🔴 NEW | How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

Industrial chicken firms that supply KFC have benefited from financing from the World Bank Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development

📝 Alex Park
#Springmeetings
desmog.com/2024/04/19/dev…

Climate finance experts tell me the UK's decision to 'double count' money as humanitarian aid and climate finance is “problematic” and a “clear deviation from the path to climate justice”.

What has gone wrong with UK climate finance?

A quick🧵...

carbonbrief.org/revealed-uk-do…

Nigel Farage used his not-cancelled speech at NatCon today to complain about 'big politics, big business, and big banks'.

Former trader Farage forgot to mention that the whole conference was organised by a group directly funded by a massive oil company
desmog.com/2024/04/16/nat…

This week, the UK will likely pass a law saying Rwanda is 'safe' to deport asylum seekers to. Meanwhile, I was recently denied boarding on a flight to Rwanda, presumably because of my journalism on the treatment of refugees there. (THREAD) 1/

🔴 NEW | Campaigners Challenge MPs to Cut Ties with Polluting Interests

Activists aim to make it “politically toxic” for elected representatives to associate with coal, oil and gas companies.

📝 Phoebe Cooke
desmog.com/2024/04/15/cam…

You’re supposed to pull these out but the bees love ‘em so I leave them. (Always loved the overlap between idleness and environmentalism )

Always so instructive when
lobbyists back slap in public.

This great find by Rachel Sherrington rounds off DeSmog’s big ag lobby work on cop28 where we saw its PR ops in full swing👇

U.S. Meat Lobby Celebrates
Better Outcome Than Expected after COP28 desmog.com/2024/04/08/us-…

Such good news from Senegal… 🇸🇳

From prisoner to president in 20 days, Senegal’s Diomaye Faye takes office | Elections News | Al Jazeera aje.io/31nlyd via Al Jazeera English

Gosh, this sounds terrible.

Imagine losing 70% of your customers overnight…….

🤔

Or do we think someone might be being slightly economical with the truth?

Let’s dig in!

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🚨 Breaking: Center for Countering Digital Hate has won dismissal on all counts against @ElonMusk's X Corp's outrageous and hypocritical SLAPP suit to silence our research.

This ruling sends a strong message to those who aim at intimidating and silencing independent research.

More from us soon.

Today, the EU Council was supposed to give the final approval on the Nature Restoration Law: it was going to be a celebratory day for Europe's nature.

Instead, the NRL was written off today's agenda, leaving us empty-handed about the climate and biodiversity action we need the

🔴NEW: Court of Appeal Rules Climate Crisis A Matter of ‘Opinion’

'For as long as judges believe they can rule away our collective desire to live and to protect those we love, the situation will only escalate' - Plan B Earth's Tim Crosland for DeSmog 👇

desmog.com/2024/03/19/cou…

🚨 New Publication 🚨

In Nature Food, my co-authors and I critique the methodological and substantive shortcomings of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) roadmap for achieving zero hunger without breaching the 1.5 °C threshold.

🧵 1/17

nature.com/articles/s4301…

🟣What a difference a few days make...

the CHMM will still go ahead but is now delayed by a year (cue: jubilation from the gas boiler lobby)

but the fight's not over yet.

Juliet Phillips @E3G: 'The government must move ahead with laying the legislation as soon as possible'

Our new report, out today, provides the first articulation of a Paris-compliant livestock sector. The findings provide much needed clarity on a key question – what role should the livestock play in meeting the Paris Agreement? Matthew Hayek Paul Behrens Dr. William J. Ripple

🔴NEW🔴

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey Gifted £2,500 Gala Ticket by Fossil Fuel Firm

My latest for DeSmog

desmog.com/2024/03/12/lib…

What will the SEC's new climate rules mean for Big Ag? So far, not much. My latest for DeSmog: desmog.com/2024/03/08/the…

🟣 NEW 🟣

Oil and Gas Companies Want You to Think They Care About Women — but It’s Just PR

✍️Analysis by Ellen Ormesher Emily J Gertz Kathryn Clare & Cartie Werthman

#IWD2024

desmog.com/2024/03/08/oil…

This is such an amazing example of the power of the pen & a well phrased question in the House of Lords - finally defeating a campaign of Disinformation against #heatpumps
Hooray for common sense Claire Coutinho MP 👏

🔴NEW🔴

The UK's clean heating policy WILL go ahead -- despite ‘disgraceful’ lobbying from the gas boiler lobby

A small🧵on the latest heat pump drama... 👇

desmog.com/2024/03/07/uk-…