"The Dark Secrets Behind Big Oil’s Climate Pledges" [1]
"Oil companies and the banks that finance them are making empty promises – and getting credit for them too".
Source: Floodlight [2], 11/04/2021
"Oil companies and the banks that finance them are making empty promises – and getting credit for them too".
"The Biden administration’s plan to reduce methane emissions announced yesterday may spark state clashes even as it was called "extremely costly" and drew criticism for allegedly not doing enough to cut oil and gas pollution."
"Some of the world’s biggest financial institutions on Wednesday vowed to mobilize trillions of dollars to help shift the global economy toward cleaner energy as negotiators at the United Nations climate summit struggled with the question of how to pay for the enormous costs of climate change."
"A coalition of 18 countries, plus dozens of banks and other institutions, will pledge to phase out coal-fired power plants domestically and to end funding for international coal projects, according to the British government, which struck the deal at a global climate summit."
"Negotiators at COP26 are unlikely to deal with the challenges posed by climate migration, a failure that some experts say shows “a lack of political will.”"
Running updates of news on COP26 climate talks from New York Times.
"A month after a Southern California offshore oil spill, environmental advocates said Tuesday that they plan to sue the federal government over the failure to review and update plans for platforms off the coast."
"Across the country, anglers have watched as droughts, floods, and high temperatures batter the rivers they depend on. Now, they’re calling for swift action."
"Anyone who’s spent more than a few minutes online is likely acutely aware of the seemingly endless ocean of climate change denial content swirling across social media. But the vast misinformation maelstrom is largely being churned out by less than a dozen publishers."
"More than 100 countries have pledged to end deforestation by 2030 to combat global heating at the UN climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. But environmentalists, skeptical of the commitment, say more needs to be done to end the so-called "chainsaw massacre" of the world's forests."
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[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/04/dark-secrets-big-oil-climate-pledges-greenwashing
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-epa-methane-rule-hits-energy-pipelines-politics
[4] https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-epa-methane-rule-hits-energy-from-pipelines-to-politics/
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-summit-turns-its-focus-contentious-question-who-pays
[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/climate/climate-summit-finance-glasgow.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/poland-and-17-other-countries-announce-major-deal-end-coal
[8] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/world/uk-fossil-fuel-coal-cop26.html
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[10] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02112021/climate-refugees-international-law-cop26/
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/cop26-live-updates
[12] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/03/world/cop26-glasgow-climate-summit
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[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/10-facebook-publishers-push-nearly-70-climate-denial-content
[18] https://gizmodo.com/10-facebook-publishers-responsible-for-nearly-70-of-cl-1847983343
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/zero-deforestation-commitment-empty-promises-or-workable-plan
[20] https://www.dw.com/en/zero-deforestation-commitment-empty-promises-or-a-workable-plan/a-59700862
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