U.S. Senators eye spies for new phase in climate-change battle

onMar 29, 2007 @ 11:12 PDT

The Global Climate Change Security Oversight bill, tabled jointly by Illinois Democrat Richard Durbin and Chuck Hagel, Republican from Nebraska, calls for a strategic estimate of risks due to climate change for countries or regions of particular economic or military significance to the United States.

The bill would require a National Intelligence Estimate of security threats due to climate change. These estimates distill the best information and thinking of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies into a series of key judgments about national security threats and other issues. The legislation would assess political, social, agricultural, and economic challenges and impacts for countries over the next 30 years.

It also funds additional research by the Department of Defense to examine the impact of climate change on military operations.

By Bill Miller

uk/Tory Leadership Contender Robert Jenrick’s Pro-Coal and Anti-Net Zero Record

ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright

onJul 25, 2024 @ 07:44 PDT

The Conservative candidate has changed his tune on climate action, recently attacking Labour’s net zero policies and arguing for new fossil fuel extraction.

Dutch and U.S. Climate Deniers Join Forces as Europe Shifts to the Right

ByNina Tea Zibetti, Alexander Beunder, Merel de Buck and Jilles Mast

onJul 24, 2024 @ 22:00 PDT

Clintel’s fifth anniversary conference in town outside Amsterdam offers a glimpse of the group’s transatlantic ties.

uk/Labour Urged to Release Cumbria Coal Mine Documents by Ex-Net Zero Tsar

ByPeter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin

onJul 24, 2024 @ 07:07 PDT

The government is being taken to court for failing to publish the evidence provided to ministers before they backed the controversial scheme.

Enquête : Les initiatives de l’industrie de l’aquaculture visant à promouvoir des pêcheries durables en Afrique de l’Ouest sont entachées de « conflits d’intérêts massifs »

ByBrigitte Wear, Hazel Healy and Michaela Herrmann

onJul 23, 2024 @ 04:04 PDT

Les responsables de campagne critiquent des programmes volontaires « fortement défectueux », tandis que l’analyse de DeSmog révèle l'absence de représentation de la société civile ou des communautés locales affectées par les dommages causés par l’industrie des farines et huiles de poisson.

Series: Spotlight on Industrial Aquaculture