How the public relations profession promotes climate action by offering “solutions” that protect corporate ambition and sacrifice the collective good.

Presentation title: Panel on PR and Climate Obstruction

Event host: London School of Economics

Concrete steps for nonprofit communications professionals to connect their organization to climate realities.

Presentation title: Communicating Climate Change: From Commitment to Action (Part II of II)

Event host: The Communications Network

How Canada’s six largest oil sands companies work to actively oppose climate policy, advocate against regulation to reduce emissions, and push for oil and gas expansion.

Presentation title: Pulling Back the Curtain: The Strategy, Tactics & Tools of Canada’s Fossil Fuel Greenwashing

Event host: Re.Climate Communications Centre

Misinformation isn’t just about sowing controversy over settled science. Strategic communicators insert industrial interests through values of consensus and compromise to weaken the impact of scientific claims that call for a rapid reduction in the causes of climate change.

Presentation title: Strategic Communicators and Misinformation around Science

Event host: National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine

What are the challenges and opportunities for nonprofit communications professionals in the era of climate change?

Presentation title: Communicating Climate Change: Three Proposals for Change in a Warming World (Part I of II)

Event host: The Communications Network

Melissa Aronczyk’s testimony to Congress: How the tactics used by PR firms constitute climate disinformation.

Presentation title: Investigations Subcommittee Hearing: “The Role of Public Relations Firms in Preventing Action on Climate Change.”

Related media

• Congressional Hearing Probes PR’s Work for Big Oil. Provoke Media. 15 September 2022.
• House Committee Investigates the Role of PR Firms in Spreading Climate Disinformation. DeSmog Blog. 14 September 2022.