Firms That Once Called Themselves Sustainable Are Now “Greenhushing”
A September 2023 protest outside of BlackRock HQ in New York City.Gina M Randazzo/Zuma This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For years, eagle-eyed environmentalists have called out banks and consumer businesses—from Barclays to fashion brand ASOS—for making misleading claims that their practices or products are sustainable,…
Inside the Movement to Ban Lab-Grown Meat
Scientists work in a bioprocess lab at Eat Just in Alameda, CA making lab-grown meat. Jeff Chiu / AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Months in jail and thousands of dollars in fines and legal fees—those are the consequences Alabamians and Arizonans could…
With Biden on the Campaign Trail, It’s Time to Fact-Check His Climate Plans
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Joe Biden, touted as the first US climate president, is presiding over the quiet weakening of his two most significant plans to slash planet-heating emissions, suggesting that tackling the climate crisis will take a back seat in a febrile election year.…
Can We Slash Carbon Emissions and Still Have Economic Growth?
Ying Tang/NurPhoto/Zuma This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For nearly 200 years, two transformative global forces have grown in tandem: economic activity and carbon emissions. The two have long been paired together, or, in economist-speak, “coupled.” When the economy has gotten bigger, so has our climate footprint. This…
Climate Disasters Are Leaving Some Poor Nations in a Crushing Cycle of Debt
A destroyed home in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian.Roger Edelman/ZUMA This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new UN report sheds light on how climate change is driving some climate-vulnerable nations deeper into debt, locking them into unsustainable cycles of economic crisis and hampering their governments’…
ExxonMobil CEO Blames Climate Crisis on the Public, Stirring Outrage
Darren Woods, Chief Executive Officer of Exxon Mobil Corporation, speaks to Daniel Yergin during a CERAWeek panel in March 2023.Reginald Mathalone / ZUMA This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world is off track to meet its climate goals and the public is to…