Brazil’s environmental governance is under threat – and Lula is siding with oil industry (The Guardian)

Politicians reviled environmental minister Marina Silva in the senate this week, but new legislation is fuelling the fire.

Next year’s presidential election seems to be weighing on president Lula’s mind more than November’s Cop30 climate summit in Belém.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/31/brazil-environmental-movemen-lula-oil-industry

#brazil #brasil #brazilie #Environment #Amazon #rainforest #fossil_fuel #deforestation #oil_exploration #lula

The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear an Evan Davis podcast about heat pumps? (The Guardian)

The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival.

Why? The answer is simple: economic power.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/01/consistently-appeasing-platforming-right-bbc-undermines-own-survival

#bbc #media #journalism #journalist #news #press #lobby #thinktank #censorship #fossil_fuel #climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #media_bias

#fossil_fuel

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/22/oil-companies-emissions-goals-report

“We should be ashamed...We are world-leading fossil fuel exporters and the only developed country that’s still a global land clearing hotspot and it still isn’t against the law to destroy places where koalas live."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/21/global-heating-land-clearing-and-the-extinction-vortex-the-fight-to-save-australias-koalas
#koalas #NSW #logging #fossil_fuel #Sydney

#fossil_fuel cause millions of excess heat deaths before the end of the century

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/20/emissions-connected-to-top-oil-and-gas-firms-may-cause-millions-of-heat-deaths-by-2100-study-finds

Tar Sands Companies Underreported Pollution Levels By Up To 6300 Per Cent - Environmental Defence
#fossil_fuel
https://environmentaldefence.ca/2024/01/25/tar-sands-companies-underreported-pollution-levels-by-up-to-6300-per-cent/

An odd silence - at the end of humanity’s hottest year…yet (The Crucial Years)

Because the most important thing that happened this year was the heat.

And yet you really wouldn’t know it from reading the wrap-ups of the year’s news now appearing on one website after another.

In geological terms, we’re warming at hellish pace.

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-odd-silence

#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #heatwaves #extreme_weather #flooding #fossil_fuel #co2 #media #news #news_cycle #journalism

World will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say (The Guardian)

“Not only did governments fail to stem global warming, the rate of global warming actually accelerated.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/29/world-will-look-back-at-2023-as-year-humanity-exposed-its-inability-to-tackle-climate-crisis

#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #energy #energy_transition #carbon_footprint #global_warming #fossil_fuel #extreme_weather #storms #floodings #flash_floods #forest_fires #wildfires #heat_waves #cop28

Many have hoped for more decisive action against climate change at the UN climate summit in Dubai. Still, all almost 200 countries represented agreed for the first time on a transition away from fossil fuels. See http://www.neat-news.com/2023/12/347.php. #climate #fossil_fuel

that's what I call #fossil_fuel

Fossil fuels kill more people than Covid. Why are we so blind to the harms of oil and gas? (The Guardian)

Were we able to perceive afresh the sheer scale of fossil fuel impact we might be horrified, but because this is an old problem too many don’t see it as a problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/28/fossil-fuels-kill-more-people-than-covid-why-are-we-so-blind-to-the-harms-of-oil-and-gas

#fossil_fuel #oil #gas #exxonmobil #suncor #tar_sands #pollution #air_pollution #health #climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #renewables #energy #energy_transition

Danske Bank Quits New Fossil Fuel Financing

#Denmark’s biggest #bank has declared an end to #fossil_fuel financing, after concluding that 99.9% of its #carbonFootprint comes from financed #GHGemissions

https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/01/23/danske-bank-quits-new-fossil-fuel-financing/

#JusStopOil #KillCoal #NoNewCoal #climateChaos #ClimateEmegency #LeaveItInTheGround

Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows (The Guardian)

(...) The forest carbon offsets approved by the world’s leading provider and used by Disney, Shell, Gucci and other big corporations are largely worthless. (...)

#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #co2 #carbon #carbon_offset #verra #dinsey #shell #gucci #rainforest #deforestation #fossil_fuel #carbon_credit

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe