Meet the Combustible Cartoon Character Who Wants to Make Kids Feel Sorry for Fossil Fuels A new children’s book by a Chevron-backed clean energy venture paints a sympathetic portrait of coal, oil, and gas.

Meet Fossi — a cartoon character I just discovered who wants kids to feel sorry for the fossil fuel industry.

He was invented by a clean energy company.

Read the full @desmog.com story to find out why: www.desmog.com/2026/04/01/m...

See our reporting also in @dagensnyheter.bsky.social

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In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds Doctors and models extol the virtues of meat as climate impacts of industrial farming face scrutiny at COP30 — the global climate summit.

At COP30 in the Amazon, Big Agribusiness interests were everywhere.

During the summit, @desmog.com and @apublica.org revealed how the industry ramped up its use of Brazilian social media influencers to maintain its social license ahead of the summit.

www.desmog.com/2025/11/16/i...

Agência de publicidade da Shell comemora que campanha de ‘energia verde’ em novela vendeu mais combustíveis | Intercept Brasil VML admite, em relatório, que discurso de sustentabilidade veiculado no horário nobre e nas redes sociais buscava fortalecer a marca e tinha como um dos objetivos fazer a petrolífera vender mais.

My latest COP30 investigation for @desmog.com and The Intercept Brasil:

*Documents reveal Shell used clean energy ads to drive petrol sales in Brazil*

The tactics were designed by ad agency VML, owned by British ad giant WPP.

www.intercept.com.br/2025/11/07/a...

www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/r...

Revealed: Prince William’s Climate Prize Hired PR Firm Tied to Brazilian Fossil Fuel Industry The agency — LLYC Brasil —promoted upcoming Earthshot Prize ceremony in Rio de Janeiro while under contract to oil giant Petrobras.

My latest for @desmog.com and @climainfo.org.br reveals that the PR firm promoting Prince William's blockbuster climate award The Earthshot Prize — taking place in Rio de Janeiro tomorrow — is also a longtime partner of the Brazilian fossil fuel industry.

Full story: www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/r...

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✍ Yesterday I was named one of @coveringclimatenow.org's 'Emerging Journalists of the Year 2025' ✍

Reflection of the efforts of the whole team at @desmog.com and every source brave enough to take a stand — every story is a collaboration.

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Exclusive: Ad Giant IPG Accused of Breaking 'Industry First' Climate Policy With Work for World’s Biggest Oil Company Firm’s top London consultants planned to help Saudi Aramco influence policymakers, leaked documents reveal.

After months of interviews and sourcing documents, we reveal ad giant IPG is accused of breaking its ‘industry first’ climate policy for its work with the world’s biggest oil company.

Read here on @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2025/08/25/i...

Also in @financialtimes.com: on.ft.com/422nMkH

Q&A: Why an Advertising Executive Is Blowing the Whistle on Her Agency’s 'Greenwashing' Former BBDO Creative Partner Polina Zabrodskaya: “It’s devastating to know your work causes real harm, so people suppress that knowledge.”

New interview today with @desmog.com today on a topic close to my heart:

**Why an Advertising Executive Is Blowing the Whistle on Her Agency’s 'Greenwashing'**

www.desmog.com/2025/06/03/w...

How A British-owned PR Firm Helped ‘Squash’ Pipeline Protests in Uganda MetropolitanRepublic enlisted social media influencers to promote giant oil project as climate campaigners suffered beatings and arrests.

👀 Big day yesterday in the ad industry 👀

British ad firm WPP hit with complaint it broke standards set by the international body OECD by working with big polluters.

Two of my stories, including on WPP's astroturfing in Uganda (shorturl.at/M6bUQ), cited as evidence.

Read more: shorturl.at/1o0D5

Merci @disclosengo.bsky.social d'avoir partagé mon enquête sur une campagne de désinformation de TotalEnergies pour créer une fausse image de soutien à EACOP dans votre newsletter Planète Investigation, publiée originalement avec @desmog.bsky.social.

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It’s Not Just Oil Giants Seeking to Sway the Climate Talks. Their Favourite PR Firms Are in Baku, Too. Fossil-friendly communications companies are represented on some national delegations to the climate talks, DeSmog analysis finds.

Spent this week analysing COP29 delegates - found dozens of consultants from fossil fuel-friendly PR agencies registered with national delegations.

They're from 10 agencies that collectively hold at least 91 fossil fuel contracts.

Full story with @desmog.bsky.social: www.desmog.com/2024/11/20/i...

Meet Teneo: The Global PR Firm Promoting COP29 Host Azerbaijan as a Climate Champion A secret recording. Damaging headlines. Allegations of “treason.”  For Azerbaijan, host of the COP29 climate talks opening in the capital Baku on Monday, reports that a senior official had apparently ...

"It's basically cash for access."

I spoke to employees at global PR firm Teneo about its $5 million contract to paint #COP29 host Azerbaijan as a climate champion, and dug into the firm's extensive links to the fossil fuel industry for @desmog.bsky.social: www.desmog.com/2024/11/08/m...