climate cases

How corruption threatens the forests of Ukraine: launch of Environmental Corruption Deep Dive report

The Basel Institute has published a comprehensive new analysis of corruption and illegal logging in Ukraine. Juhani Grossmann, who leads the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption programme, explains what it covers and why the report comes at a crucial time for Ukraine and its partners.
https://baselgovernance.org/blog/how-corruption-threatens-forests-ukraine-launch-environmental-corruption-deep-dive-report

How Big Oil helped Russia

This is the two decade-long story of how the oil majors stuck with Putin, helping to fund the Russian government despite growing evidence of the regime’s violence, and how they enabled the development of climate-wrecking oil and gas projects despite knowing about the impact of fossil fuels
Source: https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/stop-russian-oil/how-big-oil-helped-russia/

Trump nominates acting EPA head, an ex-coal lobbyist, to run agency

U.S. President Donald Trump... nominated acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler to run the agency permanently, the White House said, placing a former energy lobbyist at the helm of the nation’s top environmental regulator.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa-idUKKCN1P324H

War on science: Trump administration muzzles climate experts, critics say

Whistleblowers and groups tracking agency decisions say administration is ignoring science and censoring expertise
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/26/war-on-science-trump-administration-muzzles-climate-experts-critics-say

A Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research

An official at the Interior Department embarked on a campaign that has inserted misleading language about climate change — including debunked claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is beneficial — into the agency’s scientific reports [The New York Times].
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/climate/goks-uncertainty-language-interior.html

Greed and Graft at U.N. Climate Program

Whistleblowers and experts allege corruption at a United Nations Development Program project for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Russia, according to a Foreign Policy investigation.
Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/14/greed-and-graft-at-un-climate-program-united-nations-undp-corruption/

Fossil Fuel Industry Doubles Donations to Major Parties

Fossil-fuel industry doubles donations to major parties in four years, report shows
Coal, oil and gas companies trying to ‘buy political power’, says Australian Conservation Foundation
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/fossil-fuel-industry-doubles-donations-to-major-parties-in-four-years-report-shows

The Trump administration’s major environmental deregulations

Trump administration has taken on a massive deregulatory effort. With the issuance of Executive Order 13771, the administration’s two-for-one rule, federal agencies were directed to eliminate two regulations for each new rule issued.
Source: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/12/15/the-trump-administrations-major-environmental-deregulations/

Brazil’s illegal gold rush is fueling corruption, violent crime and deforestation

Once the epicenter of the global trade in gold, illegal mining is once again surging across the Amazon. Its extraction and trade is not only fueling corruption, money laundering and criminal violence – it is accelerating deforestation in the world’s largest tropical forest.
Source: https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/brazils-illegal-gold-rush-is-fueling-corruption-violent-crime-and-deforestation/

EU accused of climate accounting tricks

There's some hocus-pocus going on with the emissions reduction numbers the European Union is proudly touting at the COP27 climate summit, climate campaigners allege.
Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-accused-climate-accounting-tricks-cop27/