DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

The firm is owned by Terence Mordaunt , a director and former chair of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. The party’s manifesto falsely claims that “scientists disagree as to how much” humans have had an impact on global warming.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. As the number of global internet users has grown, so too has demand for data center services, giving rise to concerns about growing data center energy use. households (U.S.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Photo: Getty Images Nearly 200 countries have pledged to triple global renewable energy capacity by the end of the decade — a goal that’s “within reach” as long as governments act fast, according to a new report. The International Energy Agency (IEA) released its roadmap today for how countries can make it happen.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

Since 2015, Stringer has been a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a group founded to contradict established climate science and advocate against policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Stringer has vocally questioned climate science and policies to achieve net zero emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Neil Record , a millionaire Tory donor and founder of the investment firm Record Financial Group, is chair of Net Zero Watch (NZW), the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Labour MP Graham Stringer is a director of the GWFP, having joined its board of trustees in 2015.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho accepted a £2,000 donation in January from Lord Michael Hintze , a funder of the UK’s leading climate science denial pressure group, DeSmog can reveal. Michael Hintze, Claire Coutinho, and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero were approached for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 3, 2024

When he was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), the party’s 2015 and 2017 election manifestos pledged to rip up green measures, repeal the UK’s Climate Change Act, withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement – the flagship deal to tackle global emissions – and support fossil fuel extraction.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The report, published by the UN Environment Programme-hosted Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), finds that in 2020, the sector accounted for 36 per cent of global final energy consumption and 37 per cent of energy related CO2 emissions, as compared to other end use sectors. What comes next?

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Business Green

MAY 3, 2022

Seven years after the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, a large majority of country signatories and hundreds of companies have committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. At the same time, emissions have rocketed, with global annual CO2 emissions rising to 36.3 gigatons in 2015, further jeopardising the 1.5C

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. They straddle climate change, the role of biomass energy, greenhouse gas emissions from different oil feedstocks, policies towards slashing emissions in transport, buildings and infrastructure, and the interactions between climate change and human health.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The articles have all been critical of current policies to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions and ensure the transition to renewable energy. The idea of “an energy transition that will dramatically reduce the use of fossil fuels and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is a fantasy”, wrote Blackmon on 16 August.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is especially fitting as the conference is taking place seven years after the signing of the Paris Agreement – a legally binding international treaty that commits countries to limiting global warming to below 2 (and preferably below 1.5) degrees Celsius.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Alongside the policy discussions on how to reach the Paris Agreement of 2015 and limit global warming to 1.5⁰C, While it has typically been used in agriculture and forestry, its applications are rapidly expanding into areas including construction and renewable energy.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2024

As DeSmog has reported , Lord Spencer is the largest shareholder in Deltic Energy, which earlier this year received licences to explore the North Sea for oil and gas. He also holds shares in Pantheon Resources, a UK company exploring for oil in Alaska, and previously had a stake in the oil prospecting firm Cluff Energy Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

The Australian firm currently lobbies in the UK on behalf of mining company Ferrexpo, which says it is “at the forefront of strategic oil and gas investments that drive both financial prosperity and sustainable energy solutions.” global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The baseline monitoring was carried out by The University of Manchester as part of a British Geological Survey-led environmental monitoring project and supported by the Department of Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Three different methods were used to estimate the methane release rate.

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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. The IPCC has warned that “keeping warming to 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Labour’s flagship climate policy during its first month in office has been the creation of Great British Energy – a state-owned company that will own and invest in renewable energy sources. Overall, 73 percent of those polled said that Great British Energy will be good for the country, including 59 percent of Reform voters.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2024

By reviewing extensive industry reports and technical data on 46 proposed blue hydrogen projects in the EU, UK and Norway listed by the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), DeSmog found that 27 involve building new hydrogen production facilities. [Details of the methodology used can be found at the end of this story].

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Abbott announced he was “pleased” to join the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which had “consistently injected a note of realism into the climate debate”. As prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015, Abbott’s centre-right Liberal Party was widely seen as hostile to climate policy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A coal mining conglomerate is to fund a new Science Museum gallery on the “energy revolution” in the latest sponsorship controversy to hit the institution. But astonishingly, the museum’s management has doubled down and signed up Adani – a coal conglomerate – to sponsor a gallery about the energy transition. Energy Revolution’.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

Latest projections show global energy investment set to rise eight per cent this year, driven by surging investment in clean energy infrastructure. The IEA's World Energy Investment 2022 report, published yesterday, predicts that global energy investment is to increase by eight per cent in 2022 to reach $2.4tr.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies.

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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. percent (£1.8

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2020

In two experiments, people listened to a short radio clip from 2015 about Richard Mode, a 66-year-old North Carolinian who enjoys hunting and fishing. When someone says they’re “worried” about climate change, according to research , that’s one of the strongest signs they’ll support policies to curb global warming.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement. degrees F) and ideally 1.5 degrees C (2.7 The latest science shows that emissions will need to drop. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Analysis by E3G and Global Energy Monitor calculates pipeline for pre-construction coal plants has plummeted 76 per cent since 2015. The collapse of the global coal pipeline and the rise of commitments to 'no new coal' are progressing hand in hand," he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. They straddle climate change, the role of biomass energy, greenhouse gas emissions from different oil feedstocks, policies towards slashing emissions in transport, buildings and infrastructure, and the interactions between climate change and human health.

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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. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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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

APRIL 18, 2024

Scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have said that without “immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors” limiting global heating to 1.5C The UK government has given £20 billion more in support to fossil fuel producers than renewables companies since 2015. is beyond reach.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

Sunak launched the election campaign by claiming that he had “prioritised energy security and your family finances over environmental dogma”. million) stake in the oil and gas exploration company Deltic Energy, which has been awarded multiple North Sea licences by the government. Spencer currently holds an 18.8 percent (£4.5

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) filed its latest accounts on 18 January, showing an income of £280,000 for the year ending 30 September 2023, a drop of £110,000 from the previous year. million since September 2015. Total annual losses increased from £17,000 to over £150,000. In total, the group has earned £2.8

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

The newest publication is an attempt to distill everything the panel has said since August 2021, when it began releasing its sixth assessment of global warming. There’s no new research in this latest report, but it injects new urgency into scientists’ and activists’ calls for rapid, systemic action from global decision-makers.

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Energy Central

APRIL 29, 2022

Signed in 2015, the UN Paris Agreement is aimed at curbing global warming. The aim of this agreement is to limit the increase in planetary temperatures to 2°C as compared to the preindustrial levels while taking steps to limit the increase to 1.5°C.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge The nations of the world have to seriously ramp up their clean energy ambitions because time is running out to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement, a sweeping new United Nations report card says. Each year, greenhouse gas pollution has continued to grow globally.

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