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Mostly false: “The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is fully carbon-neutral”

Fact-check, Mostly falseBy Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, DEDecember 19, 2022

The World Cup in Qatar is advertised as the first fully carbon neutral tournament. Skepticism about this claim is widespread. Can a major sporting event in a country that is strongly reliant on fossil fuels really produce zero carbon emissions? We checked this claim and found out that it is mostly false: FIFA has highly…

Mostly true: “In September, wind energy only produced 2% of the energy needs”

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy AP University College, BEDecember 2, 2021

On 5 October 2021, British broadcaster and former politician Nigel Farage made a statement about wind energy in September 2021. During the show “FOX Business” on the broadcaster FOX he said that “in September wind energy only produced 2% of the energy needs”. This statement is mostly true. Nigel Farage is a British broadcaster and…

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Mostly false: Bitcoin’s “rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels”

Fact-check, Mostly falseBy Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, DEJuly 6, 2021

Elon Musk criticises Bitcoin for its enormous energy consumption of fossil fuels. Without further ado, he drops it as a payment option at Tesla, whereupon the Bitcoin price falls rapidly. Musk is mostly right about the greenhouse gas emissions involved in Bitcoin mining, but he is mostly wrong about the trend. Creating and destroying values…

Mostly true: “The UK is setting the most ambitious target to cut emissions in the world”

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy Artevelde University of Applied Sciences, BEMay 28, 2021

The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his country is cutting carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 in what he claims is ‘the most ambitious target in the world’. He made this claim on the 20th of April 2021, days after it was agreed stronger pledges were necessary to tackle climate change. The claim turns…

Blog: Skipping class for climate

BlogpostBy AP University College, BEFebruary 7, 2019Leave a comment

As Belgians, the past few weeks we have experienced weekly youth demonstrations for a better climate policy. Since the youth demonstrations of May ’68, which changed the political landscape at that time, we haven’t had such relentless passion for change. There is no doubt that climate change is one of the hottest topics right now.

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