Energy accumulates: Ghana shows that the “energy transition” is more myth than fact - Land and Climate Review Industry insiders and academics are often wrong to presume renewables will replace fossil fuels, instead of both growing concurrently, says Gökçe Günel.

“'Maybe we are transitioning in reverse,' said Paul...The energy landscape he had observed did not correspond to the expected timeline of the energy transition."

Read an excerpt from @drgokcegunel.bsky.social's new book @dukepress.bsky.social @riceanthro.bsky.social @patchworkethno.bsky.social

“UK trade unions have been excluded from policymaking around climate. This has completely eroded trust – which needs to be rebuilt.”

@bertiehb.bsky.social and @priestleycentre.bsky.social's Prof. Vera Trappmann discuss the labour movement’s involvement in climate policy.

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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has shone a light on global over-reliance on fossil fuels and why we need to transition away to avoid further crises, says Steve Trent (Steve Trent), founder and CEO of @ejfoundation.org

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EJF Land & Climate Review The fires of Hormuz: how is Trump's war reframing the energy transition? In a guest feature, Environmental Justice Foundation CEO Steve Trent discusses how the Middle East conflict will reshape global energy systems. By Steve Trent 2 April, 2026 Image in the background of solar panels and wind turbines

“The structural vulnerability that produced the crisis - civilisational dependence on a 21-mile waterway - will persist unless political leaders have the courage to lead its elimination.”

In @landclimate.bsky.social, @stevetrent.bsky.social discusses the impact Trump’s war will have on 🌍 energy.

The fires of Hormuz: how is Trump's war reframing the energy transition? - Land and Climate Review In a guest feature, Environmental Justice Foundation CEO Steve Trent discusses how the Middle East conflict will reshape global energy systems.

"The lesson of 2022, when Putin weaponised gas exports against Europe, was not fully absorbed. The Hormuz crisis repeats it with different actors and geography, but identical structural logic..."

Read our new feature from @stevetrent.bsky.social @ejfoundation.org:

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Growing pains: how will the fertiliser crisis affect food supply? - Land and Climate Review Alasdair and Noah Gordon discuss the international and environmental politics of fertilisers.

Growing pains: how will the fertiliser crisis affect food supply?

I joined Alasdair MacEwen to discuss the fertilizer crisis on the Land and Climate Review podcast. landclimate.org/growing-pains/
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“The closure of the Strait of Hormuz does not only affect oil and gas - this is also a fertiliser crisis.”

Alasdair MacEwen and Noah Gordon discuss international threats to food security fuelled by the Iran war on our latest podcast 🔊

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On whether we've already lost the fight (a bit!! But not entirely!!)

On dodgy disclosure

Fabricating demand for gen AI 🤝🏻 fabricating demand for fossil fuels

REALLY lovely to speak to @alimacewen.bsky.social at @landclimate.bsky.social about digital bloat and the power we have to stop it

Sign up: one of the best climate podcasts out there!!.

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Is Big Tech telling the truth about AI's climate impact? - Land and Climate Review Alasdair talks to writer and energy analyst Ketan Joshi about data centres' energy demand and carbon emissions.

Companies "fabricated demand for something that nobody asked for," @ketanjoshi.co tells @alimacewen.bsky.social in an interview debunking tech-sector climate promises.

"In doing so, it's fabricating demand for fossil fuels as well."

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UK accused of 'undermining human rights commitments' over Xinjiang carbon capture aid - Land and Climate Review UK foreign aid helped to develop Chinese fossil fuel extraction in a region where the oil sector is associated with forced labour risks, a new investigation has found.

This investigation is one story within larger subjects that deserve more scrutiny: climate aid transparency, Xinjiang's oil sector, and the UK's spending on carbon capture.

Do get in touch with us if you have any leads to share, or would like to discuss these topics. 🧐

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UK funded carbon capture in Xinjiang during Uighur ‘genocide’ The Foreign Office used the aid budget to help the Chinese as the UN warned of Uighurs being held in ‘re-education’ camps in the oil-producing province

The UK Foreign Office confirmed it holds documents about the grants but said it would not be "appropriate" for civil servants to locate them or answer questions.

Parliamentarians, academics and Uyghur campaigners have criticised the lack of aid transparency.

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UK accused of 'undermining human rights commitments' over Xinjiang carbon capture aid - Land and Climate Review UK foreign aid helped to develop Chinese fossil fuel extraction in a region where the oil sector is associated with forced labour risks, a new investigation has found.

Called 'enhanced oil recovery', UK climate aid funded development of this fossil-fuel extracting tech elsewhere in China and Indonesia in the late 2010s.

Why? Because CCUS proved too expensive otherwise.

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UK funded carbon capture in Xinjiang during Uighur ‘genocide’ The Foreign Office used the aid budget to help the Chinese as the UN warned of Uighurs being held in ‘re-education’ camps in the oil-producing province

The UK grants were supposed to "“reduce global emissions".

But carbon capture (CCUS) in Xinjiang has not been used for decarbonisation - instead, captured CO2 is used to squeeze more oil out of nearly-depleted oil wells.

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UK accused of 'undermining human rights commitments' over Xinjiang carbon capture aid - Land and Climate Review UK foreign aid helped to develop Chinese fossil fuel extraction in a region where the oil sector is associated with forced labour risks, a new investigation has found.

Xinjiang is a fossil-fuel region, home to a third of China's onshore oil, and the US Gov noted risk of Uyghur forced labour in the oil sector in 2021.

Forced-labour transfer schemes were headed by the same authority recieving UK support, at the same time. (China denies such practices occur.)

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The story was broken by @bertiehb.bsky.social and @ben-cooke.bsky.social in @thetimes.com, and uncovered UK Foreign Office grants from 2016-2018 to support Xinjiang's regional government in developing carbon capture technologies.

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UK accused of 'undermining human rights commitments' over Xinjiang carbon capture aid - Land and Climate Review UK foreign aid helped to develop Chinese fossil fuel extraction in a region where the oil sector is associated with forced labour risks, a new investigation has found.

Today we published our latest investigation, into climate aid & carbon capture.

UK funds that could have funded clean energy in poor countries instead developed Chinese oil extraction - including in Xinjiang while Uyghurs were facing human rights abuses.

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What is climate-flation? - Land and Climate Review Edward Robinson sits down with Pete Smith, a global expert on climate change, biodiversity and food systems, to understand what's happening to our fragile grocery supplies chains.

What is "climateflation" and how bad could it get for our weekly food shop? @ejcrobinson sat down with one of the UK's most prominent climate, biodiversity and soils scientists, Pete Smith, to understand his new research programme, with the UK MACC Hub and @aberdeenuni.

We've just published Ted Theisinger‘s review of the late James C. Scott’s “In Praise of Floods” @yalebooks.bsky.social and Ellen Wohl’s “Following the Bend” Princeton University Press Two big new contributions to 'river thought'.

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This week, @bertiehb.bsky.social is joined by Dr. Sanam Mahoozi for a nuanced discussion around the influence of climate and environment on Iranian politics, media, and the recent civil unrest that led to brutal crackdowns and killings.

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Please, listen to our very own Dr Poberezhskaya discussing #Russia and #climatechange.

This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, Alasdair MacEwen is joined by Associate Professor Marianna Poberezhskaya to discuss Russia’s complicated relationship with climate change.

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“A misuse of treaties”: Russian oligarchs are using investor-state disputes to sue Ukraine - Land and Climate Review At least eight ISDS cases have been brought against the Ukrainian government since 2022, a Land and Climate investigation has found.

"There is a deep asymmetry in the aggressor destroying infrastructure and taking lives while the defender faces multibillion claims for sanctioning suspicious investors,” said Svitlana Romanko, Founder of RazomWeStand 🇺🇦

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How Exxon is using international law to sue the Dutch government - Land and Climate Review Exxon owes the people of Groningen millions in compensation for damage caused by gas extraction. Thanks to a legal instrument, it could be the residents of the province that end up compensating the fossil fuel giant.

Camille Corcoran also previously reported on ISDS claims brought against the Netherlands by Shell and Exxon, which have further developed in recent weeks.

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"Shocking and sad": how corporations use investment agreements to block decarbonisation in the Global South - Land and Climate Review Camille Corcoran talks to experts about investor-state dispute settlements, which allow fossil fuel companies to bring multi-billion dollar lawsuits against countries that pass green policies.

The financial stakes of ISDS claims can be devastating. Corcoran previously reported on a 2019 ISDS case where Pakistan was ordered to pay Australian mining company Tethyan Copper more than US$5.8 billion.

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“A misuse of treaties”: Russian oligarchs are using investor-state disputes to sue Ukraine - Land and Climate Review At least eight ISDS cases have been brought against the Ukrainian government since 2022, a Land and Climate investigation has found.

Three ISDS claims against Ukraine have ties to Russian-Israeli billionaire Mikhail Fridman. He is using a Luxembourg subsidiary of ABH Holdings to sue Ukraine for US$1 billion, after the country nationalised Sense Bank.

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"Shocking and sad": how corporations use investment agreements to block decarbonisation in the Global South - Land and Climate Review Camille Corcoran talks to experts about investor-state dispute settlements, which allow fossil fuel companies to bring multi-billion dollar lawsuits against countries that pass green policies.

Corcoran previously interviewed Dr Patricia Ranald, convener of AFTINET, who noted “With national court systems you have independent judges, you have a system of precedents. ISDS doesn’t have any of that.”

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“A misuse of treaties”: Russian oligarchs are using investor-state disputes to sue Ukraine - Land and Climate Review At least eight ISDS cases have been brought against the Ukrainian government since 2022, a Land and Climate investigation has found.

Since being invaded in 2022, Ukraine has faced 8 ISDS claims, which “are a mechanism built into many bilateral and multilateral treaties that enables governments to be sued by foreign investors if their investment in that country is threatened".

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"The devastation Ukraine has suffered under Russian invasion has been observed worldwide, but an accompanying threat has gone unnoticed: the rise of secretive legal challenges from foreign corporations..."

Camille Corcoran in a new LCR investigation: www.landclimate.org/...

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