The major American bank is helping fund the Coastal Gaslink pipeline, which threatens First Nation lands in Canada.

“This is a very cheap shot, really a sign of desperate grasping for something to criticise,” a professor of environmental studies said in response to the news.

The major U.S. car producer has a history of supporting climate science denial and lobbying for weaker climate policies.

Campaigners have described the event in Glasgow as a "farce" and a "corporate schmoozefest".

Campaigners say the research shows Total and other oil and gas majors have "stolen the precious time of a generation to stem the climate crisis”.

Campaigners described the newly announced sponsorship deal as "greenwash, plain and simple".

Responding to the analysis, Phil MacDonald, chief operating officer of Ember, said this was “exactly the kind of research that the UK government should be doing before it makes a decision on funding BECCS”. 

Academics have claimed the study "ignores" the risk of zoonotic disease from bushmeat hunting and seeks to "commodify" traditional hunting through tying it to carbon credit markets. 

Campaigners warn that the lack of events on the primary driver of climate change risks focus on the urgent need to keep oil, gas and coal in the ground being lost.

Academics called for the government to “move rapidly” to deliver low carbon heating solutions, in response to the research.