Briefings for Boris Johnson’s meetings with Gautam Adani at Science Museum reveal museum's role in Adani's lobbying - and the scale of their weapons production ambitions
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Cabinet Office to face Information Tribunal over Adani meetings with former PM including day Science Museum sponsorship announced
Ahead of a First-tier Information Tribunal beginning today, the Cabinet Office has taken the almost unprecedented move of disclosing several briefing documents which relate to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s meetings in 2021 and 2022 with the billionaire Chairman of the Adani Group, Gautam Adani, who has now been indicted by US prosecutors. The Appeal, … Continue reading Cabinet Office to face Information Tribunal over Adani meetings with former PM including day Science Museum sponsorship announced
Royal Bank of Canada: sponsor of genocide
RBC holds over $37 billion worth of investments in companies which are complicit in war crimes. With a history steeped in colonialism and land theft, RBC is deeply invested in the genocide, illegal occupation and apartheid against the Palestinian people.
Calls for Science Museum to drop Adani after arrest warrant issued for billionaire Chairman over alleged $256m bribery plot
An arrest warrant has been issued for Gautam Adani, the billionaire Chair of the Adani Group, on charges of fraud and bribery relating to the ‘Adani Green Energy’ arm of the multinational conglomerate. The move has prompted calls from critics of the Science Museum’s controversial Adani sponsorship deal that it should now spell the end … Continue reading Calls for Science Museum to drop Adani after arrest warrant issued for billionaire Chairman over alleged $256m bribery plot
Old Vic sponsor Royal Bank of Canada targeted over fossil fuels at opening night of ‘The Real Thing’
Advertising van denounces Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) sponsorship of Old Vic at opening night of ‘The Real Thing’ with damning video testimony from those impacted by the bank. RBC is one of world’s biggest fossil fuel financing banks and has billions of investments in companies supplying arms to Israel
Old Vic urged to cut Royal Bank of Canada ties by leading playwrights and actors
A letter to the trustees of the Old Vic Theatre in London, signed by over 80 theatre professionals, names its ‘principal partner’ RBC as ‘one of the world’s biggest financiers of fossil fuel development’
Science Museum drops Equinor sponsorship as it fails to align with 1.5°C Paris target
Science Museum forced to drop Equinor as sponsor after it failed to meet museum’s criteria that its business must align with Paris Agreement 1.5°C target Museum accused of cynically attempting to avoid embarrassment for Norwegian oil and gas firm by burying “seismic shift” under news of UK General Election Pressure grows on museum to now … Continue reading Science Museum drops Equinor sponsorship as it fails to align with 1.5°C Paris target
Culture Unstained is now hosting Fossil Free Pride!
Fossil Free Pride is a grassroots collective formed in 2020 with the aim of breaking the links between queer culture and the fossil fuel industry. Since then it has won victories at nearly 30 Prides across the UK, as well as at high-profile events like the British LGBT Awards.
Minister sought BP input on incentives for maximising North Sea oil drilling, FOI reveals
As BP prepares to announce its Annual Results on Tuesday, it has been revealed that Energy Minister Graham Stuart previously sought the oil and gas company’s input on how to ‘win’ the argument that new North Sea drilling can ensure energy security. Following an FOI request by the campaigns organisation Culture Unstained, meeting notes also … Continue reading Minister sought BP input on incentives for maximising North Sea oil drilling, FOI reveals
Backlash at British Museum after it announces ‘indefensible’ new BP partnership
British Museum branded “out-of-touch” and “indefensible” for signing up to new partnership with oil and gas company BP Campaigners to mount formal challenge to decision to renew relationship with fossil fuel producer and major polluter British Museum increasingly isolated within cultural sector that has all but rejected fossil fuel sponsorship in recent years The British … Continue reading Backlash at British Museum after it announces ‘indefensible’ new BP partnership
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