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

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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 30, 2024

In 2022 the Charity Commission, the UK’s independent charity regulator, launched a case into the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), set up by the (now late) Conservative peer Nigel Lawson in 2009. The commission concluded that provided these changes are carried out, it was “satisfied the concerns raised are now resolved”.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

members are supposed to be finalizing a global treaty to address plastic pollution. This opened the door to discussions around limiting plastic production, which most experts consider to be a nonnegotiable part of an effective mitigation strategy for plastic pollution. To limit global warming to 1.5

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

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

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

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them. The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed into life in 2015, may not be perfect. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them.

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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. I love how he calls greenhouse gas emissions from cars “pollution.” Document 1: 1959.

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

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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 14, 2024

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Neither the Legatum Group nor the Legatum Institute reveal details of their investments or donors.

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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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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

JULY 24, 2023

Four months later, during the COP27 climate summit, Frost joined the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s principal climate science denial group. The IPCC has said the role of human-caused emissions on climate change is “unequivocal”, and that human action can limit global warming.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s the first “Global Stocktake” of the progress nearly 200 countries have made since they adopted the Paris agreement in 2015. By pushing nations to slash their greenhouse gas emissions, the global accord strives to avoid climate change so extreme that life on Earth would struggle to adapt. The planet has gotten about 1.2

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election. million as chief strategy officer of Gulf Keystone Petroleum from 2015 to 2018 while serving as a Conservative MP. DeSmog revealed last month that the Conservative Party has received £8.4 percent (£1.8

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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 Fracking for shale gas is a controversial practice that risks causing air, water, and noise pollution. is beyond reach.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA. degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossil fuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . The amounts include high levels of funding in coal, the most polluting fossil fuel. billion to £3.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

They warn that if the trend is left to continue and food production systems are not reformed to cut harmful fertiliser use, the world will fail to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, established in 2015 to stave off the worst and most devastating impacts of global warming.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Doing so would address a glaring omission in the 2015 Paris accord, which never actually mentions coal, oil, or natural gas despite being an international agreement to stop global warming. Coal of course is the most polluting fossil fuel, one reason why it’s hard to ignore in a climate agreement.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

private equity giant with more than $500 billion in assets under management, bought a 25 percent stake in Marshall Wace in 2015 and increased its share to 39.9 (check all that apply) All International UK Sign Up KKR, a U.S. percent as of June 2023. GB News has given dozens of appearances to individuals associated with the GWPF.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2024

The government also has given £20 billion more in support to fossil fuel producers than those of renewables since 2015. In fact, ULEZ – which charges high-polluting vehicles – only applies to around 10 percent of road users, since 90 percent of London’s cars are already ULEZ compliant.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Adani Group has faced opposition in India for its coal extraction and pollution, and protests over its Carmichael coal mine in Australia. ” Adani is also expected to be among investors attending the government’s “global investment summit” at the museum today. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels”.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

And as the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted , emissions pathways that limit global warming to 2°C or below generally assume that some form of carbon dioxide removal, such as CCS, is necessary, alongside reducing emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2023

The previous months were Earth’s hottest in perhaps 125,000 years, a direct result of interactions between global warming and the cyclical warm-weather pattern called El Niño. So far, oil majors haven’t promised to end fossil fuel production, a key requirement if they want to help the world halt global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2023

Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox have each received £10,000 from companies owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s leading climate science denial groups.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Sunak, who worked at Policy Exchange before his 2015 election to parliament, also used the summer party to make a jibe about the Labour Party’s links to Just Stop Oil, one of whose funders, Dale Vince, has donated £1.4 million from fossil fuel interests, high-polluters and climate science deniers last year alone.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

We only work with organizations who support the Paris Climate Accord and its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 We only work with organizations who support the Paris Climate Accord and its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 None of these companies want government policy and carbon regulations.” “We

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

He said that it was important for the government to have “interlocking policies” on “the quality of our rivers”, “marine protected areas”, “air pollution”, and “nature restoration”. From 2015 to 2023, he was a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

The findings come as the banking industry receives increased scrutiny for financing polluting projects and builds upon previous analysis by DeSmog showing climate-conflicted board members at many of the UK’s top banks and across bank boards worldwide. Between 2016 and 2020, Australia’s “big 4” collectively provided $32.41

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