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Rising Authoritarianism and Worsening Climate Change Share a Fossil-fueled Secret
By Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine
Around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This backsliding on democracy and “creeping authoritarianism,” as the...
Thousands of Fossil Fuel ‘Observers’ Attended Climate Negotiations: UNFCCC Data 2005-2018 for COP1-COP24
Read time: 12 minsOriginally posted on Climate Investigations Center.
The collection of Global Climate Coalition (GCC) documents we compiled and released this April reveal that...
Campaigners Slam ‘Absurd’ Government Fracking Plans as IPCC Scientists Warn of Climate Crisis
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The Sun on Sunday Attacked for Misleading Climate Change Polling
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Oil And Gas Workers Continue to be Excluded From ‘Just Transition’, Report Shows
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Poor job security was...
‘Twisting Words’: UK Oil Industry and Business Department Using Climate Change Committee to Justify...
The UK’s Business Department and the country’s leading oil and gas industry body have both been accused of citing the Climate Change Committee “out...
Hot Off The Press: Conversations With Real Media
Read time: 1 minDeSmog UK joined up with Media Fund partner Real Media in 2018 to make a series of videos discussing some of...
Environmental and Labor Groups Urge Canada to Support Just Transition
Canada has not provided a transition pathway for its fossil fuel workers to move into other industries, and as global demand for oil and...
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