- March 23, 2024
- Posted by: kevbha
- Category: News
Adani – Modi’s billionaire backer – allowed to greenwash using London’s Science Museum
On March 25, London’s Science Museum opened its Green Energy gallery, following a major protest the previous Saturday by climate justice, the South Asian diaspora and Palestinian organisations.
The gallery is sponsored by Adani Green Energy, a company owned by Indian billionaire businessman Gautam Adani’s self-named conglomerate, the Adani Group.
“Adani’s long-standing connections with the far-right regimes of India and Israel set this sponsorship apart”
The ultimate exercise in greenwashing, the Green Energy gallery sits at the intersection of multiple interrelated issues — the overarching question of corporate sponsorship of cultural institutions, and the specific context of the Adani Group’s track record.
Adani’s sponsorship of the Science Museum is not a new development.
The deal was first announced in 2021, and UK climate activists — led by organisations including Extinction Rebellion and Culture Unstained — have consistently been campaigning both against the Adani sponsorship and against the museum’s other sponsorship deals with oil giants including Shell, BP and Equinor.
But Adani’s long-standing connections with the far-right regimes of India and Israel set this sponsorship apart.
Much of the discourse among climate activists concerning Adani has centred on the displacement of Adivasi (indigenous) communities and local wildlife through coal mining across large parts of India, as well as the notorious Adani mine in Queensland, Australia.
However, Adani and his billions have also bankrolled Narendra Modi’s far-right Hindu supremacist Indian government and been involved in the production of weapons used by the Israeli military in their ongoing onslaught against the people of Gaza, having announced a joint weapons manufacturing venture with Israel Weapon Industries back in 2018.
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