Grist

APRIL 14, 2022

The new study also adds to the growing consensus that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C — the target that became a global rallying cry following the advocacy of vulnerable island nations during the 2015 U.N. The difference between 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Global warming may be interacting with regional rainfall and deforestation to accelerate forest loss in the Amazon, pushing it towards partial or total collapse. The research findings are important because of the vital role the Amazon plays in the global climate system.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

But many are stopping short of a commitment to no longer use the fossil fuels causing global warming — particularly those that stand to lose business from such a pact. For context, the Paris climate accord adopted by nearly 200 nations in 2015 commits them to limiting global warming to around 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage , who is a vocal critic of green policies and climate science, is standing in a constituency threatened by rising sea levels and flooding due to global warming. The party’s manifesto claims that “scientists disagree as to how much” humans have had an impact on global warming.

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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

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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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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AGreenLiving

APRIL 14, 2021

The study shows that many species known to reside in the equator’s warm waters are migrating to cooler waters. Scientists behind the study have linked this situation to global warming, saying that water at the equator has become too warm for some species. In turn, this can lead to the death of weaker species.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. Ever since the Paris Climate Summit in 2015, there has been much focus on tipping points. The impact is playing out in real time as we watch villages flood and forests burn. Focus on tipping points distracting from seriousness of underlying linear trends.

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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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Emma Howard Boyd's speech to the Committee on Climate Change's Adapting to 3C+ of global warming conference. Here in England, the Environment Agency has been criticised for saying we are helping the country prepare for 4 degrees of global warming. Today's conference feels like an appropriate place to address that. -.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

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.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Cold temperatures and snowfalls confuse some people and cause them to question the veracity of global warming. However, climate change is a function of global average temperatures over protracted periods of time. A good way to illustrate this point is by pointing to the global average temperatures for October.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The East Sussex city seemingly committed itself to the agenda set out by the UN’s Paris Agreement in 2015, and set a course for carbon neutrality by 2030 – it began reducing its carbon emissions through a series of initiatives targeting business and domestic outputs. Links: [link].

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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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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. Some small progress, but not enough.

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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, The firm will be the only UK business exhibiting at the Expo City Farm area of EXPO City in Dubai between 30 November and 12 December.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The research projects that four of these tipping points will move from possible to likely as global temperatures reach 1.5 degrees C of warming, the goal set by nations in the Paris Agreement in 2015. Several other critical tipping points will become likely if global temperatures surpass the 1.5 degree threshold.

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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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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 1, 2024

. | Photo by George Rose / Getty Images 2023 can now boast a terrifying record: planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions from global energy use hit a record. It’s been almost a decade since the adoption of the 2015 Paris climate agreement to stop global warming.

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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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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In terms of greenhouse warming potential, this is equivalent to 143 tonnes CO2 using the default 100-year time horizon conversion factor (GWP100), the annual electricity demand of 166 UK homes, or 142 London-New York flights.

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

It ties investor coupons to progress against Tesco's key performance indicators, including its goal to reduce its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 60 per cent by 2025 against a 2015 baseline. global warming trajectory.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 6, 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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Grist

JUNE 25, 2021

The draft report says that the Earth has already warmed 1.1 The 2015 Paris Agreement set a warming target of 1.5 We could stop global warming in a generation if we wanted to, which would mean limiting future warming to not much more than has happened already this century. degrees C (2.7 We also know how.”

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2024

In addition, Tugendhat received £3,000 in December from Lord Michael Hintze , a Tory peer and donor who is one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group.

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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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Grist

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels has been the gold standard for climate action since at least the 2015 Paris Agreement. degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees C, according to many current estimates, compared to the 1.7

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. Ever since the Paris Climate Summit in 2015, there has been much focus on tipping points. The impact is playing out in real time as we watch villages flood and forests burn. Focus on tipping points distracting from seriousness of underlying linear trends.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The game sees players take on the role of policymaker to try and decide how to keep global warming within the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5C Dubbed Mission 1.5, the internet and mobile phone-based game was developed alongside experts in game development, climate science, and public polling. this century, it said.

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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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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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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Representatives from each government meet annually to try to work together on climate change, striving to achieve goals set under the 2015 Paris agreement of preventing global warming from reaching a point that would make it much harder for countries to adapt.

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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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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Although the high temperatures experienced in the last five years could be temporary, there is a cause for alarm if global warming continues at the current rate. According to the UN, the world has about a 25% chance of experiencing a year of temperatures hot enough to push global temperatures past the 1.5°C limit before 2030.

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