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Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho Took Donation From Climate Science Denial Funder

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Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. Hintze has said that he believes “there is climate change” caused “in part due to human activity over the past century”.

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Kemi Badenoch Accepts £10,000 From Chair of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group

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Conservative Party leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch received £10,000 towards her campaign from the chair of a climate science denial group, DeSmog can reveal. Based in 55 Tufton Street , Westminster, the GWPF is the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

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Conservatives Have Taken £7.2 Million from Climate Denial Group Funders and Directors

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Funders and directors of the UK’s leading climate science denial group have donated more than £7 million to the Conservative Party over the past two decades, DeSmog can reveal. million to the Conservative Party since 2002, including £257,400 in the last year. More than 99.9

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Tom Tugendhat Continues to Question UK Climate Goals

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But despite in 2020 having called climate change “one of the greatest challenges we face”, Tugendhat has repeatedly questioned the UK’s climate goals. The Climate Change Committee (CCC), which advises the government, has a range of detailed policy scenarios for the UK to achieve net zero by 2050. He replied: “No.

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Obituary: Climate science pioneer and former IPCC chair Sir John Houghton

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Editor of landmark IPCC reports – who famously called global warming "a weapon of mass destruction" – has passed away in his native Wales at the age of 88. He become chair of the World Climate Research Programme in 1980 and served as director-general of the UK's Met Office between 1983 and 1987.

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Climate Denial Funder Pumps Another £30,000 into Tory Leadership Race

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The latest register of MPs’ interests shows that James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat each received £10,000 in August from Lord Michael Hintze , a Tory peer who is one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Mapped: The Tory Network of Climate Denial and Fossil Fuel Funding

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It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021, when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise to “irrefutably to turn the tide and to begin the fightback against climate change”. GWPF Donations to Senior Tories Donors to the GWPF are also important funders of the Conservative Party.