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Greenwashing: energy companies make false claims about sustainability – they should be held to account

Companies implement corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a way to present an environmentally responsible image and therefore gain legitimacy in the eyes of their stakeholders. But some companies don’t actually live up to their claims.

The Conversation

Oil and gas emissions predicted to rise for North Sea companies

Shell and BP responsible for around 36% of the total 725 million tonnes of CO2 set to be emitted between now and 2030

Insider UK

British public ‘being ripped off’ as Shell pays just 22p in tax per citizen despite record profits

UK ranks 19th out of the 25 countries in which Shell operates for the amount of tax it paid, campaigners say

The Independent UK

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UN biodiversity day turns 30, but is the world doing enough?

The International Day for Biodiversity was created in 1993 to shine a light on issues affecting nature. Three decades later, protecting ecosystems has become more urgent than ever. The EU is one region rolling out ambitious policies, but the clock is ticking.

Radio France Internationale

Swiss gold or smuggled Zimbabwean gold? No one knows

A complex gold smuggling and trading system means there is no clean gold, an Al Jazeera investigation shows. Here’s why.

Al Jazeera

BP CEO pay doubles to $12M as high energy costs surge profit

Total pay for BP’s CEO more than doubled to $12 million last year

The Independent UK

Huge £10m pay packet for ex-Shell boss while Brits struggle with astronomical energy bills

Some people have accused energy suppliers of profiteering off the war in Ukraine as the supply is causing prices to rise

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‘Outrageous’ Shell bonus triggers call for higher windfall tax – but UK firms take hit from levy

‘The money being made out of Putin’s war should be helping struggling families’

The Independent UK

Fatcat ex-Shell boss handed huge £10m pay packet - as Brits struggle to pay energy bills

Last month, Shell reported record profits of £32.2billion for 2022 which was double the previous year's total

Daily Mirror

At Gabon talks, a debate on who pays to save world's forests

A summit on how to protect the world’s largest forests underway in Gabon is set to be dominated by the issue of who pays for the protection and reforesting of lands that are home to some of the world’s most diverse species and contribute to limiting planet-warming emissions

The Independent UK

Myanmar military gets new aviation fuel supplies despite abuses

New report from Amnesty Intl, Global Witness and Burma Campaign UK reveals new shipments of fuel despite air raids.

Al Jazeera

Shell and Vitol accused of prolonging Ukraine war with sanctions ‘loophole’

Exclusive: Ukrainian economic adviser urges energy firms to heed deadline to halt trade of ‘Russian-origin oil products’

The Guardian - UK

Peruvian loggers given 28 years in jail for murder of four Indigenous leaders

Victims – among them environmental defender Edwin Chota – were tortured before their deaths in Peruvian Amazon in 2014

The Guardian - US

Energy bill rise a 'national act of harm' as energy firms hand £84BILLION to shareholders

As analysis shows five energy firms shared out £84billion to shareholders, Martin Lewis slammed Tory plans to raise the cap on energy bills and urged the Chancellor to postpone

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Shell profit doubles to record $56 billion in 2022 as war drives up energy costs

Global energy giant Shell has said that its annual profits doubled to a record high last year as oil and natural gas prices soared after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Shell profit doubles to record as war drives up energy costs

Global energy giant Shell says annual profits doubled to a record high last year as oil and gas prices soared after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Guardian - US

Shell’s actual spending on renewables is fraction of what it claims, group alleges

Non-profit group Global Witness urges US regulator to investigate oil giant and potentially impose fines over apparent ‘mislabeling’

The Guardian - US

Missing Mexican environmentalists’ families accuse mining company

Relatives denounce transnational Ternium over case of lawyer Ricardo Lagunes and Indigenous leader Antonio Díaz Valencia

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Reuters

Facebook approved ads promoting violence in wake of Brazil riots - report

Facebook approved a series of online ads promoting violence in Brazil, days after protesters ransacked government buildings, according to a new report.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Facebook Approved Ads Promoting Violence in Wake of Brazil Riots

Facebook approved a series of online ads promoting violence in Brazil, days after protesters ransacked government buildings, according to a new report.

Al Jazeera

‘Afraid of the gun’: Military coup fuels Myanmar resource grab

Crisis triggered by the military takeover makes life even more dangerous for those fighting to protect the environment.

Fortune

Ukraine official accuses BP of war profiteering

A major energy company that pledged to sell its interests in Russia has yet to do so.

The National (Scotland)

Conservatives receive over £1.7m from shadowy think tanks and climate sceptic firms

THE Conservative Party and its MPs have registered more than £1.7m in donations from climate sceptics and fossil fuel interests since the 2019…

The Guardian - UK

Imprisoned activist’s lawyer denied access at Egyptian jail during climate summit – as it happened

British-Egyptian Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who has been on hunger strike for months, stopped drinking water when Cop27 began

The Independent UK

Report: TikTok bad at culling US election misinformation ads

TikTok’s algorithms are very good at finding videos to keep people glued to their phone screens for hours on end

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