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Disinformation regarding climate change has been seriously damaging efforts to combat it for many decades. Making accurate judgments can be challenging for people and policymakers when information is inaccurate or misleading. Therefor we have put together a selection of materials to aid in your continued education.
Climate Deniers Exploit Endangered Whales In Bid To Kill Offshore Wind
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A coalition of fossil fuel-allied groups is fighting offshore wind with shameless hypocrisy, muddled messaging and greenwashing.
PUBLIC MISINFORMATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE HIGH IN INDIA: SURVEY
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33% of Indians surveyed say that “the main reason our bills are increasing is due to climate and net-zero policies”
HSBC climate change adverts banned by UK watchdog
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The UK's advertising regulator has banned two HSBC advertisements for being "misleading" about the company's work to tackle climate change.
FH;P Climate show
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The Climate Show presented the results of the Climate Semester - Utopias for the Present in the form of a digital exhibition and as an online event on 17.07.2020. Together at the FH Potsdam, in the summer semester 2020, the climate semester, the challenges of the climate crisis were put into perspective and transdisciplinary approaches and viable options for action for the here and now were developed.
An activist group is spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America
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Roger Houser's ranching business was getting squeezed. The calves he raises in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley were selling for about the same price they had a few years earlier, while costs for essentials like fuel and fertilizer kept going up. But Houser found another use for his 500 acres.
The Birth of Climate Denial
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COP27: Sharp rise in fossil fuel industry delegates at climate summit
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Google let Daily Wire advertise on ‘climate change is a hoax’ searches
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Exclusive: Data shared by Center for Countering Digital Hate shows Ben Shapiro’s site bought ads on climate crisis denial search terms
Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows
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Investigation into Verra carbon standard finds most are ‘phantom credits’ and may worsen global heating
FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY SEEKS TO EXPAND FREE SPEECH FOR CORPORATIONS AND LIMIT IT FOR CITIZENS
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As oil companies push to criminalize dissent, they’re also making the case that climate denialism is protected speech, not fraudulent advertising.
World Bank criticised over climate crisis spending
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Oxfam research suggests up to 40% of bank’s reported climate-related spending cannot be accounted for
How Putin and Friends Stalled Climate Progress
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A handful of powerful world leaders rallied around Russia and undercut global cooperation.
Inside the Saudi Strategy to Keep the World Hooked on Oil
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The kingdom is working to keep fossil fuels at the center of the world economy for decades to come by lobbying, funding research and using its diplomatic muscle to obstruct climate action.
How the regulatory tide is turning against greenwashing brands in 2023
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Legal experts and regulatory bodies explain how brands will find it more difficult to greenwash their products in 2023.
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs Asset Management for Failing to Follow its Policies and Procedures Involving ESG Investments
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. (GSAM) for policies and procedures failures involving two mutual funds and one separately managed account strategy marketed as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investments. To settle the charges, GSAM agreed to pay a $4 million penalty.
The New Soldiers in Propane’s Fight Against Climate Action: Television Stars
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An industry group is spending millions of dollars to push back against efforts to move heating away from oil and gas.
The Texas Group Waging a National Crusade Against Climate Action
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The Texas Public Policy Foundation is shaping laws, running influence campaigns and taking legal action in a bid to promote fossil fuels.
Oil Executives Privately Contradicted Public Statements on Climate, Files Show
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Exxon Scientists Predicted Global Warming, Even as Company Cast Doubts, Study Finds
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Starting in the 1970s, scientists working for the oil giant made remarkably accurate projections of just how much burning fossil fuels would warm the planet.
World Bank President, Dogged by Climate Questions, Will Step Down Early
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David Malpass, under fire for months by critics who accused him of climate denialism, said he would resign in June, a year before his term ends.
How greenwashing fools us
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It’s hard to see through misleading claims, even for those who care about the environment. Be very skeptical.
How dark money groups led Ohio to redefine gas as ‘green energy’
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Conservative groups helped Ohio lawmakers push the narrative that the fuel is clean, documents show. They are taking their campaign to other states.
Aviation giant KLM to face legal action in first major challenge to airline industry ‘greenwashing’
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Fossil fuel sector spent millions on ads to influence public during Cop27
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The Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) coalition has revealed the scale of paid advertising climate disinformation detected around the United Nations climate conference (Cop27) in Sharm el-Sheikh.
Meet the man fueling clean energy opposition in the Midwest
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Kevon Martis and a group of fossil fuel-funded allies have led a decades-long campaign to sow fear and misinformation about renewable energy. It’s working.