Saudi Arabia is driving a huge global investment plan to create demand for its oil and gas in developing countries, an undercover investigation has revealed. Critics said the plan was designed to get countries “hooked on its harmful products”.

Little was known about the oil demand sustainability programme (ODSP) but the investigation obtained detailed information on plans to drive up the use of fossil fuel-powered cars, buses and planes in Africa and elsewhere, as rich countries increasingly switch to clean energy.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    What do you mean?

    Battery manufacturers have as much to gain as anybody else from sustainable energy.

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      11 months ago

      I mean corporate greed will not die with the oil companies, it’ll live on in whomever takes their place