Mastodawn

“The top investment officer of the nation’s largest teachers’ pension fund actively dissuaded state workers from divesting from underperforming and ecologically devastating #fossil_fuel investments — then went on to buy and sell more than $1 million in oil and gas stocks,”
#pensionFunds #california #FossilFuel
https://www.levernews.com/the-pension-chief-betting-on-oil-while-california-burns/?utm_medium=newsletter-email&utm_campaign=newsletter-article&ref=lever-reports-newsletter

The Pension Chief Betting On Oil While California Burns

The top investment officer of California’s massive teachers’ pension fund opposed fossil fuel divestment — then went on to trade more than $1 million in oil and gas-related stocks.

The Lever

Bert Ernste • NL | BR May 31, 2025

Brazil’s environmental governance is under threat – and Lula is siding with oil industry (The Guardian)

Politicians reviled environmental minister Marina Silva in the senate this week, but new legislation is fuelling the fire.

Next year’s presidential election seems to be weighing on president Lula’s mind more than November’s Cop30 climate summit in Belém.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/31/brazil-environmental-movemen-lula-oil-industry

#brazil #brasil #brazilie #Environment #Amazon #rainforest #fossil_fuel #deforestation #oil_exploration #lula

Brazil’s environmental governance is under threat – and Lula is siding with oil industry

Politicians reviled environmental minister Marina Silva in the senate this week, but new legislation is fuelling the fire

The Guardian

Bert Ernste • NL | BR May 5, 2025

The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear an Evan Davis podcast about heat pumps? (The Guardian)

The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival.

Why? The answer is simple: economic power.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/01/consistently-appeasing-platforming-right-bbc-undermines-own-survival

#bbc #media #journalism #journalist #news #press #lobby #thinktank #censorship #fossil_fuel #climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #media_bias

The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear an Evan Davis podcast about heat pumps?

The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

♁ 🌍🌏🌎 Udo Baumgartner (⧖)😷Mar 25, 2024

#fossil_fuel

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/22/oil-companies-emissions-goals-report

World’s largest oil companies ‘way off track’ on emissions goals, report finds

Despite splashy climate pledges, firms including BP and Saudi Aramco have plans to expand fossil fuel production, says analysis

The Guardian

Manly Blog Mar 21, 2024

“We should be ashamed...We are world-leading fossil fuel exporters and the only developed country that’s still a global land clearing hotspot and it still isn’t against the law to destroy places where koalas live."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/21/global-heating-land-clearing-and-the-extinction-vortex-the-fight-to-save-australias-koalas
#koalas #NSW #logging #fossil_fuel #Sydney

Global heating, land clearing and the ‘extinction vortex’: the fight to save Australia’s koalas

A century ago, the sheer volume of koalas meant they were hunted for fur in the hundreds of thousands; today a dwindling population faces threats from continued logging and heatwaves

The Guardian

♁ 🌍🌏🌎 Udo Baumgartner (⧖)😷Mar 21, 2024

#fossil_fuel cause millions of excess heat deaths before the end of the century

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/20/emissions-connected-to-top-oil-and-gas-firms-may-cause-millions-of-heat-deaths-by-2100-study-finds

Emissions connected to top oil and gas firms may cause millions of heat deaths by 2100, study finds

Global witness analysis suggests 11.5 million deaths could be caused by burning of fuel produced by 2050

The Guardian

Bert Ernste • NL | BR Jan 6, 2024

An odd silence - at the end of humanity’s hottest year…yet (The Crucial Years)

Because the most important thing that happened this year was the heat.

And yet you really wouldn’t know it from reading the wrap-ups of the year’s news now appearing on one website after another.

In geological terms, we’re warming at hellish pace.

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-odd-silence

#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #heatwaves #extreme_weather #flooding #fossil_fuel #co2 #media #news #news_cycle #journalism

An odd silence

at the end of humanity's hottest year...yet

The Crucial Years

Bert Ernste • NL | BR Dec 29, 2023

World will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say (The Guardian)

“Not only did governments fail to stem global warming, the rate of global warming actually accelerated.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/29/world-will-look-back-at-2023-as-year-humanity-exposed-its-inability-to-tackle-climate-crisis

#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #energy #energy_transition #carbon_footprint #global_warming #fossil_fuel #extreme_weather #storms #floodings #flash_floods #forest_fires #wildfires #heat_waves #cop28

World will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say

Disastrous events included flash flooding in Africa and wildfires in Europe and North America

The Guardian

neat_news Dec 13, 2023

Many have hoped for more decisive action against climate change at the UN climate summit in Dubai. Still, all almost 200 countries represented agreed for the first time on a transition away from fossil fuels. See http://www.neat-news.com/2023/12/347.php. #climate #fossil_fuel

Neat News 2023

Bert Ernste • NL | BR Feb 28, 2023

Fossil fuels kill more people than Covid. Why are we so blind to the harms of oil and gas? (The Guardian)

Were we able to perceive afresh the sheer scale of fossil fuel impact we might be horrified, but because this is an old problem too many don’t see it as a problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/28/fossil-fuels-kill-more-people-than-covid-why-are-we-so-blind-to-the-harms-of-oil-and-gas

#fossil_fuel #oil #gas #exxonmobil #suncor #tar_sands #pollution #air_pollution #health #climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #renewables #energy #energy_transition

Fossil fuels kill more people than Covid. Why are we so blind to the harms of oil and gas?

Were we able to perceive afresh the sheer scale of fossil fuel impact we might be horrified, but because this is an old problem too many don’t see it as a problem

The Guardian