How agricultural interests are teaming up with big oil to take advantage of tax credits meant to fight climate change—and what the backlash can tell us about the future of climate politics.
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Posted inFalse Solutions, International climate negotiations
COP29 Kicks Off with a “Bad Process and Worse Outcome” on Carbon Market Rules
The COP29 presidency forced through rules for carbon markets on the first day of the conference, ignoring concerns and setting what some negotiators called a “horrible precedent” for future negotiations.
Posted inAdvertising and PR, False Solutions
Subpoenaed Documents Reveal Oil Companies’ Carbon Capture Ads Don’t Match Its Internal Projections
In advertising over the past several years, Exxon has pushed hard on carbon capture as a climate solution and touted its experience with the technology. But newly-revealed documents and whistleblower interviews with employees show that when it comes to actually implementing carbon capture, Exxon may have no idea what it’s doing.
Posted inFalse Solutions, North America
Manchin’s Inflation Reduction Act: What’s Good and Bad for Climate
A breakdown of what’s in the IRA
Posted inFalse Solutions, Oceania
As Australia Heads to the Polls, a Look at Greenwashing & CSS
Australia’s “gas-fired” pandemic recovery, enabled by CCS and “clean” hydrogen
Posted inAcademia, Documents, False Solutions
BP Emails with Jason Bordoff at Columbia University regarding National Petroleum Council’s CCUS Study
Bordoff providing input on NPC’s study, particularly with respect to how it was framing CCUS as a pathway to delivering affordable energy, which he argues it is not.