article thumbnail

ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. The present is always being created out of past actions that led to where we are today. Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s

article thumbnail

Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. Lula, who served as President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010 (and is the first President in the country to return for a third term), is known for supporting policies to protect the environment and disenfranchised social groups.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Fusion community mourns death of ITER boss Bernard Bigot aged 72

Physics World

Bigot took over as head of ITER in March 2015 and was almost halfway through his second term as ITER boss, which would have ended in 2025. Following positions at École normale supérieure de Lyon, he became director of the institution in 2000 and then high commissioner for atomic energy in 2003. We will miss him greatly. Sibylle Günter.

2015 102
article thumbnail

'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Books, 2003). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

article thumbnail

Roundup lawsuit: Bayer ordered to pay Pa. man $2.25B after jury finds weed killer caused cancer

Corp Watch

Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (Simon & Schuster, 2003). Books, 2003). The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides by Mitchel Cohen (Skyhorse, January 2019). Forrestal (Simon & Schuster, 1977). June 2007). Smith (Yes!

article thumbnail

Nestlé faces US lawsuit for allegedly false advertising pet food as ‘natural’

Corp Watch

USA: Nestle bottled water operations spark protests amid California drought Rose Hackman | The Guardian | May 20, 2015 Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of two Nestle bottling plants in California on Wednesday to deliver petitions demanding the company stop bottling operations in the drought-stricken state.

article thumbnail

Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report

Corp Watch

USA: Nestle bottled water operations spark protests amid California drought Rose Hackman | The Guardian | May 20, 2015 Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of two Nestle bottling plants in California on Wednesday to deliver petitions demanding the company stop bottling operations in the drought-stricken state.