As global leaders call for overhauling the COP process, new documents show it’s been flawed from the start.
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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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.
Posted inThink Tanks
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 […]
Posted inLitigation and Law
Climate Cases
In the U.S., the response to climate litigation is often “who cares when this Supreme Court is ultimately going to knock it back anyway?” And the answer is simple: discovery. Discovery is a term that describes the fact-finding phase of civil litigation. During the discovery phase, lawyers can access primary documents, depose current and former […]
Posted inInternational climate negotiations
International Climate Negotiations
Every few years the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases an assessment, which consists of several reports prepared by three working groups. Working Group I focuses on the scientific evidence for climate change; Working Group II on the impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities; and Working Group III on mitigation, what we can do about it […]
