The Green Transition Part 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism
By Robert Raymond, Shareable
What is the dark side of the energy transition — particularly for the Global South and Indigenous communities?
Tag: greenwashing
Our Research Shows That Big Oil’s Plans for Combating Climate Crisis Are Bunk
By Robert Brecha, Gaurav Ganti, The Conversation
Influential oil company scenarios for combating climate change don't actually meet the Paris Agreement goals, our new analysis shows.
Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction
By Stella Levantesi, DeSmog Blog
Understanding how opponents of climate action employ these discourses of delay is essential to recognizing climate disinformation and misinformation, Arena said, and ultimately to disrupting it.
The unequal university will never be ‘sustainable’
By Ana Diaz Vidal, Clara Freudenberg, Isabelle Darmon, Undisciplined Environments
Only by attending to inequalities can universities do away with the carbon fetish and work for actual sustainability. University staff and students, embarked on a UK-wide strike against staff exploitation and rising costs, need to make this point loud and clear!
Shell needs to be dismantled. Here’s how
By Marie-Sol Reindl, Open Democracy
Shell might believe its empire is too big to fall, but so did the absolutist monarchs at one point. So let's continue imagining how Shell could, and eventually will, meet its end.
How the PR Industry Has Helped Big Oil Transform the Way We Think About the Environment
By Stella Levantesi, DeSmog Blog
For decades, fossil fuel companies have been using PR firms to polish, reinvent, and fabricate their image; protect their reputation; and greenwash their activities, in ways that we are still trying to fully understand.
Marketing the planet: The financialization of nature
By Helena Paul, Radical Ecological Democracy
How did we reach this precarious point in our collective existence, and more importantly, can we craft a clear and secure path out of this mess?
Over 450 Climate Scientists Say Advertising Industry Must End ‘Complicity’ in Climate Crisis
By Nick Cunningham, DeSmog Blog
On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis.
Copy-Paste Reporting
By B, The Honest Sorcerer
Fossil fuel companies often reach for the tools of greenwashing, but this particular instance unintentionally drops a tiny hint on a completely different story in the background.
How Wealth Inequality Fuels the Climate Emergency: George Monbiot & Scientist Kevin Anderson on COP26
By Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh, George Monbiot, Kevin Anderson, Democracy Now
Let's just stop producing this great tidal wave of consumer goods. And let’s find other ways of measuring quality of life...
Reflections on tsunamis, determination and a week in Glasgow
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
And so I leave Glasgow not optimistic or pessimistic, but infinitely more determined. And feeling like the power, the flow, the surge of Friday and Saturday’s tsunamis will carry us forward. I feel it at my back, I feel it in my stomach, and I will feel it forever.
An unjust transition: Energy, colonialism and extractivism in occupied Western Sahara
By Joanna Allan, Mahmoud Lemaadel, Hamza Lakhal, Transnational Institute
While an end to the Moroccan occupation and full decolonization are integral to a Saharawi just transition, the SADR government’s ability to ensure popular sovereignty over Western Sahara’s energy resources will also be of fundamental importance.