"As a majority of global citizens call for bold climate change action, a new push for information integrity aims to neutralize the climate denial that has thwarted ambitious action."
"This year's pivotal UN climate summit in Brazil faces a tidal wave of fake news and disinformation that aims to deflate any unified front on a rapid energy transition away from fossil fuels.
COP30 comes at a time when US president Donald Trump, the leader of the world's largest historical carbon polluter, has launched an unprecedented assault on climate and renewable energy programs.
Since coming to office in January, Trump has used social media to amplify lies about wind energy, for example, claiming that turbines cause cancer and kill whales. He has issued executive orders committed to "unleashing" fossil fuel energy that he calls "affordable and reliable," while falsely claiming that "ideologically-motivated” renewable energy results in job losses and higher energy costs that "devastate" consumers.
Such disinformation ignores the reality that emissions from burning coal, gas and oil are changing the Earth's climate and leading to increased drought, flooding, storms, and deadly heat. ...
The Brazil-led Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change will, for the first time at any UN climate summit, be part of the official COP30 agenda. The scheme aims to fund research, investigative journalism and climate communications campaigns that counter contrarianism and amplify climate science – and solutions."
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