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Just days after Alberta’s ruling United Conservative Party voted to abandon its net zero goals and recognize carbon dioxide as an “essential nutrient” supporting life on Earth, Premier Danielle Smith threatened a legal fight or constitutional challenge…

More than 1,700 oil, gas and coal lobbyists are registered attendees of this year’s international climate summit, currently underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, to try to persuade the world that the fossil fuel industry can be part of the climate solution.  The PR…

A Hungarian “climate institute” attending COP29 is an offshoot of an Orbán-backed think tank funded by the state oil and gas company.  Nine delegates from the Climate Policy Institute (CPI) were down to attend the United Nations climate summit, now in…

The fracking executive selected by President-elect Donald Trump to run the U.S. Department of Energy, Chris Wright, has called the concept of carbon pollution “outrageous” and says that the influential climate crisis denier Bjorn Lomborg is a…

A video of this interview can be seen by registering for the Climate Consciousness Summit 2024, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog.  Building cases on laws she wrote into the statute books 30 years ago, Melinda Janki is deploying every…

BAKU – A carbon capture and storage (CCS) company owned by an oilfield giant was given the opportunity to address the UK’s pavilion at COP29, DeSmog can reveal.  The firm in question, SLB Capturi, is 80 percent owned by the world’s largest offshore…

BAKU – Hundreds of lobbyists for industrial agriculture have shown up at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, new analysis shows.  This year representatives are back from some of the world’s largest agribusiness companies – such as Brazilian…

JBS – the world’s largest meat company, with a net revenue of $3.1 billion in the second quarter of 2024 alone – is seeking more funding to combat climate change.  The company’s global CEO Gilberto Tomazoni complained in September that “currently,…

BAKU – The CEO of Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, has quietly gained access to the flagship COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, DeSmog can reveal. The UN’s official attendee list indicates that Christopher O’Shea is attending the…

Steven Guilbeault came to the COP29 climate change negotiations in Azerbaijan ready to make what the federal Liberal government deemed a “major” announcement.  The Canadian minister of environment promised a financing platform worth more than $2 billion…