Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

As there are only about 10 years left before the door closes for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 While a Directive on the energy performance of buildings has been in place since 2002, recast in 2010 and revised in 2018, the results so far have been underwhelming”, says Gillett. The challenge, however, is huge. “75%

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

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). million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. In fact, the International Energy Agency has said that new oil and gas projects are not compatible with keeping warming below 1.5C – an international climate goal that has been adopted by the UK government.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Vinson has also given £49,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. Lord Hintze is also one of the few known donors to the GWPF, while official records show that he has given more than £4 million to the Conservatives since 2002. The party has accepted at least £8.4

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Cerulean, which specialises in floating wind power infrastructure and calls increased North Sea fossil fuel production “vital”, received public funding in January to back its plans to power drilling rigs with offshore wind turbines. Green Party Peer Natalie Bennett said: “We need fossil fuels to stay in the ground.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

While this presents a significant opportunity for the UK to contribute to global efforts against global warming, reaching this target won't become a reality unless the energy sector receives the collaboration it needs from government and stakeholders to remove existing technical obstacles and regulatory barriers.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In 2002 Governor Davis announced the need for 28,000 new teachers. Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. So I decided to become a teacher. Were there particular “big ideas” or concepts that you found could hit home time and time again?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

By denying, derailing, delaying, and deflecting meaningful discussions around the sector’s key issues, the agriculture industry is using the same tactics as the tobacco and fossil fuel lobbies. Experts said the promotion was misleading and ignored the global warming impact of UK diets.

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Grist

AUGUST 20, 2021

A study out this week found that 90 percent of media coverage accurately represented the scientific consensus that human activity is driving global warming, looking at thousands of articles from 2005 to 2019. Less than 40 percent gave that response five years ago. At the time, the U.S. A study last year found major U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. In the early 2000s, the challenges faced by the community came to the attention of an environmental justice lawyer named Luke Cole. Early Kivalina Lawsuit.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

While researching my book, I read through hundreds of pages of internal documents from the company, which revealed that Imperial Oil was studying the link between fossil fuels and global warming as early as the 1970s. They were instructed to stress the “many uncertainties” associated with stopping global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

” “Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” Shell executive Ged Davis wrote in a contribution to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published two years later. a worldwide low fossil fuel strategy) or curative (i.e.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Sommers’ statement may be, in fact, one of the most literal examples of how fossil fuel companies are using language to perpetuate their climate denial and fend off action. Arena was one of six employees to resign in 2015 following revelations of the firm’s greenwashing work with fossil fuel lobbies and associations.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

The report was produced by Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaigning wing of climate science denial thinktank the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which Mackinlay’s group is working with to oppose green policies. Fossil Fuels and No Renewables.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

to “drill baby drill” for more fossil fuels as he headlined an event at a climate science denial group in Chicago, Illinois. Conway, and it has received tens of thousands in donations from foundations linked to the owners of Koch Industries – a fossil fuel behemoth and a leading sponsor of climate science denial.

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