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Trump is opening his administration to fracking billionaires, oil lobbyists and far-right climate deniers. Our global team of investigative reporters is tracking the damage.
Here's a starter pack of DeSmog investigators and some of the climate disinfo journalists we follow.
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Free speech champion Toby Young heads to Orbán's Hungary
The Conservative peer has chosen a strange place to pontificate on free speech and rail against the policing of social media posts
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November 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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🔴 NEW - Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’
Campaigners have highlighted the irony of the Tory peer warning about threats to free speech at a think tank bankrolled by a repressive regime.
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Campaigners have highlighted the irony of the Tory peer warning about threats to free speech at a think tank bankrolled by a repressive regime.
@writesbright.bsky.social
Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’
Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mat...
www.desmog.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🔴 NEW - Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’
Campaigners have highlighted the irony of the Tory peer warning about threats to free speech at a think tank bankrolled by a repressive regime.
@writesbright.bsky.social
Campaigners have highlighted the irony of the Tory peer warning about threats to free speech at a think tank bankrolled by a repressive regime.
@writesbright.bsky.social
🚨New: At COP30, the pesticide industry has been making big pledges to fight deforestation by turning Brazil's over-grazed pasturelands into new areas to grow crops. Small-holders fear it's all just a ploy to sell more of the toxic chemicals poisoning nature and harming human health. buff.ly/Yc8qocr
Pesticide Industry 'Hijacked' Climate Stage at COP30, Campaigners Say
Syngenta and other pesticide companies used the COP30 climate conference in Brazil to promote programmes to recover damaged pastureland that campaigners fear will drive increased use of toxic…
www.desmog.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
🚨New: At COP30, the pesticide industry has been making big pledges to fight deforestation by turning Brazil's over-grazed pasturelands into new areas to grow crops. Small-holders fear it's all just a ploy to sell more of the toxic chemicals poisoning nature and harming human health. buff.ly/Yc8qocr
🚨 Exclusive: As PR giant Edelman was gearing up to play its advisory role at the COP30 climate summit, the firm was also lobbying for Brazilian fossil fuel distributor Vibra Energia to help power it, documents show. Full story below: buff.ly/DwMvot9
Exclusive: COP30 PR Agency Edelman Lobbied Presidency to Favour Fossil Fuel Client
As Edelman prepared to work on the climate summit’s PR, the agency also lobbied for fuel distributor Vibra Energia to help power it.
www.desmog.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🚨 Exclusive: As PR giant Edelman was gearing up to play its advisory role at the COP30 climate summit, the firm was also lobbying for Brazilian fossil fuel distributor Vibra Energia to help power it, documents show. Full story below: buff.ly/DwMvot9
🔴 NEW 🔴
Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & Maximiliano Manzoni
www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...
Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & Maximiliano Manzoni
www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...
Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels
With the clock running down at the COP30 climate talks, the Brazilian hosts are working hand-in-hand with industry groups to secure backing for biofuels in the final text – despite fears that scaling ...
www.desmog.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
🔴 NEW 🔴
Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & Maximiliano Manzoni
www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...
Backed by Industry, Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing for Biofuels
📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & Maximiliano Manzoni
www.desmog.com/2025/11/20/b...
🚨 Did you know that food companies routinely make bacon look pinker by adding a chemical — nitrates — that increases cancer risk? In a similar way, global agribusiness pays ad and PR agencies to mask its role as a major emitter of greenhouse gases with a rosy glow.🐄 #COP30
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Meet Five PR Agencies Making Big Polluters Look “Ag-tastic”
Agribusiness companies create a third of global greenhouse pollution — and PR companies help them obscure it.
www.desmog.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🚨 Did you know that food companies routinely make bacon look pinker by adding a chemical — nitrates — that increases cancer risk? In a similar way, global agribusiness pays ad and PR agencies to mask its role as a major emitter of greenhouse gases with a rosy glow.🐄 #COP30
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🔴 NEW - Corporate Giant KPMG Accused of ‘Sneaking’ into COP30
Several senior staff members have gained entry without disclosing their real employer.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Several senior staff members have gained entry without disclosing their real employer.
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Corporate Giant KPMG Accused of ‘Sneaking’ into COP30
Multinational consulting firm KPMG has been accused of using underhand methods to gain access to this year’s COP30 climate summit. Critics allege that the firm has been using seemingly unaffiliated ad...
www.desmog.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🔴 NEW - Corporate Giant KPMG Accused of ‘Sneaking’ into COP30
Several senior staff members have gained entry without disclosing their real employer.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Several senior staff members have gained entry without disclosing their real employer.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
🚨 As the focus of the U.N. COP30 climate talks in Brazil turns to food systems, our colleagues at Unearthed show how industrial farming and pesticide companies are seeking to dominate discussion by cutting sponsorship deals with the hosts.
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Brazil’s COP30 Agriculture Sponsors Linked to Deforestation and Land Conflict
The climate summit’s new “Agrizone” pavilion will be sponsored by multinational pesticide giants and lobbyists for Brazilian agribusiness.
www.desmog.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🚨 As the focus of the U.N. COP30 climate talks in Brazil turns to food systems, our colleagues at Unearthed show how industrial farming and pesticide companies are seeking to dominate discussion by cutting sponsorship deals with the hosts.
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Charles Koch built his fortune importing Canadian oil—with Koch Inc importing more than a billion barrels of foreign oil into the US since 2015. Now a Koch-funded law firm is taking Trump's tariffs to the Supreme Court. @sharonkelly reports:
Battle Over Tariff Power Pits Trump Against Koch Network
Charles Koch’s fortunes were fueled by importing Canadian oil. Now a major Koch-funded law firm seeks to limit Trump’s tariff powers.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Charles Koch built his fortune importing Canadian oil—with Koch Inc importing more than a billion barrels of foreign oil into the US since 2015. Now a Koch-funded law firm is taking Trump's tariffs to the Supreme Court. @sharonkelly reports:
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Lord Glasman and the anti-Labour conspiracy crowd
The peer behind the conservative 'Blue Labour' movement has been keeping some decidedly awkward company
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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🔴 NEW - Influential Labour Peer Maurice Glasman Addressed Pro-Reform Conspiracy Group’s Conference
Glasman was a keynote speaker at an event hosted by Together, whose leader has accused Keir Starmer of “destroying Britain”.
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Glasman was a keynote speaker at an event hosted by Together, whose leader has accused Keir Starmer of “destroying Britain”.
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Influential Labour Peer Maurice Glasman Addressed Pro-Reform Conspiracy Group’s Conference
High-profile Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman was one of the keynote speakers at the annual conference of the Together Declaration, a conspiracy theory group with ties to Reform UK. Together held its ...
www.desmog.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🔴 NEW - Influential Labour Peer Maurice Glasman Addressed Pro-Reform Conspiracy Group’s Conference
Glasman was a keynote speaker at an event hosted by Together, whose leader has accused Keir Starmer of “destroying Britain”.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
Glasman was a keynote speaker at an event hosted by Together, whose leader has accused Keir Starmer of “destroying Britain”.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
🔴 NEW 🔴
More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @ninalakhani.bsky.social 👇
More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @ninalakhani.bsky.social 👇
More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
www.desmog.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🔴 NEW 🔴
More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @ninalakhani.bsky.social 👇
More Than 300 Lobbyists for Industrial Agriculture Attend COP30
Presence of high-polluting companies erodes trust in the UN process, say campaigners.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/18/m...
📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @ninalakhani.bsky.social 👇
🔴 Overhauled EU Climate Law Faces New Threat from Consultancy Giants
After MEPs voted to gut Europe’s flagship climate transparency law, concerns are mounting that the Big Four will dominate and dilute corporate sustainability audits.
After MEPs voted to gut Europe’s flagship climate transparency law, concerns are mounting that the Big Four will dominate and dilute corporate sustainability audits.
Overhauled EU Climate Law Faces New Threat from Consultancy Giants
This investigative work had been supported by the Centre for Investigative Journalism The European Parliament voted on Thursday (13 November) to significantly dilute key elements of Europe’s climate a...
www.desmog.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🔴 Overhauled EU Climate Law Faces New Threat from Consultancy Giants
After MEPs voted to gut Europe’s flagship climate transparency law, concerns are mounting that the Big Four will dominate and dilute corporate sustainability audits.
After MEPs voted to gut Europe’s flagship climate transparency law, concerns are mounting that the Big Four will dominate and dilute corporate sustainability audits.
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In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds
📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social
Published in partnership with @apublica.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...
In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds
📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social
Published in partnership with @apublica.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...
In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds
Doctors and models extol the virtues of meat as climate impacts of industrial farming face scrutiny at COP30 — the global climate summit.
www.desmog.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
🔴 NEW 🔴
In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds
📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social
Published in partnership with @apublica.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...
In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds
📝 @tjjordan.bsky.social @akhilr23.bsky.social @rachelsherrington.bsky.social @clarecarlile.bsky.social
Published in partnership with @apublica.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...
📍 BREAKING 📍 Canada delegation to COP30 stuffed with fossil fuel representatives, reflecting a new report that shows this year's UN climate talks have the highest number ever of fossil fuel lobbyists. buff.ly/FlNKBmT
‘Inviting the fox into the henhouse’: Canada delegation to COP30 loaded with fossil fuel representatives
Delegation’s composition consistent with new KBPO report revealing this year’s UN climate talks have the largest number of fossil fuel lobbyists to date
www.desmog.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📍 BREAKING 📍 Canada delegation to COP30 stuffed with fossil fuel representatives, reflecting a new report that shows this year's UN climate talks have the highest number ever of fossil fuel lobbyists. buff.ly/FlNKBmT
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U.S. Oil Executives Flock to COP30
Access by major polluters ExxonMobil and Chevron to the summit is proof that Big Oil still holds “a dangerous sway” over the climate process, campaigners say.
📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/14/u...
U.S. Oil Executives Flock to COP30
Access by major polluters ExxonMobil and Chevron to the summit is proof that Big Oil still holds “a dangerous sway” over the climate process, campaigners say.
📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/14/u...
U.S. Oil Executives Flock to COP30
Top American oil and gas producers are using trade groups to gain access to this year’s COP30 climate summit in the absence of an official U.S. delegation, DeSmog can report. ExxonMobil and Chevron — ...
www.desmog.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🔴 NEW 🔴
U.S. Oil Executives Flock to COP30
Access by major polluters ExxonMobil and Chevron to the summit is proof that Big Oil still holds “a dangerous sway” over the climate process, campaigners say.
📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/14/u...
U.S. Oil Executives Flock to COP30
Access by major polluters ExxonMobil and Chevron to the summit is proof that Big Oil still holds “a dangerous sway” over the climate process, campaigners say.
📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/14/u...
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'Pavilion partner AVEVA indicated that it had more than 600 oil and gas customers in December 2023, while the “success stories” listed on its website include projects with fossil fuel majors Shell, BP, Chevron, and others.'
🔴 UK Partners With Oil Industry Supplier at COP30
Labour government accused of being “complicit in the fossil fuel industry’s conquest of the COP process”.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
Labour government accused of being “complicit in the fossil fuel industry’s conquest of the COP process”.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
UK Partners With Oil Industry Supplier at COP30
The UK government is running its events at the flagship COP30 climate summit in partnership with a major supplier to the fossil fuel industry, DeSmog can reveal. For the second year running, the UK pa...
www.desmog.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
'Pavilion partner AVEVA indicated that it had more than 600 oil and gas customers in December 2023, while the “success stories” listed on its website include projects with fossil fuel majors Shell, BP, Chevron, and others.'
🔴 UK Partners With Oil Industry Supplier at COP30
Labour government accused of being “complicit in the fossil fuel industry’s conquest of the COP process”.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
Labour government accused of being “complicit in the fossil fuel industry’s conquest of the COP process”.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
UK Partners With Oil Industry Supplier at COP30
The UK government is running its events at the flagship COP30 climate summit in partnership with a major supplier to the fossil fuel industry, DeSmog can reveal. For the second year running, the UK pa...
www.desmog.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🔴 UK Partners With Oil Industry Supplier at COP30
Labour government accused of being “complicit in the fossil fuel industry’s conquest of the COP process”.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
Labour government accused of being “complicit in the fossil fuel industry’s conquest of the COP process”.
📝 @writesbright.bsky.social
Reposted by DeSmog
An extraordinary mapping of Big Food/Big Ag's influence at COP30, by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and co at @desmog.com.
As #COP30 begins in Belém @DeSmog can reveal over 140 ways food & agriculture firms to sway the summit. Meet the main players in Brazil's powerful agro lobby, along w/ US meat, dairy & grain industries -- and where they will target messages #AgroLobby. By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
An extraordinary mapping of Big Food/Big Ag's influence at COP30, by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and co at @desmog.com.
buff.ly/s8bYF4E The Climate Consciousness Summit 2025 is a transformative seven-day event bringing together leading voices in climate action, trauma-informed care, and regenerative solutions, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog. Registration details below. Hope to see you there!
Join DeSmog at the Climate Consciousness Summit 2025
The Climate Consciousness Summit 2025 is a transformative seven-day online event that brings together leading voices in climate action, trauma-informed care, and regenerative solutions to explore new…
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November 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
buff.ly/s8bYF4E The Climate Consciousness Summit 2025 is a transformative seven-day event bringing together leading voices in climate action, trauma-informed care, and regenerative solutions, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog. Registration details below. Hope to see you there!
Reposted by DeSmog
Don't know your #Abag from your #Abiec?
@desmog.com can help you navigate the #AgroLobby at #COP30...
We profiled #Brazil's 3 most influential meat industry trade groups: CNA, ABIEC & ABAG
Learn more in @rachelsherrington.bsky.social's map of food & farm lobby 👉 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
@desmog.com can help you navigate the #AgroLobby at #COP30...
We profiled #Brazil's 3 most influential meat industry trade groups: CNA, ABIEC & ABAG
Learn more in @rachelsherrington.bsky.social's map of food & farm lobby 👉 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Don't know your #Abag from your #Abiec?
@desmog.com can help you navigate the #AgroLobby at #COP30...
We profiled #Brazil's 3 most influential meat industry trade groups: CNA, ABIEC & ABAG
Learn more in @rachelsherrington.bsky.social's map of food & farm lobby 👉 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
@desmog.com can help you navigate the #AgroLobby at #COP30...
We profiled #Brazil's 3 most influential meat industry trade groups: CNA, ABIEC & ABAG
Learn more in @rachelsherrington.bsky.social's map of food & farm lobby 👉 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Reposted by DeSmog
🐄 New analysis from @desmog.com shows how food and farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives are set to navigate COP30.
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Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement…
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🐄 New analysis from @desmog.com shows how food and farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives are set to navigate COP30.
buff.ly/20x5AAL
buff.ly/20x5AAL
As #COP30 begins in Belém @DeSmog can reveal over 140 ways food & agriculture firms to sway the summit. Meet the main players in Brazil's powerful agro lobby, along w/ US meat, dairy & grain industries -- and where they will target messages #AgroLobby. By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
As #COP30 begins in Belém @DeSmog can reveal over 140 ways food & agriculture firms to sway the summit. Meet the main players in Brazil's powerful agro lobby, along w/ US meat, dairy & grain industries -- and where they will target messages #AgroLobby. By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi
buff.ly/e8P7BEE UK newspapers devoted more than triple the column inches to advertising high-carbon products like cruises, SUVs and flights than they did to covering last year's global climate negotiations , according to a study by the New Weather Institute.
UK Newspapers Publish More Ads for Polluting Products Than Climate Coverage
Space devoted to promoting flights, cruises, SUVs, and the oil industry dwarfed the column inches given to last year's U.N. climate summit, study finds.
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
buff.ly/e8P7BEE UK newspapers devoted more than triple the column inches to advertising high-carbon products like cruises, SUVs and flights than they did to covering last year's global climate negotiations , according to a study by the New Weather Institute.