Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding. Lawrence Carter & Maeve McClenaghan spill the beans ...
Climate 'academics for hire' conceal fossil fuel funding Lawrence Carter Maeve McClenaghan Greenpeace Energydesk | 9th December 2015 News Fossil Fuels Climate Change Science UK US ted-cruz-cut.jpg …
ExxonMobil has long known that climate change is real and dangerous, write Louise Rouse & Naomi Ages, while denying it in public and supporting climate change deniers. Now they accuse their critics of 'chilling' climate science and the search for solutions. The truth is the precise opposite.
… of New York and California in confirming investigations into Exxon's climate change … actions, journalistic exposés, and legal investigations. With every development, it … the company to "apologize" . Funders of investigations also in the in the line of fire …
President Trump's recent executive order could open an area of America's most precious landscapes bigger than Yellowstone to oil drilling and coal mining, write Lawrence Carter & Joe Sandler Clarke. The 27 monuments 'under review' harbour huge volumes of oil, gas and coal: just what's needed to fuel Trump's vision of fossil fuel-led development - never mind the cost to scenery, wildlife, historic sites and indigenous cultures.
Trump's National Monument order could open 2.7 million acres to oil, gas, coal Lawrence Carter Joe Sandler Clarke Greenpeace Energydesk | 12th May 2017 News USA Fossil Fuels Oil Gas Coal Climate …
Between 2011 and 2016 the UK's export finance agency UKEF provided £109m to underwrite exports of equipment to coal mines in Russia, writes Lawrence Carter - despite the agency's commitment not to support 'investment in dirty fossil-fuel energy production'. And that's just a fraction of the £6.9 billion UKEF has lavished on the corrupt, polluting sector since 2000, while it was meant to be backing the clean energy technologies of the future.
Leaked: UK £7 billion export credit for fossil fuel industry violates 'clean energy' pledge Lawrence Carter Greenpeace Energydesk | 16th May 2017 News Finance Politics Fossil Fuels Climate Change UK …
The UK's financing of fossil fuels abroad increased tenfold in two years to exceed £1 billion in 2013 / 2014, writes Christine Ottery. Incredibly, the fossil fuel funding increase came after a government promise to use the money to support 'innovative and green technologies'.
UK's soaraway financial support to foreign fossil fuels Christine Ottery Greenpeace Energydesk | 9th January 2015 News UK Finance Fossil Fuels Oil Gas Coal Climate Change Politics …
With a million families struggling to stay warm this winter, energy bills will be a hot election issue, writes Doug Parr. But Government actions have repeatedly favoured the 'big six' energy incumbents at the expense of consumers, competition, low-cost renewables and energy efficiency, locking us into high bills for years to come.
Seven ways the Government is pushing up our energy bills Doug Parr Greenpeace Energydesk | 15th January 2015 Comment Energy Consumerism Renewables Fossil Fuels Corporations Politics drax-cut.jpg With …