Big meat’s big PR investments are blocking climate action
As big oil and gas PR tactics remain under scrutiny, big meat’s lobby flies under the radar and deals some serious blows to the race to decarbonise, writes reporter Nour Ghantous.
10 July 2023
10 July 2023
As big oil and gas PR tactics remain under scrutiny, big meat’s lobby flies under the radar and deals some serious blows to the race to decarbonise, writes reporter Nour Ghantous.
With new research revealing that 218 cruise ships emitted four times as much sulphur as one billion cars last year, data journalist Polly Bindman compares the carbon footprint of a cruise holiday with flying to a similar destination.
US oil extraction plans are set to release five times more CO₂ than remains in the country’s 1.5°C carbon budget, reports senior data journalist Nick Ferris. Ferris uses exclusive oil fields data from Energy Monitor’s parent company, GlobalData, to map where most of the remaining US oil and gas reserves are and identifies 300 ‘discovered' oil and gas fields whose commercial viability is still to be determined.
Commercial aviation is concentrated at congested hubs. Electrification will unlock the potential of small airports, decarbonise regional transportation and transform rural airports into renewable energy hubs, writes managing editor Justin Gerdes.
The Federal Constitutional Court ruled in favour of conservative lawmaker Thomas Heilmann of the Christian Democratic Union, who argued in an injunction that the government needed more time to deliberate on the bill.
Chinese overseas investment in transition minerals projects were linked to 102 allegations of human rights and environmental abuses between 2021 and 2022, according to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.
Piclo has completed the first end-to-end transactions of flexibility services for the UK ESO’s new Local Constraint Market in Scotland.
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