Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020” report , released on 5 October, documents the loss of approximately 14 per cent of the world’s coral since 2009. The longer-term decline seen during the last decade coincided with persistent elevated SSTs. We are running out of time: we can reverse losses, but we have to act now.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) was founded by Margaret Thatcher’s former Chancellor Nigel Lawson in 2009 in order to combat what it describes as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The founder and honorary president of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has announced he will be retiring from parliament. The article neglects to mention that Lawson also set up the influential Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) think tank, a major source of climate science denial and unwavering supporter of fossil fuels.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The framing is intended to draw attention to the radical changes that global warming might bring. Gladwell recounted in 2009. The concept was quickly embraced by scientists trying to raise the alarm about global warming. Whats for sure is that with every tiny amount of global warming, the risk continues to grow.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

Emeritus Fellow Professor Peter Dobson has defended his decision to accept a position on the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)’s academic advisory council, just weeks after his colleague Professor Peter Edwards joined the organisation as trustee.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Vinson, a supporter of the late Margaret Thatcher, has previously donated nearly £50,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) through his own charity. The GWPF was founded in 2009 by climate denier Nigel Lawson , the ex-chancellor, to combat “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to mitigate climate change. .

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , a director of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has been reappointed by the government as an adviser to the prestigious Board of Trade. Meller Designs was referred to the VIP lane by Gove’s office.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Graham Stuart MP was listed as a keynote speaker on Tuesday at the four-day Global Investment in Sustainable Development conference in London, hosted by the CC Forum, a company which touts itself as the “green Davos”. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?” in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”,

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Billionaire Australian hedge fund manager Michael Hintze, one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), is set to receive a peerage, according to a Sunday Times report over the weekend. In April, the GWPF published a paper claiming that there is “no evidence of a climate crisis”.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Charlie Baker, Massachusetts' Republican governor, recently committed the state to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a legally binding limit backed by the state's 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act. Progress on emissions from heating lags power sector. Annual U.S. So what are the options?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Professor Ray Bates, an Emeritus Professor at University College Dublin , has been appointed to the academic advisory council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Climate ‘Contrarian’. Bates told DeSmog that he was unable to publish the piece elsewhere through a peer-reviewed process as it was “rejected unilaterally”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Baker’s appointment was announced on Wednesday and he today stepped down from his role as a trustee at the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , the UK’s most influential climate science denial think-tank. Arch Critic of Climate Policies.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Climate change is one of the most complex and critical challenges facing the world, and the finance sector has a vital role to play in efforts to limit global warming," it said. However, Macquarie still plans to continue to fund oil and gas developments. "We

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming. August 18, 2009. Indeed, Exxon says it has spent only $300 million on its algae biofuels research since 2009, according to the Wall Street Journal , a rounding error for the company.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

By 2020 the firm had achieved a 73 per cent carbon intensity reduction in its Scope 1 and 2 emissions from a 2009 baseline, largely through a focusing on improving the energy efficiency of its properties, which in total amount to 22.8 million square feet of floor space.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

The Conservative Party’s ties to organised climate denial go back at least to 2009, when the late Tory peer Nigel Lawson , who was chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher, founded the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 2016, Theresa May received a £15,000 donation from Ian Taylor, chair and former global chief executive of Vitol Group, the Dutch oil and shipping company.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

As such, the former Labour leader emphasised the importance of spreading the positive messages associated with climate action, rather than dwelling solely on the huge threats posed by global warming. He said it was an "incredible honour" to present the award to Betts, with whom he worked at the 2009 Copenhagen Summit. "He

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

2009; Steffen, W., We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C Source: Stockholm Resilience Centre PBs represent a conceptual framework of the effect of ongoing unlimited human activities on the limited capacity of the earth.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the effort to limit global warming to 1.5C – the legally-binding limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The OfS is the higher education regulator in England, which works to protect the interests of students.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

Hintze, an Australian hedge fund manager who is set to join the House of Lords, is one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). The GWPF, founded by former chancellor Lord Lawson in 2009, is working with MPs to campaign against net zero.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Although SF6 is non-toxic, the gas is one of the most potent GHGs with a global warming potential of 23,900 and an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. For comparison, carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1.

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Business Green

JULY 10, 2020

He is the 63 year old founder-director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). It simply notes that "donations can be made to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the charitable arm of our think tank, or to the American Friends of the GWPF".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Students for Liberty has received over $1 million in funding since 2009 from the philanthropic organisations of Charles Koch, who co-owns Koch Industries – one of the largest privately-held companies in the US – which trades heavily in oil and gas. Consumer Choice Center was part of US-based Students for Liberty until 2020.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The nations of the world agreed in 2009 to hold global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 What are the most effective things we can do individually to help reverse global warming? Without bees, ants, or any number of other species, there’s no us. The so-called “1.5-degree Act and never stop fighting.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The report, which was funded by the Zurich Flood Insurance Alliance, looked at the level of climate finance so far committed by 23 developed nations which signed up to the $100bn a year goal in 2009. It concluded the UK was one of 20 countries which are still not paying their 'fair share' towards the collective target.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A new report released by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network found that up to 14% of the world’s coral reefs have been depleted due to climate change between the years 2009 and 2018. In the period under review, mass coral bleaching events were experienced due to warming waters.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The nations of the world agreed in 2009 to hold global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (about 3.6 What are the most effective things we can do individually to help reverse global warming? Without bees, ants, or any number of other species, there’s no us. The so-called “1.5-degree Act and never stop fighting.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests that carbon sequestering can reduce human generated CO2 up to 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050 (Fairley, 2009). Fifty years ago, climate models accurately predicted that greenhouse gases cause global warming (Hausfather et al, 2020). Fairley, P.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

West Cumbria suffered a " once-in-a-thousand-year " flood in 2009. To limit global warming to 1.5C And then again in 2015. No, it's not that meteorologists can't count. Achieving net zero emissions by 2050 means starting the transition now.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In addition, aviation also produces non-CO 2 emissions such as contrails which are estimated to cause a greater global warming effect than aviation CO 2. For example, in 2009, the International Air Transport Organisation (IATA) was aiming for 10% biofuels by 2017 (see link p.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Finally, Growth Energy asserts that the LCFS amendments violate the Global Warming Solutions Acts mandate to minimize costs, maximize benefits, and ensure equitable treatment arguing that the new ethanol requirements disproportionately impact ethanol producers and low-income communities.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A board member of a new MP-backed ‘Net Zero Watch’ campaign group has said today that “global warming is not a problem”, defended burning fossil fuels, and said carbon dioxide’s “principal effect” is the growth of plants. Net Zero Watch and the Global Warming Policy Foundation did not respond to a request for comment. .

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Gove and Badenoch will also be speaking alongside Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, who has called climate change a “hoax”, and former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott – a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group. In December 2015, Patrick J.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. “It was the most controversial and heated debate in the workshop,” recalls Rijsberman, now director of the Global Green Growth Institute. It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. Another time jump.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 9, 2024

In another article in September 2023, Brasil Paralelo defended the idea that global warming legitimizes NGOs’ actions pushing international actions such as the Paris Agreement, which the platform claims keeps developing countries producing less while first-world countries maintain their production. and European agricultural markets.

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