Tag: Greenwashing

Oil & Gas

Secret Files reveal how UN Climate Advisers ‘greenwashed’ for BP

The PR firm advising the UN on climate change campaigns has been accused by US lawmakers of helping BP “greenwash” its fossil fuel investments, openDemocracy can reveal.

Exclusive: US Inquiry unearths pro-Gas PR Strategy produced by Firm “At Core of global Climate Effort”

Internal BP documents released to the US House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee and published last week show Brunswick created a strategy in 2017 or 2018 to help “reframe the conversation on gas”, “protect BP’s ‘advantaged gas position’” and “secure support for gas as a natural low carbon fuel”.

The news has sparked fresh concerns over Brunswick’s work for both Big Oil and the UN, which openDemocracy revealed this month.

Source: Secret Files reveal how UN Climate Advisers ‘greenwashed’ for BP

Oil & Gas

House report on big oil greenwashing shows ‘Big Tobacco Playbook All Over Again’ – Pearls and Irritations

Exxon Mobil Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

“These companies know their climate pledges are inadequate, but are prioritising Big Oil’s record profits over the human costs of climate change,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney.

Source: House report on big oil greenwashing shows ‘Big Tobacco Playbook All Over Again’ – Pearls and Irritations

Climate Change

How COP27 nearly foundered as fossil fuel lobbyists were busy greenwashing

Cop27 greenwashing

The COP27 climate change conference has been and gone. The ambitions were modest and the outcomes even more so. The large number of fossil fuel lobbyists in attendance did little to buyo the mood of impending doom. Story courtesy aapX.

Source: How COP27 nearly foundered as fossil fuel lobbyists were busy greenwashing

CO2 Emmissions

‘Toxic cover-up’: 6 lessons Australia can draw from the UN’s scathing report on greenwashing

The United Nations this week slammed corporate “greenwashing” and said organisations cannot claim to be net-zero while supporting fossil fuel projects.

Source: ‘Toxic cover-up’: 6 lessons Australia can draw from the UN’s scathing report on greenwashing

ALP Government,

Greenwashed: how the new “Middle Arm” fossil fuel hub was rebranded green

Darwin’s Middle Arm project is about subsidising fossil fuels, not “clean energy” and “environmentally sustainable manufacturing.

They have dubbed it “green”, about “clean energy industries” and “environmentally sustainable manufacturing”; yet Darwin’s Middle Arm Sustainable Development Precinct is all about subsidising fossil fuels. Callum Foote reports. 

Labor has announced a $1.5 billion Budget hand-out for the Middle Arm ‘Sustainable Development Precinct’ in the port of Darwin.

Public subsidies for fossil fuels already run at a heady clip of $10bn a year, if you include fuel subsidies. And despite all the greenwashing and tricky language over the development of a second port for Darwin, the Albanese government has just slotted the fossil fuel industry another $1.5bn, at least.

Source: Greenwashed: how the new “Middle Arm” fossil fuel hub was rebranded green