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It specifically demands that governments hold media, advertising technology, and tech companies accountable by encouraging them to adopt a universal definition of climate disinformation, increase transparency, and stop the monetization of false content. The signatories advocate for the adoption of the UN's Global Principles for Information Integrity to foster a healthier online environment and support the goals of the Paris Agreement and IPCC scientific consensus.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000041#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The signatories argue that climate disinformation is promoted by hidden interests and damages the information ecosystem, thereby hindering the progress of crucial negotiations such as COP 29 and the G20 Summit in Brazil.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000041#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The letter proposes a universal definition of climate disinformation as deceptive online behavior that undermines the IPCC scientific consensus and Paris Agreement goals, distorts scientific data to erode trust in experts, or falsely claims support for climate goals through practices like greenwashing.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000041#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Governments are urged to pressure tech and media companies to implement specific safeguards, including preventing the monetization of climate disinformation, providing researchers with data access, and using 'inoculation' efforts to build user resilience against false content.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000041#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The document calls for the adoption of the UN's Global Principles for Information Integrity, launched in June 2024, as a comprehensive framework to address the global disinformation crisis.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000041#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate change disinformation","greenwashing","climate policy","Paris Agreement","Fossil fuel advertising","climate finance","climate change mitigation","climate change adaptation"],"geography_discussed":["Baku","Brazil"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":[]},{"id":"caad-000059","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/caad-000059","title":"Open Letter: Governments Should Act Now to Curb Climate Disinformation","publisher":{"name":"Climate Action Against Disinformation","organization":"climate-action-against-disinformation"},"document_type":"statement","language":"en","date_published":"2024-11-14","source_url":"https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Open-Letter_-Governments-Should-Act-Now-to-Curb-Climate-Disinformation-1.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed"],"summary":{"text":"The document argues that climate disinformation, driven by vested interests and enabled by big tech, undermines global climate negotiations and public safety. 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It argues that coordinated disinformation, primarily funded by the fossil fuel industry, sabotages the energy transition, threatens public health and human rights, and undermines the goals of the Paris Agreement. 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It highlights how disinformation operations weaponise extreme weather events, such as wildfires, to decouple them from environmental drivers and fuel opposition to climate policies. Additionally, the analysis reveals that eight fossil fuel advertisers spent at least $17.6 million on Meta for over 700 million impressions to greenwash their image and lobby for US policy changes. The document warns that degrading researcher access to data is hindering the ability to track these trends and argues that systemic architectural problems and profit motives must be addressed rather than relying solely on fact-checking.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000012#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Big Tech platforms continue to host a small number of 'super-spreaders' who disseminate debunked claims targeting electric vehicles and renewable energy, some of which are similar to claims from COP26. 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The analysis categorizes the disinformation into six primary narratives: mockery of advocates, concerns over food and gas stoves, opposition to diversity, scientific denialism, conspiracy theories like the 'Great Reset', and accusations of hypocrisy and elitism.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000033#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Tenet Media's branded channels and funded content creators actively spread climate disinformation that mirrors other far-right and fossil-fuel backed narratives, including standard denialism, conspiracy theories, and attacks on LGBTQ+ and intersectional climate advocacy.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000033#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Between September 1, 2023, and September 23, 2024, 183 posts from Tenet-associated creators—who collectively have over 16 million followers—promoted climate disinformation, resulting in more than 23.5 million views and over 1 million social engagements.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000033#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"X/Twitter served as the primary platform for this disinformation, accounting for 19.4 million views, 290,000 likes, and 144,000 retweets. 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It distinguishes between misinformation (unintentional) and disinformation (deliberate) and highlights the role of social media 'mis-/disinfluencers'. To counter these trends, the briefing recommends systemic platform policies, government regulation, and psychological interventions such as prebunking and debunking.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000042#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) coalition defines climate mis-/disinformation as content that undermines the IPCC scientific consensus and Paris Climate Agreement goals, misrepresents data to erode trust in experts, or falsely presents warming-contributing efforts as supportive of climate goals.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000042#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Climate mis-/disinformation is categorized into contrarian claims—such as denying global warming or its human cause—and 'discourses of climate delay,' which acknowledge climate change but justify inadequate action or redirect responsibility.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000042#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The climate change counter-movement (CCCM) is a coordinated network including fossil fuel corporations, industry trade associations, conservative think tanks, foundations, politicians, and PR firms that obstruct climate action.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000042#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate change disinformation","greenwashing","climate finance","fossil fuel industry","Paris Agreement","climate justice"],"geography_discussed":["United States"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["conceptual framework","tactical analysis","policy recommendation"]},{"id":"caad-000044","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/caad-000044","title":"CLIMATE OF MISINFORMATION: RANKING BIG TECH","publisher":{"name":"Climate Action Against Disinformation","organization":"climate-action-against-disinformation"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2023-09","source_url":"https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Climate-of-Misinformation.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report evaluates Meta, TikTok, Twitter/X, YouTube, and Pinterest using a 21-point assessment system focused on policy content, transparency, advertising, privacy, and enforcement. Pinterest is identified as the industry leader, while Twitter/X is ranked lowest. The analysis highlights systemic failures across most platforms, including a lack of universal definitions for climate misinformation, poor enforcement of existing rules, and a failure to address greenwashing.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000044#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Pinterest is the top-performing platform in the assessment, leading the industry in policies designed to mitigate climate misinformation, including the use of a comprehensive definition that covers climate denial, greenwashing, and misinformation regarding climate solutions and environmental disasters.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000044#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Twitter/X is the lowest-ranked platform, receiving only one point due to a lack of clear climate misinformation policies, an absence of substantive public transparency mechanisms, and no evidence of effective policy enforcement following Elon Musk's acquisition.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000044#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"While Meta, TikTok, and YouTube have made commitments to address climate misinformation, independent research indicates that enforcement is lacking. Examples include a 2023 BBC investigation into TikTok's failure to remove climate denial content and 2022 research showing Facebook failed to flag at least half of climate misinformation content.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000044#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Most platforms fail to address greenwashing in their content moderation or advertising policies, with Pinterest being the only platform to receive credit for incorporating greenwashing into its advertising policies.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000044#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a widespread failure to enforce climate misinformation policies equitably across different languages. Although TikTok showed intent to do so, research from Media Matters found that Spanish-language climate disinformation spreads rapidly on the platform.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000044#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"All analyzed platforms lack transparency regarding how algorithmic changes impact the spread of climate misinformation, and only Pinterest tracks climate misinformation trends in its reporting.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000044#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate change disinformation","greenwashing","climate finance","fossil fuel industry"],"geography_discussed":["European Union"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy assessment","ranking","benchmarking"]},{"id":"caad-000061","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/caad-000061","title":"Online Challenges For Misinforming Latin America","publisher":{"name":"Climate Action Against Disinformation","organization":"climate-action-against-disinformation"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2023","source_url":"https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Report_Misinforming-Latin-America.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report examines climate misinformation surrounding extreme weather in Latin America, focusing on case studies in Brazil, Chile, and Peru. It finds that highly visible, multi-causal, and emotional events are frequently weaponized by political figures to assign blame to scapegoats or promote conspiracy theories, thereby obscuring the scientific drivers of the climate crisis.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000061#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Extreme weather events are particularly susceptible to misinformation because they are highly visible, multi-causal, and elicit strong emotional responses, which allows actors to advance specific agendas by scapegoating.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000061#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Brazil, a false narrative emerged claiming that September 2023 flooding in Rio Grande do Sul was caused by the opening of dam gates rather than a cyclone; this claim reached at least 5.2 million people and was amplified by right-wing figures to attack the Workers’ Party (PT) government.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000061#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Chile, the 2023 wildfires were framed by some political leadership as primarily the result of 'terrorist' arson, a narrative that distracted from the role of a 14-year mega-drought and climate change.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000061#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Peru, the arrival of Cyclone Yaku in March 2023 triggered conspiracy theories claiming the event was man-made, specifically attributing it to the HAARP project and the Jicamarca Observatory.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000061#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Misinformation narratives around extreme weather typically do not create new tropes but instead amplify existing political tensions and established global climate denialist narratives, such as those involving HAARP or arson.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000061#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"A common tactic in climate misinformation is the deliberate misattribution of causes, shifting the focus from climatic factors to criminal or conspiratorial explanations to hinder the adoption of climate action.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000061#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Some climate misinformation in Latin America is intentionally vague, cherry-picking various historical weather events to argue that such phenomena have always existed, which makes the claims harder to disprove than event-specific lies.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000061#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate change disinformation","extreme weather event","wildfire","flood","tropical cyclone","drought","climate change adaptation","climate change mitigation"],"geography_discussed":["Rio Grande do Sul","Lima","Ecuador","Honduras","Guatemala","Mexico","Colombia","Spain"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["narrative analysis","case study"]},{"id":"caad-000007","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/caad-000007","title":"EV disinfo attracting millions of views on social media during COP27","publisher":{"name":"Climate Action Against Disinformation","organization":"climate-action-against-disinformation"},"document_type":"briefing","language":"en","date_published":"2022-11-18","source_url":"https://caad.info/analysis/briefings/briefing-note-ev-disinfo-attracting-millions-of-views-on-social-media-during-cop27/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The briefing highlights a viral video by John Stossel featuring Mark Mills that spreads debunked claims about EV battery mineral requirements and their impact on global oil consumption. It notes the video's high engagement across YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, and links the content to funding from Koch foundations. The document counters these claims using data from Argonne National Laboratory, IHS Markit, and the Union of Concerned Scientists to affirm that EVs generally emit less carbon over their lifespan than internal combustion engine vehicles.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000007#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"A video by John Stossel discussing \"inconvenient facts\" about electric vehicles (EVs) gained significant traction during the start of COP27, recording 850k views on YouTube, 723k views on Facebook, and 911k views on Twitter within two weeks.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000007#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The video features Mark Mills of the Manhattan Institute, who has received over $1.3 million from Koch foundations since 2014, and the content is further amplified as op-eds in Reason, the Daily Caller, and the Daily Signal.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000007#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The briefing debunks the claim that producing an EV battery requires \"500,000 pounds\" of minerals, noting this has been fact-checked by AFP and USA Today.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000007#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The document disputes Mark Mills' assertion that 500 million EVs would only reduce world oil consumption by about 10%, arguing that based on 2022 data where 19 million zero-emission vehicles avoid almost 1.7 million barrels of oil per day, the actual reduction would be significantly higher.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000007#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Data from Argonne National Laboratory, IHS Markit, and the Union of Concerned Scientists indicate that EVs generally emit less carbon over a 12-year lifespan than diesel or petrol cars, even when powered by a coal-heavy grid.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000007#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["electric vehicle","climate change disinformation","carbon dioxide emissions","fuel consumption","Paris Agreement"],"geography_discussed":["United States","Egypt"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["disinformation monitoring","fact-checking"]},{"id":"caad-000054","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/caad-000054","title":"GREENWASHING ON GOOGLE","publisher":{"name":"Climate Action Against Disinformation","organization":"climate-action-against-disinformation"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2022-11-03","source_url":"https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Greenwashing-on-Google_Final-Report.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) reports that between September 2020 and August 2022, five major oil companies—BP, ExxonMobil, Shell, Aramco, and Chevron—spent $23.7 million on US Google Search ads, with $10.9 million dedicated to greenwashing. The report highlights a discrepancy between these companies' public sustainability claims and their internal documents, while also noting that Google continued to accept $421,000 from the Competitive Enterprise Institute for climate denial ads despite promising to stop doing so.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000054#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Between September 1, 2020, and August 31, 2022, five of the world's largest oil and gas companies—BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and Aramco—spent a total of $23.7 million on US Google Search ads.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000054#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Of the total ad spend, $10.9 million was used for greenwashing ads, which were viewed an estimated 58.6 million times by US users. This included $1.8 million targeting greenhouse gas queries, $1.7 million for renewables, and $1.2 million for carbon offsets.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000054#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"BP was the highest spender on greenwashing ads among the studied companies, investing $5.3 million over two years, which represented nearly 55% of its total Google search ad expenditure.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000054#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"ExxonMobil spent nearly $4 million on greenwashing ads, including $144,904 targeting queries about the Paris Agreement, despite internal planning documents suggesting emissions would exceed the treaty's goals.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000054#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Shell spent approximately $1.2 million on greenwashing ads, including $181,784 on the query “net zero company”, while internal documents state that net-zero is “not a Shell business plan”.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000054#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Saudi Aramco spent $317,710 on greenwashing ads, representing nearly 74% of its total Google ad spend, including ads claiming it is one of the industry's lowest carbon emitters.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000054#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Chevron spent $112,854 on greenwashing ads, the lowest share among the five companies at 3.6% of its total Google Search ad spend.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000054#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Google accepted $421,000 from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) for ads promoting climate denial, such as claims that “fossil fuels make the planet safer”, violating Google's October 2021 promise to prohibit such content.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000054#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["greenwashing","carbon dioxide emissions","Net-zero emissions","carbon capture and storage","renewable energy","Paris Agreement","biofuel","methane","climate finance"],"geography_discussed":["Australia"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["financial analysis","content analysis","policy review"]},{"id":"caad-000035","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/caad-000035","title":"journalist Field Guide","publisher":{"name":"Climate Action Against Disinformation","organization":"climate-action-against-disinformation"},"document_type":"guide","language":"en","date_published":"2022-10","source_url":"https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/CAAD-Journalist-Field-Guide.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The 'journalist Field Guide: Navigating Climate Misinformation' offers a framework for media professionals to handle deceptive climate content. It defines climate misinformation as content that undermines the IPCC scientific consensus, misrepresents data, or falsely promotes climate-supportive efforts. The guide advocates for the 'truth sandwich' debunking method, the use of archive links instead of direct links to avoid monetizing disinformers, and 'strategic silence' to avoid artificially amplifying fringe theories. It also reviews academic literature on revenue incentives for clickbait, the psychological drivers of misinformation, and the risks of 'false balance' in reporting. 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Instead, they should use screenshots, transcripts, or archive services like the Wayback Machine, Perma.cc, GhostArchive, or Archive.Today, and employ 'rel=“nofollow”' HTML code.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000035#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The guide warns against 'false balance' or 'false equivalency,' where reporters feel pressured to present two equal sides of a story even when the credibility of the opposing viewpoints is not comparable, a dynamic frequently used to create doubt about climate science.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000035#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Research indicates that revenue models based on clicks, shares, and page views create a 'race to the bottom' that incentivizes sensationalism and clickbait, which is further complicated by bad-faith publishers financed by vested interests.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000035#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Case studies highlight the role of social media platforms and financiers in spreading climate denial. 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It highlights how these narratives have spread across different regions, including Chile, Spain, Greece, Canada, and Hawaii, often leveraging the 'attention economy' of Big Tech platforms to undermine the link between climate change and increasing wildfire intensity.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000002#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Disinformation regarding wildfires follows a predictable pattern starting with 'core' narratives that act as gateways to more extreme views. These core narratives include 'Arson Deflection', where arson is blamed to dismiss climate change; 'Government Mismanagement', which accuses leaders of distorting narratives to advance a climate agenda; and 'Climate Policy Backlash', which frames climate solutions as harmful or unnecessary.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000002#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Wildfire disinformation narratives are global and cross-linguistic, with specific patterns tracked from the 2018 Greek wildfires to Chile and Spain, and subsequently to Canadian and Hawaiian wildfires.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000002#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"In Canada, the spread of wildfire disinformation—including claims about lasers, drones, and state-driven arson—has had tangible negative impacts on crisis management, affecting firefighting, evacuation routes, and public health decisions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000002#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Specific industry-backed organizations in Canada, namely The Fraser Institute and the Macdonald Laurier Institute, are identified as arguing that extreme weather and wildfires are not worsening due to climate change.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"caad-000002#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate change disinformation","wildfire","forest management","climate policy","electric vehicle"],"geography_discussed":["Chile","Spain","Greece","Hawaii","United States"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["narrative analysis","trend monitoring"]},{"id":"caad-000020","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/caad-000020","title":"Our Policy Asks","publisher":{"name":"Climate Action Against Disinformation","organization":"climate-action-against-disinformation"},"document_type":"statement","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://caad.info/policy-asks/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document argues that current government and platform policies have failed to curb climate disinformation, which is used by polluting industries and petrostates to delay the transition to a green economy. 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