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 …
9,000 new homes in the 'fast track' housing development zones created by the UK government are in areas of flood risk, making them potentially uninhabitable and uninsurable, according to a Greenpeace investigation - and that's before accounting for the increased flood risk from by climate change. Meanwhile future levels of funding for flood control are looking highly uncertain.
Government planning thousands of new homes for flood zones Maeve McClenaghan Greenpeace Energydesk | 8th January 2015 News Water Development UK Floods Politics medway-floods-2014-cut.jpg 9,000 new …
A Greenpeace investigation has exposed the massive efforts of global food and drink giant Coca Cola to defeat popular proposals to require deposits on single-use plastic bottles, writes Maeve McClenaghan. In fact, deposit schemes are working fine in many countries in which the company operates - it's a simple case of corporate profit before environment, oceans and wildlife.
Exposed: Coca Cola's big 'fight back' against tackling plastic waste Maeve McClenaghan Greenpeace Energydesk | 2nd February 2017 News Waste Pollution Corporations Politics UK EU Scotland Oceans …
Disregarding revelations of systemic political corruption in Brazil's hydropower sector, President Dilma Rousseff is ploughing ahead with a cascade of giant dams on the mighty Tapajos river. Among the companies touting to win huge construction contracts are France's EDF and Engie, and Germany's Voith and Siemens - in a consortium led by Brazil's Electrobras, which stands accused of high-level corruption over four other dam projects.
European companies line up to bid for Amazon megadam Zachary Boren Greenpeace Energydesk | 13th April 2016 News Corporations Brazil Forests Politics Finance Water Energy Hydropower Indigenous Peoples …
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 …
The UK's official agency for car pollution testing has taken £80 million from the auto industry in ten years, a Greenpeace investigation reveals, while its senior staff and engineers have a 'revolving door' relationship with car makers.
Car pollution regulator's auto industry millions Lawrence Carter Greenpeace Energydesk | 12th October 2015 News Pollution Health Corporations Regulation UK 1024px-vw_west-cut.jpg The UK's official …
A new biosafety report for the Norwegian Environment Agency says GM foods cannot be declared safe due to major gaps in the science, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Indeed research clearly indicates harmful and adverse impacts to both health and environment. But Monsanto insists that GMOs are just as safe as, or even safer than, conventional crops.
GMO study finds 'indications of harmful and adverse effects' Nafeez Ahmed | 15th July 2015 News GMOs Health Norway Food Farming Corporations soya-store-cut.jpg A new biosafety report for the …
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 …
Barring a miracle Marco Rubio is set to be Trumped in the Republican primary tomorrow in Florida, his home state, putting an effective end to his campaign. But it's not for want of support from one of the US's biggest frackers, Devon energy, and its politically active CEO Larry Nichols. And with or without Rubio, Nichols's influence on the red states' energy policy is only going to get bigger.
Meet the Koch-affiliated fracker behind Marco Rubio's energy policy Zachary Boren Greenpeace Energydesk | 15th March 2016 Comment USA Politics Energy Fracking Oil Gas Corporations bye-folks-cut.jpg …
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 …
The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya, while blaming the damage on Gaddafi himself. Since then, the country's water infrastructure - and the suffering of its people - has only deteriorated further.
War crime: NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructure Nafeez Ahmed | 14th May 2015 News Libya Africa Water War Law libya-puddle-water-cut2.jpg The military targeting of civilian …
The plight of Kenya's Sengwer people shows that carbon offsets generated by 'sustainable' forest management are empowering a corporate recolonisation of the South backed by the World Bank against its own guidelines, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Indigenous forest peoples are at risk of genocide while corporations let rip.
World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme 'complicit' in genocidal land grabs Nafeez Ahmed | 20th August 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Forests Climate Change Carbon Finance torched-sengwer-home.png The …
Food and water shortages and sharp price hikes in the necessities of life are driving civil unrest and rebellion across the Middle East and North Africa, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Adding to the problem, many of the afflicted countries are of strategic importance for their oil and gas, putting them on the front line of destabilizing 'counter-terrorism' operations.
Rebellion and hunger - how drought and food scarcity are fanning the flames of war Nafeez Ahmed | 13th May 2015 News Water Food Politics Society Oil Energy Middle East drought-burkina-faso-cut.jpg …
As Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy takes a strong lead in Burma's elections, Nafeez Ahmed warns that the military will remain the real power in the land. And as UK, EU, US, Chinese and Gulf state energy corporations compete to exploit Burma's hydrocarbons, don't expect them to denounce the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya, and anyone else in the way of their oil and gas infrastructure.
Genocide: Burma's Rohingya sacrificed in global scramble for oil and gas Nafeez Ahmed | 13th November 2015 News Burma Energy Oil Gas Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Politics Corporations …
Ice melt in the Arctic Ocean is opening up previously untouched areas to industrial fishing fleets using ecologically risky bottom trawling methods, writes Joe Sandler Clarke. Ecosystems supporting walruses, polar bears, puffins and other sea birds could be stripped bare.
Arctic warming opens pristine ocean to predatory trawling Joe Sandler Clarke Greenpeace Energydesk | 3rd March 2016 News Marine Environment Fishing Climate Change Arctic fishing trawler making its …
Just as the UK's entire renewable energy industry is up in arms against fierce cuts to support for the sector, energy Minister Andrea Leadsom suggested to MPs that the measures were supported by solar firms in her constituency. They beg to differ.
Minister: 'solar companies back support cuts' Joe Sandler Clarke Zachary Boren Greenpeace Energydesk | 25th October 2015 News Politics Energy Renewables Solar Green Economy andrealeadsom-cut.jpg Just …
The world is already experiencing water scarcity driven by over-use, poor land management and climate change, writes Nafeez Ahmed. It's one of the causes of wars and terrorism in the Middle East and beyond, and if we fail to respond to the warnings before us, major food and power shortages will soon afflict large parts of the globe fuelling hunger, insecurity and conflict.
Global water crisis causing failed harvests, hunger, war and terrorism Nafeez Ahmed | 27th March 2015 News Water Farming War Climate Change egypt-irrigation-desert-cut.jpg The world is already …
A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under threat from the rapidly advancing 'palm oil frontier'. Now scientists are calling for the wetland's immediate protection - before it's too late to save it.
Scientists: protect vast Amazon peatland to avoid palm oil 'environmental disaster' Joe Sandler Clarke Greenpeace Energydesk | 23rd March 2017 News Peru Forests Emissions Climate Change Biodiversity …
Impunity reigns in the Amazon, write Joe Sandler Clarke & Sam Cowie, and the indigenous peoples of the forest are the big losers as they suffer repeated killings and land grabs. Big cuts to Funai, the agency meant to protect Brazil's indigenous tribes, have encouraged land barons to expand their land holdings into indigenous territories and murder any who resist.
Brazil: Increase in land killings as political crisis threatens Amazon Joe Sandler Clarke Sam Cowie Greenpeace Energydesk | 7th June 2017 News Indigenous Peoples Brazil Land Grabs Politics Forests …
Governments must shift subsidies and research funding from agro-industrial monoculture to small farmers using 'agroecological' methods, according to the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. And as Nafeez Ahmed notes, her call coincides with a new agroecology initiative within the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.
UN: only small farmers and agroecology can feed the world Nafeez Ahmed | 23rd September 2014 News Food Farming Natural World Un Corporations agroecology-ubc-milpa-cut.jpg Governments must shift …
Critics of new Nature paper on costs of Arctic warming ignore latest science on permafrost methane at everyone's peril.....
Arctic methane catastrophe scenario is based on new empirical observations Nafeez Ahmed | 24th July 2013 News Climate Change permafrost_edited-1.jpg Melting permafrost may release catastophic amounts …
Global warming has been on vacation for a few years, writes Nafeez Ahmed. But that's only because the excess heat - two Hiroshima bombs-worth every second - has been buried in the deep ocean. But within a few years that's set to change, producing a huge decade-long warming surge, focused on the Arctic, that could overwhelm us all.
Coming soon: the 'Big Heat' Nafeez Ahmed | 3rd March 2015 News Climate Change Arctic Science Oceans arctic-sea-ice-nasa-2010-cut.jpg Can the Arctic ice survive the 'Big Heat'? NASA image of the …