#fossil fuel lobbyists

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

They are trying to control the narrative while choking us with high prices and literally with polluted air.

#climate change denial #fossil fuel lobbyists #big oil

[bumblebeeappletree]

‘My one message for African leaders at COP27 is that we do not need fossil fuels on the African continent’ — Some African leaders and fossil fuel lobbyists are using COP27 as an opportunity to push oil and gas in Africa. Kenyan environmental activist Eric Njuguna explains why that’s so troubling.

This video was created in collaboration with Nature's Newsroom.

#Earth #Environment #ClimateCrisis #NowThis

#now this earth #now this #solarpunk #cop27 #Africa #fossil fuels #oil #fossil fuel lobbyists #gas #Eric Njuguna #environmental activist #climate crisis #climate chaos #climate change #global warming #global heating #Nature's Newsroom #Youtube

[fashionlandscapeblog]

There are over 600 fossil fuel lobbyists at Cop 27 Climate Summit, that’s more than the combined delegations from the world’s 10 most climate-impacted countries. Dirty fossil fuel money & influence should be nowhere near this climate conference - new fossil fuels must stay firmly in the ground - Caroline Lucas, Green MP.

#cop27 climate summit #cop27 #climate summit #climate lobby #lobbyists #oil companies #fossil fuel lobbyists #climate change #oil and gas industry #climate impact #climate politics

[intersection-of-art-and-science]

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Please sign the petition if you can!!

(Here’s the link to Alaina’s linktree which provides additional links to other important causes.)

#no more cop outs #Alaina Wood #COP28 #climate change #polluter pays principle #science #ecology #environmental science #nature #fossil fuels #fossil fuel lobbyists #1.5 degrees #2 degrees #UN climate conference #hottest hear in record #carbon dioxide #eco anxiety #eco activism

[tornadoquest]

Tornado Quest Top Science Links For January 14 - 21, 2023 #science #weather #climate #climatechange #drought #astronomy

Photo by Stein Egil Liland via Pexels.com Greetings everyone! I hope everyone’s new year is getting off to a good start. This week, we’ll continue our winter weather safety information. There are many interesting science links to check out including a link on a January tornado outbreak, so let’s get started. Here’s an interesting concept. A nuclear rocket that is designed to travel from Earth…

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#2022 #astronomy #atmospheric dust #california #climate #climatechange #drought #drought monitor #dust #fossil fuel #fossil fuel lobbyists #greenhouse gases #health #mental health #meteorological winter #meteorology #natural disasters #NOAA #ptsd #public health #science #social media #space travel #spaceship #tornado #tornadoes #tumblr #twitter #us drought monitor #weather

[thoughtlessarse]

The number of fossil fuel and petrochemical industry lobbyists has increased by more than a third at UN talks to agree the first global treaty to cut plastic pollution, analysis shows. Most plastic is made from fossil fuels via a chemical process known as cracking, and 196 lobbyists from both industries are at the UN talks in Ottawa, Canada, where countries are attempting to come to an agreement to curb plastic production as part of a treaty to cut global plastic waste, according to analysis by the Center for International Environmental Law (Ciel). The 196 lobbyists registered for the talks represent a 37% increase from the 143 lobbyists registered at the last talks, in Nairobi. This in turn was a 36% increase on the previous year’s number. Increased plastic production is a major part of the fossil fuel industry’s plans for the future, and any attempts to curb production, such as those being discussed at the UN talks, are an obvious threat to their profits. According to Carbon Tracker, BP expects plastics to represent 95% of net growth in oil demand from 2020 to 2040, and the International Energy Agency estimates plastic demand will make up 45% of growth for oil and gas mining to 2040. Fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists are also gaining greater access to sessions with member states to push their agenda, according to Ciel. They outnumber the delegates from the European Union, and there are three times more fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists than independent scientists from the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastic Treaty.

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#canada #un ottawa plastic pollution intergovernmental negotiating committee #more fossil fuel lobbyists #plastic pollution #environment #health #capitalism

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#climate denial #fossil fuels #big oil lobbyists #right-wing propaganda

[wewantclimateactionnow]

"The final outcomes demonstrate that, despite the thousands who were there to advocate for climate justice, it was the fossil fuel lobby that had most influence. As a climate justice scholar, I am deeply worried about the processes at COPs, especially given next year’s destination: Dubai. It remains to be seen what happens with the loss and damage fund, but time is running out and watered down commitments on emissions are at this stage deeply unjust and frankly dangerous."

#jail climate criminals #climate change #climate crisis #fossil fuel industry #fossil industry lobbyists #big oil #cambio climático #changement climatique #we want climate action now #cop27 #klimawandel #klimakatastrophe #climate change denial

[stevemaclellan]

Big Oil is spending more money now than ever before on elaborate, deceptive public relations strategies to thwart climate policy, a PR expert told a United States congressional hearing, as freshly released internal emails revealed how fossil executives watered down the language of their climate commitments, mocked activists, and derided Americans in general.

“The U.S. oil and gas sector has always pushed for policies that allow for new fossil fuel expansion, and against policies that would reduce demand,” expert witness Christine Arena, former vice president at Edelman, told a U.S. House Natural Resources Committee hearing, held September 14 to investigate how PR firms help spread climate disinformation.

“But what has changed recently is the intensity of the industry’s pursuits, and the vast resources it deploys through public relations and lobbying efforts meant to crush potential regulatory obstacles in its path.”

None of the PR firms invited to the hearing showed up, reports DeSmog Blog, but Arena—who now researches and exposes fossil industry obfuscation—offered some insight into their activities, which she said have expanded beyond traditional marketing practices.

#environment #world #fakenews #lobbyists #fossil fuels

[filosofablogger]

Playing Both Ends Against The Middle

I was thoroughly disgusted, but not surprised by the latest from Judd Legum et al at Popular Information about the fossil fuel industry’s latest attempts to keep themselves afloat while killing the rest of us.  Read on … 1500 environmental lobbyists are double-dealing with the fossil fuel industry By Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, and Rebecca Crosby 6 July 2023 Hiring a lobbyist is about…

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#environmental lobbyists #F Minus #fossil fuel industry #greed and wealth #Judd Legum of Popular Information #Mississippi River Delta

[usauthoritarianism]

#USA #us ball #USABALL #meme #countryballs #memes #country #corruption #the west #the state #liberal democracy #neoliberalism #working class #inequality #politics #capitalism #lobbying #gerrymandering #government #federal government #hehehe serious #why #imperialism #us imperialism #military industrial complex #aipac #lobbyists #government corruption #climate justice #fossil fuels

[bumblebeeappletree]

There are 600+ fossil fuel delegates at COP27 in Egypt — here’s how the ‘climate criminals’ are getting into the conference

This video was created in collaboration with Nature's Newsroom.

#Earth #Environment #ClimateCrisis #NowThis

#now this earth #now this #solarpunk #COP27 #egypt #fossil fuels #fossil fuel delegates #climate criminals #Nature's Newsroom #climate crisis #climate change #climate chaos #Aderonke Ige #fossil fuel lobbyists #paris agreement #Youtube

[probablyasocialecologist]

Capitalism won’t deliver the energy transition fast enough . . .  There’s too much to do, and given the urgency and the need to get the solution right, this isn’t a task for your favourite ESG-focused portfolio manager or the tech bros. The sheer scale of the physical infrastructure that must be revamped, demolished or replaced is almost beyond comprehension. Governments, not BlackRock, will have to lead this new Marshall Plan. And keep doing it. The western nations that did so much of the damage will have to finance the transition in the developing world — it is astonishing that this idea is still debated. Massive deficit spending will be necessary, not a new ETF. For all the cleantech advances and renewable deployment in recent decades, fossil fuels’ share of total global energy use was 86 per cent in 2000 and 82 per cent last year.

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Either we ignore the consensus of the world’s best scientists and accept an ever-deteriorating climate, or we upend a multitrillion-dollar fossil fuel-based energy system created over decades. For obvious reasons it would be better to decarbonise and clean the energy system, avoiding the trauma of a ever-heating world, while trying to manage the political fallout. But powerful petrostates such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE — in charge of this year’s COP climate conference — won’t go quietly. The transition could put weak petrostates like Iraq in peril. Big Oil lobbyists will fight tooth and nail to stop change and influence elections. Saying the geopolitics of the energy transition will be volatile seems like an understatement.

#climate change #fossil fuels #from the Financial Times no less

[papasmoke]

the main thing you've gotta remember about our ruling class is that they are by and large very stupid short sighted selfish people who tend to reward other very stupid short sighted selfish people which is why the EPA's upper echelons can end up getting filled with suits so air headed and greed driven that the agency doesn't even stop for a second to consider not legalizing the chevron fuel that is guaranteed to give everyone on earth cancer over a long enough time frame because not green lighting it might negatively impact their future career prospects as lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry

[acti-veg]

Tempting as it is to turn away, we simply cannot afford to ignore this sector. A remarkably wide and intense range of impacts – from global-scale habitat destruction to the mass slaughter of predators, river pollution, air pollution, dead zones at sea, antibiotic resistance and greenhouse gas emissions – reveal livestock farming, alongside fossil fuels, as one of the two most destructive industries on Earth.

The chances of a reasoned conversation across the divide are approximately zero. That’s not an accident. It’s a result of decades of the meat industry’s tobacco-style tactics and manufactured culture wars. Clever messaging triggers men who are obsessed by (and anxious about) their masculinity, generating paranoia over “feminisation” and a loss of dominance. The industry amplifies popular but false claims about livestock healing the land and drawing down more greenhouse gases than it produces. These efforts are reinforced by a tidal wave of disinformation from far-right influencers on social media. While many people have now become aware of how the fossil fuel industry has deceived us, there’s less recognition of the even grimmer game played by the livestock industry.

This came to a head at Cop28, which was meant to be the first climate summit at which the impacts of the food system were properly considered. But by the time 120 meat and dairy lobbyists had done their worst, nothing meaningful came of it.

#vegan #articles #environment #sources #george monbiot #to add

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#climate crisis #fossil fuels #big oil #Republican lobbyists #corporate greed #pollution