University funding from fossil fuels slowing switch to green energy – report

Study's authors say integrity of higher education at risk' upon finding lack of attention to role of oil and gas firms

Fossil fuel companies' funding of universities' climate-focused efforts is delaying the green transition, according to the most extensive peer-reviewed study to date of the industry's influence on academia.

For the study, published in the journal WIREs Climate Change on Thursday, six researchers pored over thousands of academic articles on industries' funding of research from the past two decades. Just a handful of them focused on oil and gas companies, showing a worrying lack of attention" to the issue, the analysis says.