no proof of any actual emissions reductions.
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False Solutions and Climate Delay
This series is supported in part by the Pulitzer Center, with several pieces co-published with media partners, including The Guardian, Vox, and Rolling Stone. Reporting on climate disinformation has increased exponentially over the past decade. In 2015, reporters at Inside Climate News, The Los Angeles Times, and Columbia Journalism School published the stories collectively referred […]