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  • Nienke Palstra / July 5, 2022

    Brussels takes on Big Tech: The good, the bad and the ugly

    The Digital Services Act is the most sweeping set of rules to regulate tech companies anywhere in the world. Our take on what these rules do, and don’t, achieve

    An activist of environmental NGO Avaaz wearing a mask depicting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a banner reading "Regulate me" during an action marking the release of the Digital Services Act, outside the European Commission
  • June 23, 2022

    Ukraine, Putin, gas and sanctions - FAQs

    From peace-washing to petrostates, we break down the key questions in the debate on sanctioning the Russian fossil fuel industry

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  • Svitlana Romanko / May 30, 2022

    “The war in Ukraine, the climate crisis, and the energy crisis have common roots”

    Svitlana Romanko, climate justice activist from Ukraine, explains how fossil fuels are funding the Russian invasion of her country, as well as fuelling the climate crisis and other conflicts around the world

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  • Aurelie Skrobik / May 30, 2022

    How Europe can stop funding land grabs in Brazil

    The expansion of ranching and plantations is at the heart of land conflicts in the Amazon

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  • May 27, 2022

    What is climate disinformation?

    Climate disinformation is hindering our ability to combat the gravest threat of our time

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  • Henry Peck / May 24, 2022

    The offsets distraction from urgent climate action

    Carbon offsets are being used to justify continued greenhouse gas emissions. Rather than meaningful climate action, they are a false solution to the climate crisis

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  • Sara Cordovez López / May 24, 2022

    How to delay climate action: false solutions and fossil fuels

    As the climate crisis deepens, all eyes are on the fossil fuel industry. With pressure building, these profiteers of climate breakdown have shifted from denying science to peddling false solutions to delay action.

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  • Alexandria Reid & Alexandria Robins / May 24, 2022

    Biden’s Executive Order on forests can help stop Wall Street from financing deforestation

    President Biden’s recent Executive Order called for a ‘whole-of-government’ approach to combating deforestation. Any incoming regulations must stop Wall Street from bankrolling forest destruction

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  • Maxine Sackey / May 12, 2022

    Alarm bells of authoritarianism sounding in the UK

    The UK government’s proposed ‘Policing Bill’ erodes human rights and stifles the critical action needed to tackle the climate crisis

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  • Louis Wilson / April 12, 2022

    Planet v. Profit: Stories from the climate crisis

    Introducing our new podcast series which delves into stories which make up the climate crisis – told by the people fighting for our planet.

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