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Rachel Kennerley

@rjkennerley.bsky.social
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Campaigner on international climate justice issues, including on carbon capture for @ciel.org. At #COP29 to stop false solutions like CCS

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Real Zero Europe @realzeroeurope.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 What are the risks of CO₂ transportation? Join @recommon.org's webinar to discuss the risks of CO₂ pipeline ruptures, what caused past incidents in the US and what are the consequences for people’s health. Register here 👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🌐 Italian–English interpretation available
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Aled Dilwyn Fisher @aleddilwyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“All capture and storage projects suffer from the same problem: they distract attention and resources from cutting emissions at source and give polluting industries like fertiliser production a pass to keep on polluting,” says @rjkennerley.bsky.social of @ciel.org.
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Is Europe’s largest carbon capture project ‘a pass to keep polluting’?
Carbon capture and storage has been found to be “technically uncertain and very high cost”.
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 17/09/2026
A new greenwashing project by fertilizer giant Yara (so polluting, it's dubbed the Exxon of agriculture) recently came online, to much fanfare. 2 Prime Ministers & 1 EU Commissioner went to the opening of Yara's ammonia plant #CCS project... to watch an EMPTY ship take no CO2 anywhere 👇
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Yara's CCS project shows limitations of Blue Hydrogen and Ammonia
Yara's fertilizer plant in Sluiskil in the Netherlands is the second customer of the Northern Lights CO₂ storage site in Norway. While it is one of the largest CCS projects in Europe, it avoids only a...
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 15/09/2026
🎉Huge congratulations to CIEL’s @dlevialvares.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Climate Breakthrough Award! With Climate Breakthrough’s support, she’s launching an ambitious initiative to map pathways out of the petrochemical-dependent world. 🧵👇1/2
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 11/09/2026
The EU is investing billions in costly #CCS instead of in real #ClimateAction. CIEL's Rachel Kennerley told @euronews.com “All CCS projects suffer from the same problem... [they] give polluting industries like fertiliser production a pass to keep on polluting" 🧵👇
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We're so proud to be a part of the coalition that stopped the Angeles Link hydrogen project. We knew that, contrary to SoCalGas's claims, hydrogen is not a climate solution. We organized, used every tool available to us, and ultimately won! Onwards!
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VICTORY! L.A. Communities Defeat Dangerous Hydrogen Pipelines
Years of community organizing stopped SoCalGas's dangerous Angeles Link hydrogen project. This is how we did it.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 09/09/2026
🚨 Europe’s latest carbon capture project is a dangerous distraction — and a pass to keep on polluting. The project in the Netherlands risks funneling millions in public money into speculative technologies rather than real decarbonization. Our reaction: bit.ly/4hds290 🧵👇1/4
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Opening of Europe's largest carbon capture project is a dangerous distraction - CIEL
CIEL experts warn that the opening Europe's largest carbon capture project, risks using billions in taxpayers’ money to fund a dangerous distraction that delays climate action.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 02/09/2026
A new @unep.org report warns of massive risk from exceeding 1.5°C global warming. Yet it fails to put a fast, fair, funded fossil fuel phase-out at the center of how governments fulfill their legal obligations. Here’s why that’s a problem. 🧵
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 01/09/2026
Heard about new fossil gas plants being built to power AI data centres? Maybe some PR about their emissions being captured & stored? Tip: Don't fall for empty promises from companies that produce+sell gas, that a technology they’ve been failing to deliver for decades, will soon make gas “clean” ⬇️
Image of an origami paper tiger, accompanied by text that says: "Carbon capture is a paper tiger. New fossil fuel infrastructure for data centres is not going to be 'decarbonised' by a costly, risky, and failed technology. Even its proponents won't pay for it... and will sue if they're actually required to build it. New gas just means new emissions."
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 26/08/2026
The European Union is preparing new rules for carbon dioxide transport that could accelerate industrial carbon capture infrastructure at the expense of people and nature. 1/4 🧵👇
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 25/08/2026
How much “significant harm” can a €2 trillion EU budget do? 🔎 New Deregulation Watch post on dangerous exemptions to 'Do No Significant Harm' principle. Mining & fossil fuel lobbies pushed for loopholes to get more public money 💶 for harmful projects + false solutions that promote fossil fuels 🛢️🏭
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Deregulation Watch | Corporate Europe Observatory
Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environme...
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 04/08/2026
Who is financing the global petrochemicals build-out? We followed the money — and the numbers are staggering. 🏦 US$250B from banks. 📈 US$87B from institutional investors. And it keeps flowing. It's time to pull the plug on toxic finance. 👉 bit.ly/4aM5vMP
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 27/07/2026
As Europe’s largest carbon capture and storage (#CCS) project prepares to start operating in the Netherlands, fertilizer giant Yara is claiming a major climate win. But our expert Lisa Tostado pulls back the curtain on why this project is a dangerous distraction. 🙅 1/2 👇
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Real Zero Europe @realzeroeurope.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🔴 Today the European Commission unveiled its proposed revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), one of the EU’s flagship climate policies. At a time of record-breaking heatwaves across Europe, we need a climate strategy focused on reducing emissions at source, not on false solutions 👇
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 10/07/2026
The UK’s fervor for carbon capture isn’t a climate solution — it’s a fossil fuel lifeline that could cost £198bn. As @georgemonbiot.bsky.social writes in @theguardian.com, 75% of this failed tech's cost may fall on consumers to prop up oil & gas instead of phasing them out. 👉 bit.ly/4pbj1zL
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The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot
There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 09/07/2026
Major win for communities: Plans for one of the world's largest blue hydrogen & ammonia plant have been canceled! The gas and chemicals company Air Products officially abandoned its planned $4.5 billion Clean Energy Complex in Louisiana, swallowing a massive $2.9 billion loss. 1/5 bit.ly/4gvXn71
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Why it matters: Air Products' Louisiana blue hydrogen and ammonia project canceled
A monumental community victory as the Air Products Louisiana project canceled its multi-billion dollar blue hydrogen and ammonia proposal.
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Real Zero Europe @realzeroeurope.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🔴 A major @propublica.org & @drilledmedia.bsky.social investigation confirms what many experts have long warned: carbon capture has failed to deliver at the scale promised, despite billions in public subsidies. Yet #CCS is increasingly being elevated as a cornerstone of climate policy. 1/
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
1/ Yesterday @wmo-global.bsky.social made Earth's Energy Imbalance a headline #climate indicator for the first time. I think this could be a significant reframing of climate discourse, and it's worth paying close attention to why. 🧵
A staircase diagram with six levels rising from bottom-left to top-right. Each level on the left represents a stage in the causal chain of climate change, connected by a dashed arrow to a corresponding intervention on the right. From bottom to top: Root Drivers (economic system, fossil finance, colonial and historical structures, geopolitics) connects to Transformative System Change (economic restructuring, post-colonial redress, geopolitical shifts); Human Activities (consumption and production patterns) connects to Socio-technical and Behavioural Change (electrification, behaviour change, market incentives); Energy and Land Systems connects to Infrastructure Transition (renewables, grids, land-use redesign); Emissions connects to End-of-pipe Controls (CCS); Atmospheric GHG Concentrations connects to Carbon Dioxide Removal (including NETs); Earth's Energy Imbalance connects to Geoengineering (SRM). A diagonal arrow runs across the full diagram from Structural/Preventative at the bottom-left to Reactive/Compensatory at the top-right.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 12/05/2026
⛓️‍💥 The fertilizer crisis is a fossil fuel crisis. It's time to break free! Today, war in the Gulf has sent fertilizer prices soaring again📈 The EU's reliance on synthetic fertilizers squeezes farmers, pollutes nature, harms health, and keeps our food tied to fossil fuels. 70+ orgs call for change👇
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 10/03/2026
🌍 We’re hiring 🌍 CIEL is looking for an Administrative Assistant to support our Fossil Economy Program. Join a global team advancing climate justice & accountability. 🗓 Apply by 3/30 📌 Remote or Geneva-based) 🔗 cielorg.bamboohr.com/careers/127?so…
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 12/02/2026
💘 Love is in the air… or is it influence? This Valentine’s Day, we’re taking a closer look at the relationships shaping EU policy. 👇 [1/7]
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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We Didn’t Start the Fire (But it’s all the ways the EU has ruined environmental protection in the last three years) with @greenpeace.eu #ad
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 17/12/2025
Bad news for the #CCS industry: 🔻World’s largest #CCS project revealed record low capture rates 🔻Backers of Acorn CCS are looking to sell up 🔻BP scrap blue Hydrogen & CCS at Teesside CCS projects falling short — technically, economically and politically.
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Read more in the factsheet: www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/fa...
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Mapping the money behind carbon capture — Real Zero Europe
Public subsidies and industry ties
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
#CCS is not a climate plan, it's a delay strategy with the public footing the bill. As #ICMForum convenes Europe faces a choice - subsidising a high-cost technofix to suit fossil fuel interests or prioritise real climate solutions that cut emissions now.
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Equinor's & Shells' involvement in #ICMForum working groups means they're making #CCS policy recommendations to the @EU_Commission . Both companies are involved in #CSS projects receiving billions in public funds.
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Seems like a bad investment of public € - 78% of #CCS projects fail & 70% of the tracked subsidies are for projects still in the planning stage. @corporateeurope.org show that #ICMForum is dominated by fossil fuel lobbyists, making recommendations that are reflected in EU strategy.
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Despite nearly €17.3 billion in European public subsidies since 2001, #CCS has repeatedly failed to deliver real emissions cuts. Instead its use risks providing polluters with an excuse to keep on polluting.
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
On 8&9 Dec, the @EU_Commission hosts its Industrial Carbon Management Forum #ICMForum -promoting #CCS & dominated by fossil lobbyists. New Analysis reveals Europe is pouring €bns into #CCS, a technology that continues to fail while lobbyists shape the agenda
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Public funding for #CCS is accelerating. @oilchange.bsky.social & @corporateeurope.org show 🔸EU #CCS subsidies have more than doubled 2023, totaling over €6.2 bn 🔸Member States added €6.1 bn more 🔸Norway, central to EU CCS plans, has spent €5 bn www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/fa... ⏬
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Mapping the money behind carbon capture — Real Zero Europe
Public subsidies and industry ties
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
#CCS is not a climate plan, it's a delay strategy with the public footing the bill. As #ICM25 convenes Europe faces a choice - subsidising a high-cost technofix to suit fossil fuel interests or prioritise real climate solutions that cut emissions now.
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Equinor's & Shells' involvement in #ICM25 working groups means they're making #CCS policy recommendations to the @EU_Commission . Both companies are involved in #CSS projects receiving billions in public funds.
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Seems like a bad investment of public € - 78% of #CCS projects fail & 70% of the tracked subsidies are for projects still in the planning stage. @corporateeurope.org show that #ICM25 is dominated by fossil fuel lobbyists, making recommendations that are reflected in EU strategy.
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Despite nearly €17.3 billion in European public subsidies since 2001, #CCS has repeatedly failed to deliver real emissions cuts. Instead its use risks providing polluters with an excuse to keep on polluting.
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
On 8&9 Dec, the @ec.europa.eu hosts its Industrial Carbon Management Forum #ICM25 -promoting #CCS & dominated by fossil lobbyists. New Analysis reveals Europe is pouring €bns into #CCS, a technology that continues to fail while lobbyists shape the agenda
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 18/11/2025
300+ big agriculture lobbyists have participated in #COP30, taking place in the Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation. States must commit to #EndFossilFuels, incl. agrochemicals, & reforming the COPs to address this conflict of interest. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 17/11/2025
"Carbon markets are opening doors to geonegineering. We are seeing that many countries NDCs are full of carbon offsets, full of false solutions. But the reality is that these climate scams are being pushed by powerful actors with vested interests under guise of climate action." @foeint.bsky.social
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
#AI & #CCS must not be used as a lifeline for polluting industries. #PollutersOuts
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"AI is now optimizing and expanding those systems – deepening the industry’s dependence on technologies that exist to prolong its life. It’s a dangerous feedback loop of technology enabling additional emissions and eroding accountability.”
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“AI and carbon capture are being packaged as climate solutions, but most CCS today is being pumped back into the fossil fuel system to extract even more oil." Holly Alpine at Enabled Emissions Campaign↕️ www.enabledemissions.com
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ENABLED EMISSIONS CAMPAIGN | Hold Big Tech Accountable Today
Exploring Big Tech's role in fueling fossil fuel expansion through AI and cloud tech; advocating for transparency, accountability, and real climate solutions.
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"The influx of CCS lobbyists at COP30 shows how the AI industry is using the false promise of carbon capture as a lifeline for fossil fuels. AI is the love child of Big Tech and the fossil fuel industry." @ajeansu.bsky.social for @biologicaldiversity.org
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
#AI & #CCS, a new escape hatch for oil and gas companies - CCS advocates and #FossilFuel firms are using AI’s energy demands to justify new fossil-fueled plants, greenwashed by CCS. 531 CCS lobbyists at #COP30 confirms the industry is committed to promoting proven-to-fail CCS
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The number of Carbon Capture and Storage #CCS lobbyists is higher than: ⏫ Any other single nation, except the host country, Brazil ⏫ The national delegations from the G7 countries ⏫ 62 delegations combined, including 14 EU countries
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🆕 @ciel.org Analysis - 531 #CCS lobbyists at #COP30 At least 531 lobbyists for groups that advocate for a misguided technology that prolongs #FossilFuel use have gained access to the climate talks. www.ciel.org/news/531-car... Unchecked corporate capture will continue to delay #ClimateAction.
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Exposed: 531 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) lobbyists at COP30 climate summit in Brazil
The CCS lobbyists received more COP30 passes than any other single nation registered at COP30, except the host country. More passes than 62 national delegations combined. CCS has a decades-long histor...
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 14/11/2025
📣 BREAKING: One out of every 25 attendees at the #COP30 climate talks is a fossil fuel lobbyist. The arsonists aren’t just in the building — they’re throwing fuel on the fire. We need to #KickOutTheSuits NOW! READ: kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
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Rachel Kennerley @rjkennerley.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
📣 BREAKING: Over 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists are at #COP30. 🛢️1 in 25 attendees still represent crisis-driving corporations, and lobbyists outnumber delegates from the ten most climate-vulnerable nations We need to #KickOutTheSuits and #KickBigPollutersOut NOW! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 12/11/2025
Today, CIEL & Climate Action Network joined 5 thousand people from 60 countries sailing on the rivers surrounding the #COP30 host city. The #AmazonFlotilla is not just a protest or a journey. It's an #IndigenousPeoples-led act of resistance, hope & empowerment: amazonflotilla.quipa.org A 🧵
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"Many oil and gas companies advocating for #CCS in UK have simultaneously raised issues with the technical feasibility and commercial viability of CCS in other countries when faced with regulation" Report by @influencemap.bsky.social #climatecrisis influencemap.org/report/The-U...
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The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 08/10/2025
🚨 New report from @influencemap.bsky.social reveals Oil & Gas giants are driving the push for costly Carbon Capture & Storage. It’s not a climate solution—it’s a lifeline for fossil fuels. #CCS risks locking in emissions and delaying real action. bit.ly/3IZXf1e
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The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/10/2025
You can't fix offsets, because they're not really broken They are designed from the ground up as a way for polluters to falsify climate action, and for disgustingly rich bankers to divert funds away from frontline communities As long as fossil fuels exist, offsets will exist Good paper! -->>>
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Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?
This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their p...
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