Phoebe Cooke
phoebecooke.bsky.social
Phoebe Cooke
@phoebecooke.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, writing/editing on climate, energy, food, farming and politics. Co-deputy editor at DeSmog UK @desmog.bsky.social‬ | she/her
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U.S. Oil Executives Flock to COP30

Access by major polluters ExxonMobil and Chevron to the summit is proof that Big Oil still holds “a dangerous sway” over the climate process, campaigners say.

📝 @phoebecooke.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/11/14/u...
U.S. Oil Executives Flock to COP30
Top American oil and gas producers are using trade groups to gain access to this year’s COP30 climate summit in the absence of an official U.S. delegation, DeSmog can report. ExxonMobil and Chevron — ...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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 9:30 AM
As COP30 gets underway in Belém, this great scoop by my colleague @clarecarlile.bsky.social shines a light on coordinated lobbying efforts to influence vital emissions standards.

Read all about it on @desmog.com here👇
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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🔴 NEW - Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30

The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.

📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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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
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🔴 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
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Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.

It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.

www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Stunning @desmog.com story from @geoffdembicki.bsky.social - showing how oil major ExxonMobil bankrolled climate science denial in the global south prior to crucial global summits...

www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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🔴 Timeline: How the Tories Copied Reform’s Anti-Climate Policies

Nigel Farage’s climate denial agenda has been pilfered by Kemi Badenoch’s party
Timeline: How the Tories Copied Reform’s Anti-Climate Policies
Four years after Boris Johnson’s Conservative government hosted the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the party has ditched its environmental credentials – declaring that it would scrap the UK’s net ze...
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October 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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From regenerative agriculture to ‘efficiency is enough' and ‘we feed the world’ narratives - check out these 8 big greenwashing terms ahead of COP30 👇

📝 by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @hazelhealy.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...
Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30
Food and farming companies will claim agriculture is the solution to the climate crisis at the Brazil summit — even though food drives a third of global warming.
www.desmog.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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📍NEW📍 According to satellite readings, levels of methane — a potent climate-heating gas — have risen all along the 878-km Trans Adriatic gas pipeline. At the pipeline's southern Italy terminal, activists are trying to hold regulators and operators accountable.
The Methane Hunters of Melendugno
Data from thermal camera raises questions over scope of climate-damaging pollution from gas imported via Adriatic sea.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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🔴NEW: How a ‘Pro-Climate’ Charity Channelled Cash to a Koch-Funded Think Tank

Opaque funds are masking donations to political causes at home and abroad.

Me, for @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/10/15/h...
How a ‘Pro-Climate’ Charity Channelled Cash to a Koch-Funded Think Tank
A UK charity that portrays itself as a climate leader facilitated a £830,000 donation to the Mercatus Center, a conservative think tank heavily funded by U.S. oil billionaire Charles Koch, DeSmog can ...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Even if the world stopped burning coal, oil and gas tomorrow, what we eat would still be enough to heat the climate beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius, warns the EAT-Lancet Commission.
Food is wrecking the planet. And Europe has lost its appetite for change.
A landmark study says food systems are breaching Earth’s limits. Europe once promised to lead the way, but the revolution fizzled.
www.politico.eu
October 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Regressive, bizarre, stupid... just three of the words that come to mind.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tories pledge to scrap landmark climate legislation
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says her party would axe legally binding targets to cut emissions.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
🔴 “We were treated like slaves,” recalls Mohammed, a graduate from Morocco who was exploited as a fruit-picker in southern France.

Shocking expose reveals how farm owners continue to get €€€ in subsidies despite allegations and convictions of labour abuse 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...
Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse
This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...
www.desmog.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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🔴 Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse

New investigation reveals how farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers rake in millions in subsidies 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...
Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse
This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...
www.desmog.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
🔵 NEW: A pair of far-right European politicians flew 5,000 miles this summer to meet with prominent pro-Trump climate denial group in Tampa, Florida

Feat reactions from @lenaats.bsky.social
& @olivierhoedeman.bsky.social 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/09/19/p...
Pro-Trump Climate Denial Group Meets With Far-Right European Politicians in Florida
Members of the European Parliament flew 5,000 miles to Florida this summer to meet with the head of a U.S. climate denial group, DeSmog can reveal. Freedom Party of Austria’s Harald Vilimsky and Alter...
www.desmog.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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🔴 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
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Trump’s ambassador to the UK has hundreds of millions invested in the Big Tech companies that will benefit from this week's trade deal.

📝 @desmog.com story 👇
Trump Ambassador’s Fortune Intertwined With Big Tech Trade Push
President Donald Trump’s UK ambassador holds investments in the companies set to develop flagship tech projects across the country. U.S. financial records show that Warren Stephens’ family-owned inves...
www.desmog.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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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
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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
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"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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ICYMI

AI 'Slop' Websites publishing climate denial

MSN hosted articles citing fake experts and institutions, posted by group linked to AI-based animal media outlet

This slop used as 'evidence' by climate deniers incl. Heartland institute

(Published while I was away)

My latest for @desmog.com
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
September 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Murdoch-Owned TalkRadio Airs Anti-Climate Attacks Six Times a Day

📝@joeygrostern.bsky.social feat analysis from @stopfundingheat.bsky.social 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/08/21/m...
Murdoch-Owned TalkRadio Airs Anti-Climate Attacks Six Times a Day
TalkRadio bombarded listeners with false climate claims after England recorded its hottest June on record, DeSmog can report.  The channel, which attracts nearly half a million listeners a week, consi...
www.desmog.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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🔴 NEW - Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures

Nigel Farage, the MP for high climate risk Clacton, has said it’s “absolutely nuts” for CO2 to be considered a pollutant.

📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures
Nigel Farage and his fellow Reform UK MPs, many of whom deny basic climate science, represent constituencies exposed to the worst effects of extreme heat, studies show. The UK has this week entered it...
www.desmog.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM