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7 December 2023
Trojan Horsepower
Formula 1 and the Saudi oil lobby: a tie-up between petrolheads and petrodollars is more than just an exercise in ‘soft power’
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13 November 2023
‘Get Out of Jail Free’
How plastics offsetting is giving industry a licence to pollute
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9 October 2023
‘Blueprint for disaster’
An ambitious plan to re-engineer the carbon market could play havoc with net zero goals and raises questions about human rights
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13 July 2023
Revolt of the South Pole penguins
Carbon offsetting’s ‘unicorn’ wants to be an ultra-ethical social enterprise. Behind the scenes its deals with oil giants and authoritarian rulers are stirring dissent
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31 May 2023
‘This is plunder’: Illegal quarries threaten one of Africa’s fastest vanishing forests
Sierra Leone is on the climate change frontline. Its defences are on sale to the highest bidder
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28 April 2023
Eni chased ‘profits at any cost’ to fuel Pakistan energy crisis
Eni cited supply issues to divert gas shipments from Pakistan—and made half a billion dollars selling the fuel elsewhere, leaving the crisis-hit country burning coal instead.
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20 January 2023
‘They came at night’: Armed men at Disney forest project razed farmers’ homes
Coffee growers say Peru authorities demolished houses on a conservation site generating millions of dollars in carbon credits for US entertainment giant
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18 January 2023
The Carbon Con
The world’s biggest companies, from Netflix to Ben & Jerry’s, are pouring billions into an offsetting industry whose climate claims appear increasingly at odds with reality
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12 December 2022
Total’s Congo offsetting project ‘snatched our land’
Farmers say oil giant’s tree-planting scheme has barred them from their fields and threatens livelihoods.
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16 November 2022
BP’s latest dirty secret? An oil terminal polluting the Red Sea for decades
Just across the water from the COP27 summit, a plant recently owned by BP is pumping contaminated water into the ocean—and has been doing so for decades
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31 October 2022
Mines, pipelines, oil rigs: What HSBC’s ‘sustainable finance’ really pays for
HSBC has committed to contribute up to $1 trillion in sustainable financing and investment by 2030. But billions of dollars being counted towards this target are in fact helping to fuel the climate crisis
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