Fossil fuel funding also tends to skew research toward the industry’s preferred #technologicalsolutions, such as carbon capture & storage, away from phasing out oil & gas, according to Stephens.
“The industry research is not necessarily directly impacting the integrity of specific research studies,” she said. “It’s more orienting academic research towards certain kinds of responses to the climate crisis, which are really not transformative at all, they’re actually reinforcing the status quo.”