The Carbon Accounting Alliance has CANCELLED a booking to hold its annual conference at the Science Museum on the 6th October. It has now switched venues to Senate House in Bloomsbury. It says the decision came after its members raised concerns about the Museum’s fossil fuel sponsorship!
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From London Mining Network:
UK finance fuels environmental destruction around the world. In the House of Lords @nataliebennettgreen spoke out about how the world’s largest private coal developer, the Adani Group, is causing devastation and displacement in India, while being backed by UK banks and sponsoring the Science Museum’s green energy wing. She shared findings from our joint briefing with @culture_unstained and Spotlight on Corruption, urging action from the UK government to address the historic and ongoing harms of UK-linked mining.
Communities resisting the toxic impact of mining deserve justice! The mining industry and the mechanisms that enable it must be scrutinised and held to account.
Culture Unstained reports:
Today, we’re revealing damning new details behind BP’s current sponsorship of the museum’s ‘Science Museum Group Academy’ for training educators across the country. While the museum continues to claim that it ‘retains editorial control of the content within our exhibitions and galleries’ – that BP and other sponsors have had no say over its curatorial or programming decisions – we’ve discovered how the multi-year research project that led to the creation of the museum’s Science Museum Group Academy was funded – and chaired – by BP, with the company able to directly veto decisions over the project’s direction.
Fossil Free Science Museum met @greenpartyzack at @nebriefing who SLAMS fossilfuel sponsors of the @sciencemuseum, @bp_plc and Adani:
"Basic science starts with the right information, and you can't have the right information with vested interests. BP and Adani have no place in our Science Museum and we need to get them out."
- Zack Polanski, Green Party Leader
📖 Zack is holding is holding "An Unravelling Tragedy" : a book about Science Museum sponsor Adani's human rights and environmental abuses from India to Australia.
🔥 Adani is the world's second biggest coal producer (CoalExit list 2025) while BP has pledged to go "all out" for oil & gas.
🇵🇸 Adani is in a joint venture with Elbit systems which produce drones used in the Gaza genocide, while BP's oil flows to the Israeli military.
The Canary reports that: Activists have taken on a genocide and climate change-linked arms and fossil fuel firm on London. Adani Group, who are based in India, have perversely been allowed to sponsor the ‘green gallery’ at the Science Museum. Hundreds of teachers have threatened a boycott.
Opponents of the green-washing project projected the words ‘Drop Adani’ onto the museums and demonstrated outside. They also put up posters which read “Our energy revolution fuels genocide” and “Our energy revolution runs on firepower”.
The campaign describes Adani as “the world’s second largest developer of coal power”.
The Canary reports that: On Monday 15 September, the Science Museum in London held a private cocktails and canapés reception for one of its key sponsors, genocide profiteer and prolific human rights violator Adani.
In the wake of this, campaigners are ramping up calls for a full cultural and educational boycott of the museum for its gross greenwashing for big polluters.
At the UN Expert Mechanism for Rights of Indigenous Peoples 18th Annual Session at 02:34:30 there is an Australian statement specifically on behalf of W&J tribes against the Adani Group Carmichael mine - https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1a/k1asser1c3?kalturaStartTime=9270