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Polina Zabrodskaya was well on her way to the top of the creative advertising game. But when she challenged her senior management on whether a major client’s environmental and labour-related claims were true, she says her career path quickly crumbled. Now, Zabrodskaya is taking her former employer, AMV BBDO, to an employment tribunal. She charges that […]

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Food firms are inflating their climate targets with carbon removals and weak deforestation claims, according to a report from the NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch. With the COP30 climate summit in Brazil later this year widely expected to focus on agriculture, the report has raised concerns about high levels of corporate greenwashing and a lack […]

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In the local elections on 1 May, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK took control of 10 councils and two regional mayoralties. The party vowed to scrap climate initiatives in the authorities, and has reportedly already set up an Elon Musk-inspired “DOGE” (Department of Government Efficiency) at Kent County Council in order to identify potential cuts to […]

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Elon Musk’s time in the federal government is entering a new phase, the White House has confirmed. But the work he began at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the hastily renamed agency he’s used to make legally questionable changes within the federal government, will clearly continue. “DOGE is a way of life. Like Buddhism,” he […]

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Reform UK’s policies to “scrap net zero” would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, according to a new study. Nigel Farage’s party — which took control of 10 councils in the recent local elections — this week claimed that the government could save £45 billion every year by […]

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Canada’s new energy minister Tim Hodgson is getting mixed messages from Pathways Alliance, the lobby group representing six of the largest oil sands producers. On one hand, the members claim to be moving forward with a massive carbon capture and storage (CCS) proposal that will only become economically viable through billions in public subsidies and […]

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Donald Trump’s officials and allies have flocked to Poland this week as they try to turn the tide in favour of far-right candidate Karol Nawrocki ahead of Sunday’s presidential ballot. Key MAGA influencers – including Trump’s own head of Homeland Security – attended CPAC Poland on 27 May, urging Poland to elect Nawrocki of the […]

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