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According to a peer-reviewed study, in the journal PLOS One, focused on two American companies, Chevron and ExxonMobil, as well as two European ones, BP and Shell, researchers at a pair of Japanese universities reviewed data from 2009 to 2020, examining the firms’ keyword use in annual reports; business strategies; and production, expenditures, and earnings for fossil fuels along with investments in clean energy.
“We found a strong increase in discourse related to ‘climate,’ ‘low-carbon,’ and ‘transition,’ especially by BP and Shell,” the paper states. “Similarly, we observed increasing tendencies toward strategies related to decarbonization and clean energy. But these are dominated by pledges rather than concrete actions.”
“Moreover, the financial analysis reveals a continuing business model dependence on fossil fuels along with insignificant and opaque spending on clean energy,” the study adds. “We thus conclude that the transition to clean energy business models is not occurring, since the magnitude of investments and actions does not match discourse.”
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263596#ack
Another big F for COP26
I recall the criticism of Black Lives Matter. Its leaders were left-wing. It was financed by foreign funders such as oligarch George Soros. And that it was violent
The silence now of the Flu Trux Klan Freedumb Clownvoy being organised by far-right activists and supported by foreign donations from the US and supported by oligarch, Elon Musk, and the interception of guns being smuggled into Canada.
John Pilger, the veteran war correspondent
Russian-speaking Ukrainians, under economic blockade by Kiev for seven years, are fighting for their survival. The “massing” army we seldom hear about are the 13 Ukrainian army brigades laying siege to Donbass: an estimated 150,000 troops. If they attack, the provocation to Russia will almost certainly mean war.
The French Communist Party anti-green populism — meat and nuclear power. Pro-police
He came up with the term “roussellement” – a play on “ruissellement”, the French word for trickle-down economics – to describe his own economic platform. A Keynesian proposal to stimulate domestic demand through wage hikes,
Roussel has proven adept at the art of “dressing up something old as something new”. He has a simple message: “You don’t need to be a Communist to vote Fabien Roussel.”
“I’m fed up with a left that makes people feel guilty all the time,” he told French newspaper Libération. “I don’t want the left-wing politics of the Greens, who lecture the French all the time, who make them feel guilty for eating meat, for using their cars, for building their homes in the countryside, for flying the national flag.”
Now the counter-claim with Ukraine saying a kindergarten was shelled
The Democratic Party vacuum in rural America
The long-awaited false flag black ops?
Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have accused Ukrainian forces of using mortars, grenade launchers and a machine gun in four separate incidents.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/17/ukraine-rebels-accuse-govt-forces-of-mortar-attack-liveblog
The talk of sanctions is common among politicians but business understand how much Russian commerce is integrated in the world economy and know sanctions would back-fire
“Officially, if you’re black or of Arab origin, Zemmour believes in ‘assimilation’: work hard, adapt to ‘French culture’, and you can be French ‘like the rest’. In reality, it seems some Zemmourists will always see you as ‘less French’. And these are supposedly the more moderate, publicly acceptable faces of the campaign.”
In some exchanges I have had with Trump Republicans, the Chinese shift towards “capitalism” is equated with the benefit of capitalism over “socialism” and lifting many millions out of poverty.
When I suggested they have demonstrably shown that they should therefore drop their commitment to free enterprise and opposition to Big Government and State intervention in the economy to promote US prosperity, they cannot see the paradox.
The world is spending at least $1.8tn (£1.3tn) every year on subsidies driving the annihilation of wildlife and a rise in global heating, equivalent to 2% of global GDP, is directly working against the goals of the Paris agreement.
From tax breaks for beef production in the Amazon to financial support for unsustainable groundwater pumping in the Middle East, billions of pounds of government spending and other subsidies are harming the environment.
The fossil fuel industry ($620bn), the agricultural sector ($520bn), water ($320bn) and forestry ($155bn) account for the majority of the $1.8tn. No estimate for mining, believed to cause billions of dollars of damage to ecosystems every year, could be derived.
Biden’s Broken Promises. Why did he bother turning up in Glasgow?
1. Held the biggest-ever offshore oil drilling lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico
2. Permitted more drilling on public lands in the West and in Alaska than Trump did in his first year
3. Failed to advance a climate legislative agenda
4. Faltered in quickly reinstating rules
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/16/down-to-earth-joe-biden-climate
