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Tory Donors Have Pumped Almost £7 Million into Tufton Street Since 2019

DeSmogBlog

Vinson has also given £49,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. In 2011, just a year after entering Parliament, Truss founded the Free Enterprise Group of backbench Conservative MPs described as the “parliamentary wing” of the IEA.

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

DeSmogBlog

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. Britain is now their laboratory,” he added.

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Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and the Fraunhofer USA TechBridge Program Announce the Carbon to Value Initiative

Greentown Labs

According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. NYSERDA is supporting the C2V Initiative through the ACRE incubator at the Urban Future Lab. Collaborations such as this will help to solve the climate problems.”.

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Greentown Labs Announces Three New Members to its Board of Directors, Appoints Board Chair

Greentown Labs

Incubator welcomes public and private industry leaders to scale its climate impact. 13, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, today announced three new board members, Katherine Hamilton , Chair of 38 North Solutions ; Dawn James , U.S. Somerville, Mass., About Greentown Labs.

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Tufton Street Descends on Reform UK Conference

DeSmogBlog

Between 2019 and 2023, the ASI accepted £40,000 from Nigel Vinson – one of the few known donors to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group – and £40,000 from Tory peer Lord Jon Moynihan. As DeSmog has revealed , Farage’s party received £2.3 to “drill baby drill” for more fossil fuels.

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Tufton Street Linked Donors Have Given £630,000 to the Conservatives Since Sunak Became Prime Minister

DeSmogBlog

As revealed by DeSmog this week, a firm owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups – also donated £20,000 in March to House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox. They incubated Truss and Kwarteng during their early years as MPs.