How a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy
Carbon capture and storage has been over-indexed in climate models and IPCC projections that underpin policy worldwide. How did that happen?
Big Oil Walked so Big Tech Could Run | Newsletter
Climate may not be a talking point in the midterms, but it’s very much on the ballot via the focus on gas prices, inflation, and Big Tech’s takeover.
Is Australia’s ABC Asking the Wrong Questions About Climate Change?
An ad campaign from Australia’s ABC repeated fossil fuel industry talking points. We wanted to find out why.
What the Pre-COP in the Pacific Tells Us About What to Expect at COP31
The world was drawing a line between talking and doing on climate change in 2026. That was the message from Fiji. Speaking at a press conference in the final hours of the four-day pre-COP meeting in the Pacific, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) executive secretary Simon Stiell warned “every nation is on…
Pipeline Propagandists Targeted Standing Rock’s Neighbors; Then Came a Data Center | Newsletter
The pipeline giant Energy Transfer paid a mercenary security firm to use Facebook to fuel divisions between an Indigenous-led movement and its mostly white, rural neighbors. Personnel working for the private security contractor TigerSwan described their divisive propaganda plans in WhatsApp chats and emails that Drilled and High Country News published at the end of…
Indigenous Communities, Activists in Africa Gird for Legal Battles with Governments over Climate Harms
A lawsuit filed in the Ugandan district of Mbale in 2020, shortly after weather experts warned that eastern Uganda would receive some of the heaviest rains in years is indicative of a broader, if still uneven, movement across Africa in recent years: Communities and activists are increasingly turning to the courts to challenge governments and…
The Climate Movement Isn’t in Retreat, It’s Under Attack…and It’s Time to Fight Back | Newsletter
In 2020, a source shared a presentation with me from an internal branding workshop they’d been asked to attend for bp. It was fascinating for a number of reasons, not least because it indicated that the oil major felt genuinely threatened by a surprising new enemy: young people. There have always been ebbs and flows…
A Team of Australian Researchers Wants to Bring Attribution Science to the Masses
It is not clear what is happening at first. In one video, a CCTV camera looks out over a port facility; in another it is a grand building that marks the Nepal-China border crossing. There are people in these images but from this distance, they look like specks. But the specks on the screen are…
Himalayan Nation Has Surplus Clean Energy but No Buyers at Home or Abroad
An interview with Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.
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