As fashion firms flaunt green claims of “recycled,” “sustainable,” and “responsibly sourced” materials on labels and scorecards, a new report reveals top brands have actually increased their use of synthetic…
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A new report, ‘Big Oil in Court – The latest trends in climate litigation against fossil fuel companies,’ by Oil Change International and Zero Carbon Analytics, has found that legal pressure…
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Following backlash from Nobel laureates, world leaders, and climate change experts, the latest draft of the UN Pact for the Future has brought back wording on fossil fuels. Back in…
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World Leaders, Nobel Laureates Urge Inclusion of Fossil Fuels in UN Pact for the Future
Almost 80 world leaders and Nobel Prize winners have condemned the removal of “fossil fuels” from the latest draft of the UN Pact for the Future. In an open letter…
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Earth Sees Hottest Day in History, UN Calls for Turbo-Charged Fossil Fuel Phaseout
Last week, Earth experienced its hottest day in recent history. According to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), on Monday, 22nd July, temperatures reached a daily global average of…
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Oil Change International has released its Big Oil Reality Check report in collaboration with over 200 organisations worldwide. It outlines that fossil fuel companies’ climate pledges and plans are “dangerously inadequate” and put the world on…
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The recently published Banking on Climate Chaos report, now in its 15th edition, analyses the financial commitments—lending and underwriting of debt and equity issuances—from the world’s 60 biggest banks to over 4,200 fossil fuel…
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Research from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has found that this year, there has been a record-breaking increase in the CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of…
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‘The Climate Damages Tax’ report, backed by over 100 climate organisations worldwide, including Greenpeace, Stamp Out Poverty, Power Shift Africa and Christian Aid, forecasts that taxing fossil fuel majors in the OECD…
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Carbon Majors: 80% of CO2 emissions linked to just 57 producers since Paris Agreement
New analysis from the Carbon Majors project, a database of fossil fuel production data, has revealed that in the years following the Paris Agreement, 80 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions…