Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak. The fossil fuel industry funded some of the world’s most foundational climate science as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents have shown, including the early research of Charles Keeling, famous for the so-called “Keeling curve” that has charted the upward march...
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Biggest climate deniers, blockers, and fossil fuel PR firms attend COP28
Shills for Chevron, Exxon, Shell, and Total among those at UN climate talks DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Fossil fuel corporations aren’t the only ones flooding climate talks. As analysis by Corporate Accountability finds, some of the fossil fuel industry’s most vocal surrogates for climate denial and propaganda are well-represented. What’s more, these climate obstructors have...
The Climate Summit Is a Sick Joke. You Should Be Angry and Afraid | Opinion
The annual United Nations climate summit started yesterday. We’re up to the 28th edition: “COP28.” Past UN summits have obviously failed us, but this is a new low. Everyone on Earth needs to know that the meeting has been overrun by fossil fuel executives, making it a sick, planet-destroying joke. There’s no real hope of stopping catastrophic global...
Cop28 president denies on eve of summit he abused his position to sign oil deals
Sultan Al Jaber calls allegations false as the United Arab Emirates prepares to host the biggest Cop meeting yet. Sultan Al Jaber, the president of the UN Cop28 climate summit, has hit back strongly at reports he abused his position to try to sign oil deals with other governments, as the United Arab Emirates prepares to...
Al Gore on why the ‘deck is stacked against’ COP28
Welcome back — and a big thank you to all the participants who made day one of the Moral Money Summit Americas such a success (especially the many loyal readers in attendance).We continue today in New York with an action-packed second day, featuring former Colombian president Iván Duque Márquez, Verizon chief executive Hans Vestberg, Hester...
Al Gore hits out at fossil fuel industry’s‘capture’ of UN climate negotiations
Former US vice-president and climate campaigner Al Gore has hit out at the fossil fuelindustry’s “capture” of global UN negotiations on climate change “to a disturbingdegree”.It was “time to abandon the mistaken assumption” that oil and gas companies andpetrostates were “good faith participants” during the UN process that culminates in asummit to be held in...
I’m Suing Fossil Fuel Companies for $1.15 Billion
I’m a plaintiff’s trial lawyer, representing claimants in disputes decided in the civil justice system. That’s not to say I have a problem with defense lawyers. My wife is one, and she’s the love of my life. I have a servant’s heart, and I have spent the last 30 years representing people who have been...
What the fossil fuel industry doesn’t want you to know
What the fossil fuel industry doesn’t want you to know. In a blistering talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore looks at the two main obstacles to climate solutions and gives his view of how we might actually solve the environmental crisis in time. You won’t want to miss his searing indictment of fossil fuel companies for...
UAE defends Big Oil’s role at UN climate summit it will host
BERLIN (AP) — A senior United Arab Emirates official says the Gulf nation wants the U.N. climate summit it’s hosting later this year to deliver “game-changing results” for international efforts to curb global warming, but doing so will require having the fossil fuel industry at the table. Environmental campaigners have slammed the presence of oil...