Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Not Save the Oil, Gas, and Plastic Industries
by admin | September 28, 2020
The report documents how long-term systemic declines in the oil and gas industry had been accumulating long before the coronavirus pandemic emerged. Compounded by the impacts of the pandemic and related economic crisis, the industry’s collapse has accelerated, with leading companies losing an average of 45% of their value since the start of 2020.
CONTINUE READINGHow Fracked Gas, Cheap Oil, and Unburnable Coal are Driving the Plastics Boom
by admin | April 16, 2020
How Fracked Gas, Cheap Oil, and Unburnable Coal are Driving the Plastics Boom is the second in an ongoing series, Fueling Plastics, that examines the links between plastics and fossil fuels.
CONTINUE READINGPhilippine environment and climate justice groups demand urgent and concrete actions amid climate emergency declaration
by admin | December 8, 2020
MANILA, Philippines (December 7, 2020) --- Representatives from affected communities, environmental groups, civil society and faith-based organizations demanded urgent and concrete actions from the government amid the declaration of a disaster and climate emergency in the country.
CONTINUE READINGGreen Groups demand ADB to drop WTE incineration from their Energy Portfolio
by admin | September 16, 2020
Green groups belonging to No Burn Pilipinas demand Asian Development Bank (ADB) to stop funding waste-to-energy incineration projects especially in Developing Member Countries like the Philippines. In its statement, NBP urges ADB to refrain from investing in incinerators as energy development and waste management strategies that systematically fail to take a “do no harm”, “precautionary” […]
CONTINUE READINGChemical Recycling: Miracle Cure, or Snake Oil?
by Claire Arkin, GAIA Communications Coordinator | June 22, 2020
Photo by Ella Ivanescu on Unsplash As people around the world call for an end to plastic pollution, the plastic and petrochemical industry has seized upon a silver bullet solution: chemical recycling, or “advanced recycling.” This older, failed technology has been dusted off and breathlessly promoted in industry circles as the answer to plastic pollution, […]
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