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Greenwashing the Tokyo Olympic Games
Greenwashing the Tokyo Olympic Games “The gap between rhetoric and reality is a persistent one when looking at the sustainability of commitments of Olympic Games hosts”. – Martin Müller, European Urban and Regional Studies, 2015 The organisers of the Olympics have always been into appearances and grand theatre. And the International Olympic Committee has always been […]
Monsanto, Big Food, and Big Ag Move to Co-opt the Organic and Regenerative Movement
Monsanto, Big Food, and Big Ag Move to Co-opt the Organic and Regenerative Movement There’s one skill that Big Food and Big Ag corporations have in abundance: taking control of every situation and corrupting it into an opportunity for profit. For example, as consumer interest in the terms “natural” and “sustainable” increased, industrial agribusiness began […]
Investing For The Greenwash Bubble
Investing For The Greenwash Bubble Update: Ironically, this post has been censored by Facebook and other social media co’s, despite it containing no factual errors. Greenwashing, in case you don’t know, is the “disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image”. You know, this sort of thing: This is taken […]
NET ZERO — Everyone, from countries to companies, is talking about it – But what does it really mean?
NET ZERO — Everyone, from countries to companies, is talking about it – But what does it really mean? BEWARE — Turns out that not all Net Zeros are created equal – Some are “greenwashing” with big loopholes to slip through. — ClimateAdam “You see, everyone from countries to companies are announcing their net zero targets. […]
Greenwash
Greenwash An operation of fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil near Chicago, USA [Richard Hurd, Flickr CC BY 2.0] The harm caused by the climate crisis has become undeniable – and terrifying. The floods, storms and raging fires, and the death and displacement they bring, have contributed to a global upwelling of concern and demands on governments to […]
The Net Zero Emissions Lie
The Net Zero Emissions Lie Cutting carbon emissions has become a central focus of countries and companies alike in the past decade. The oil majors are racing to ‘go green, Microsoft has pledged to go ‘carbon negative’, and over 20 nations have either committed to or achieved net-zero carbon targets. For public companies, the incentives to go green are […]
Massachusetts Sues ExxonMobil For Climate Disinformation, Greenwashing
Massachusetts Sues ExxonMobil For Climate Disinformation, Greenwashing Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil today over the company’s misinformation campaign to delay action to address climate change. Attorney General Maura Healey told reporters in a press conference today that “Exxon has fought us every step of the way,” and was “completely uncooperative,” noting that the company failed to comply […]
At Vancouver’s Clean Energy Summit, Nuclear Is Making a Play
At Vancouver’s Clean Energy Summit, Nuclear Is Making a Play Note to ministers from 25 nations: Prepare to be dangerously greenwashed. This week Vancouver is host to a summit of ministers from over 25 countries gathered “to accelerate progress toward a clean energy future.” Created in 2010, the Clean Energy Ministerial describes itself as a “high-level global forum to […]
