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Clare Carlile
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Investigative Journalist at DeSmog - climate, food and farming | Work covered by the BBC, Guardian, FT, Al Jazeera | She/her
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The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring romantic relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities.

✍️ My latest for @desmog.com
desmog.com DeSmog @desmog.com · Sep 19
🔴 NEW 🔴

‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry

The Animal Agriculture Alliance, which briefs the FBI, has tracked over 2,400 individuals linked to animal welfare and environmental groups.

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
Revealed: ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry
The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. The industry-fun...
www.desmog.com
Day one at COP30 and my first impression is how directly wealth translates to square meter floorspace and flashy screens at the summit

Here is the pavilion for Malawi vs the pavilion for the UK 1/
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
I've made a spreadsheet with the event schedules for COP30 pavilions, including the UK 🇬🇧 Japan 🇯🇵 Indonesia 🇮🇩 Australia 🇦🇺 and China 🇨🇳

The UNFCCC has a schedule list, but hardly any of the major pavilions are on there.

I'll update the list as I collect more ⬇️

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
COP 30 pavilions
docs.google.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
For anyone writing about or going to COP -

Mammoth bit of work from @rachelsherrington.bsky.social and Gil Alessi 👏
🔴 NEW 🔴

Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30

Interactive map shows the food & farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives at COP30 in Brazil and how these are set to navigate the summit

📝 @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi👇

www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
🔴 NEW | U.S. Dairy Industry Push to Water Down Global Emissions Framework

Revelations come as industry expected to gather at this year’s #COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil

📝 Latest from @clarecarlile.bsky.social👇

www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/r...
Revealed: U.S. Dairy Industry Push to Water Down Global Emissions Framework
Trade associations representing some of the largest dairy companies in the world have coordinated efforts to weaken international standards for how corporations measure their carbon emissions.  Expert...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Plans for intensive livestock farms in the UK could lead to over 35million more 🐷 + 🐔 farmed here each year.

Councils are green-lighting these operations despite with patchy or non-existent data.

✍️ for @desmog.com @theguardian.com on research by @sustainweb.org
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’
Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
🔴 NEW: Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’

Data by @sustainweb.org reveals how councils are giving green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data.

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/i...
Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’
Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...
www.desmog.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com
Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election
Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...
www.desmog.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Reading this felt even more shocking having worked on migrant workers rights because
a) states are notoriously lax on finding + convicting abuses
b) few migrant workers can speak out let alone get convictions due to risk of retaliation or exportation

So this millions is the tip of a *huge* iceberg
September 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
If I recommend reading one thing today it's this...

An amazing group of journalists have spent a year tracking the millions in CAP subsidies going to farmers who are being investigated, have been convicted, or are even in prison for violating migrant workers' rights
September 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all
Myself I feel powerless to stop this fascist rise precisely because it feels like all our institutions are just rolling over to it.
September 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring romantic relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities.

✍️ My latest for @desmog.com
desmog.com DeSmog @desmog.com · Sep 19
🔴 NEW 🔴

‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry

The Animal Agriculture Alliance, which briefs the FBI, has tracked over 2,400 individuals linked to animal welfare and environmental groups.

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
Revealed: ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry
The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. The industry-fun...
www.desmog.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
🔴 NEW 🔴

‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry

The Animal Agriculture Alliance, which briefs the FBI, has tracked over 2,400 individuals linked to animal welfare and environmental groups.

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social
Revealed: ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry
The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. The industry-fun...
www.desmog.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
🔴 NEW - The meat industry has been monitoring thousands of animal welfare activists, gathering information on their biological ties and even their romantic relationships.

Vital, shocking exposé from @clarecarlile.bsky.social for @desmog.com
Revealed: ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry
The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. The industry-fun...
www.desmog.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Calls on top prosecutors to investigate Frans Timmermans were widely covered in July, in escalation of NGO funding debate

What wasn't covered: that the group behind them has close ties to the EPP and "coordinated" with a far-right MEP, who denies climate science

✍️ for @desmog.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
🔴 NEW 🔴

Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @phoebecooke.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/09/11/e...
Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints
A taxpayers group with close ties to the European People’s Party (EPP) coordinated with Austria’s far-right in the latest escalation of the NGO funding debate, DeSmog can reveal. The Taxpayers Associa...
www.desmog.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
Day Two of Reform conference, and we're getting the good stuff. At the Heartland Institute's fringe "Is Climate Realism Inevitable", we've learned that electric cars are part of a Marxist plot to control humanity, and heard calls for the abolition of the BBC.
September 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial

- MSN hosted AI-generated conten citing non-existent climate experts and institutions.

- “AI has brought the cost of #disinformation down to nothing. It has automated bullshit”

By @joeygrostern.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...
AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial
At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...
www.desmog.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🔴 10k water quality tests have been cut by the UK's environmental regulator since May, designed to monitor the impacts of sewage, farm runoff and other pollution on rivers & lakes

✍️with the brill @ellieodonnell.bsky.social for @desmog.com & @unearthednews.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/07/23/s...
Staff Shortages Have Forced Major Cuts to Environment Agency Water Quality Monitoring, Internal Documents Reveal
This investigation was published in partnership with Unearthed and the BBC The Environment Agency (EA) has dropped 10,000 water quality tests from its work to ensure the health of England’s rivers and...
www.desmog.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
The Environment Agency has dropped 10,000 water quality tests that track the health of rivers and lakes due to staff shortages at their main lab. Latest from me and
@clarecarlile.bsky.social
EA staff shortages hit water quality testing
unearthed.greenpeace.org
July 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
🔴 NEW - Staff Shortages Have Forced Major Cuts to Environment Agency Water Quality Monitoring, Internal Docs Reveal

Conservationists warn that cancellation of thousands of tests since May will leave a “regulatory and ecological blind spot”

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @ellieodonnell.bsky.social
Staff Shortages Have Forced Major Cuts to Environment Agency Water Quality Monitoring, Internal Documents Reveal
This investigation was published in partnership with Unearthed and the BBC The Environment Agency (EA) has dropped 10,000 water quality tests from its work to ensure the health of England’s rivers and...
www.desmog.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
Reform’s clean energy crackdown would cost 60,000 jobs, wipe £92 billion off the economy, and raise bills, says study
Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study
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...
www.desmog.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
❓Who does Nigel Farage work for?

Since 2024 election:

£93,904 — MP salary (8.7%)

£981,173 — outside income (91%)

GB News (£394k) Direct Bullion (£280k) Cameo (£134k) Telegraph (£48k) Nomad Capitalist (£40k) News Corp Australia (£25k) Arizona LibertyNetwork (£25k)

www.desmog.com/2025/07/15/w...
July 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
[LEAK] While all eyes are on the budget allocated to farm subsidies, the @ec.europa.eu looks set to sneakily insert restrictions on the use of “meaty” names for plant-based foods in the proposal for a CMO regulation to be unveiled on Wednesday..
July 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Reposted by Clare Carlile
NEW: Our months-long investigation traces fat-filled milk powder, the most popular Irish dairy export, on a 3,000 mile journey from Ireland to West Africa 🧵
July 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Leaked proposals suggest EU may end farm subsidies linked environmental projects

CAP accounts for 1/3rd of the EU's budget, and was only recently reformed in 2023 to better support environmental action

Great rundown by @natashafoote.bsky.social @arc2020.bsky.social
www.arc2020.eu/leak-cap-cru...
LEAK: CAP Crumbles as EU Eyes Radical Post-2027 Overhaul
The European Commission is preparing to tear up the architecture of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), in what could set the stage for a radical overhaul of the EU’s farming subsidy programme, acco...
www.arc2020.eu
July 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM