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Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossilfuels, DeSmog can reveal. Latest official records show that all donations made to Reform UK so far this year are from individuals with ties to climate science denial or fossilfuel interests.
Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all globalfossilfuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit. carbon budget, an estimate of the maximum amount of carbon dioxide emissions that can be emitted before tipping the planet into dangerous levels of global heating.
Since then, the Conservative government has made a series of U-turns on its own net zero policies, attacked Labour’s green spending plans, and doubled down on its support for new fossilfuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. This comes as DeSmog and Democracy for Sale reveal that £6.8 percent (£1.8
It is gradual, and it derives largely from the familiar and widespread practice of burning fossilfuels. And it manifests as natural phenomena like heat waves, droughts, fires, storms and floods; we need experts, assessing global data and long-term trends, to tell us if what is happening is truly unusual.
This article by Common Dreams is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. The world’s 60 biggest banks funded fossilfuels to the tune of $6.9 banks provided 30 percent of total fossilfuel finance, the largest share of any country. trillion since 2016 and $347.5
Bank bosses due to attend a green investment summit tomorrow head institutions which have provided over £700 billion of financing for the fossilfuel industry since the 2015 Paris Agreement, including £129 billion in 2020 alone. . billion in coal, oil and gas between 2016-2020. Concrete Commitments Needed’. billion in 2020.
And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of globalwarming. Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). UN Global Compact, Arlene Thompson. Jillian Lennartz (2016).
Based on the pledges that countries had made prior to the conference, those studies found that there was a less than 50 percent chance of keeping warming to below 2 degrees C, the goal set by the world’s countries in the 2016 Paris Agreement.
Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossilfuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossilfuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.
Almost 100 universities that have pledged to shed ties to the fossilfuel industry still bank with financial institutions that have collectively provided $419 billion (£345 billion) to polluting interests between 2016 and 2022. million in funding from fossilfuel companies since 2022.
Last week, in a historic first, the former CEO of a major oil company took the witness stand in a New York City courtroom and spent four hours defending his company against charges that it misled investors about the potential impact of globalwarming on its viability as a business. .
The world's biggest firms driving the development of clean energy, electric vehicles, sustainable forestry, and other crucial green solutions continue to outperform the broader global market, "leaving fossilfuel companies in the dust", according to fresh investor research released today.
World leaders are missing the opportunity to achieve deep cuts in emissions by adopting circular economy strategies that reduce demand for resources, it warns, and it identifies a roadmap that it says could help them meet the target of limiting globalwarming to 1.5°C. billion last year. degrees: ?
The founder and honorary president of the GlobalWarming Policy Foundation has announced he will be retiring from parliament. The newspaper – which regularly runs columns attacking climate action – notes Lawson’s pivotal role in the official Brexit campaign, Vote Leave, during the 2016 EU referendum. GWPF Record.
The world should not develop any new sources of fossilfuels if it is stand a chance of limiting globalwarming to 1.5C in line with international climate goals, as there are already enough supplies of gas required to meet global demand, a major new study today has concluded.
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 globalwarming. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.
The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal. The GlobalWarming 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.
The United Nations secretary-general has become increasingly outspoken about the failure of the world’s financial sector to stop investing in new fossilfuel projects and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. New funding for fossilfuels is delusional,” Guterres said on June 14.
Even in the most optimistic scenario considered in this report, the chance of limiting globalwarming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is only 14 percent, and the various scenarios leave open a large possibility that globalwarming exceeds 2 degrees Celsius or even 3 degrees Celsius,” the report noted. degrees C, or 4.5
None of the coverage notes that NZSG leader and former Brexit minister Steve Baker is a trustee of the GlobalWarming Policy Foundation (GWPF), whose founder and board member Lord Nigel Lawson recently said “globalwarming is not a problem”. Backing Fracking.
Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , a director of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the GlobalWarming 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
What’s the single word that fossilfuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and globalwarming? And if that approach feels a little familiar, maybe that’s because it’s very similar to the tactics used by another industry in the past: Big Tobacco.
Between 2016 and 2020, Australia’s “big 4” collectively provided $32.41 billion in financing to the fossilfuel industry. Between 2016 and 2020, Australia’s “big 4” collectively provided $32.41 billion in financing to the fossilfuel industry. Fossil Finance.
per cent – sends a clear sign to bank that investors are increasingly displeased with its approach to fossilfuel investment. Shareholders at JP Morgan Chase have signalled a growing desire that the world's largest funder of fossilfuels curbs lending activities that exacerbate climate change.
It has called for new oil and gas projects to be accelerated, labelled the windfall tax on energy companies a “terrible idea”, and argued for a more generous fiscal environment for the UK’s fossilfuel producers. They provide further evidence that Number 10’s fossilfuel agenda is far from accidental.
A Tory MP who suggested it is “morally wrong” to discourage poor countries from pursuing high-carbon growth on climate change grounds has a financial interest in numerous fossilfuel and mining companies. Between 2016-2020, Citi lent £178 billion to the fossilfuel industry, while Bank of America financed £148.7
A Tory MP who suggested it is “morally wrong” to discourage poor countries from pursuing high-carbon growth on climate change grounds has a financial interest in numerous fossilfuel and mining companies. Between 2016-2020, Citi lent £178 billion to the fossilfuel industry, while Bank of America financed £148.7
Reform campaigns to “scrap all of net zero” and backs new fossilfuel extraction, including via fracking and opening new coal mines. million from climate deniers, polluters, and fossilfuel interests – who represent 92 percent of its funders. Reform’s policies are in step with its donors.
HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest, and Lloyds come under fire for continuing to fund fossilfuel expansion. Furthermore, 77 per cent of customers said that they had no idea that their banks were financing fossilfuel expansion.
The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossilfuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years, DeSmog can reveal. Fossilfuels are not only poisoning our planet – they’re toxic for your brand,” he said.
The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the GlobalWarming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. These impacts are costly, with Morgan Stanley estimating that climate-related disasters cost the world $650 billion from 2016 to 2018.
The report was also shared by leading climate science denial groups, including Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the GlobalWarming Policy Foundation. The report was covered in the the Times, Daily Express, Daily Mail, the Spectator, and the influential conservative blog Guido Fawkes through both news reports and opinion pieces.
billion worth of fossilfuels from Saudi Arabia. DeSmog has today revealed that the US-based advertising giant McCann, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), is putting itself forward to continue working for this fossilfuel giant. So what else do we know about this fossilfuel behemoth?
Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to globalwarming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” based libertarian think tank founded in 1977 by fossilfuel billionaire Charles Koch that has long disputed the facts of climate change.
billion invested in fossilfuels firms, including oil and gas majors Chevron, Shell, and Equinor, as of June 2023. private equity firm KKR, also has a large fossilfuel portfolio , including 188 assets in oil, gas, and coal. DeSmog also revealed that Marshall Wace – Paul Marshall’s hedge fund – had £1.8
May, who was UK Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019, was speaking last night at an event hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), which represents more than 100 Tory MPs who back policies to cut emissions and protect nature. Theresa May’s own record on climate change has not gone uncriticised, however. .
He was also formerly an adviser to Consumer Choice Center – a US-based pressure group with links to the Koch fossilfuel empire that has come under fire for advocating against green reforms in the EU without being registered as a lobbying firm. Climate change will disproportionately affect young people.
Most countries are enabling fossilfuels. Even Norway, typically known for its pristine environment, chose fossilfuels over the environment while struggling with Covid-19. They enacted laws aligning themselves with the Paris Agreement in 2016 on an individual basis. What we can do.
As environment secretary between 2014 and 2016, Truss cut subsidies for solar farms, calling them “a blight on the landscape”, and claimed without evidence that they were harming food production. Truss has ties to other American fossilfuel-linked groups. During a trip to the U.S.
degrees Celsius of globalwarming that has occurred to date. In the broadest sense, overshoot is a future where the world does not cut carbon quickly enough to limit globalwarming to 1.5 Globalwarming coming back down is not going to bring you that species back,” she said. Warming of 1.5
Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossilfuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. In fact, the International Energy Agency has said that new oil and gas projects are not compatible with keeping warming below 1.5C – an international climate goal that has been adopted by the UK government.
Global investment needs to rapidly shift away from fossilfuels to green energy throughout the 2020s, but bets against that happening look increasingly risky. In order to cap globalwarming at 1.5C From 2011 to 2015, for example, the low carbon to fossilfuel supply investment ratio was 0.5:1.
Back in 2015 it managed to generate 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy sources for 299 days, and in 2016, it ran for 271 days on everything but fossilfuels. And their example just goes to show that clean energy works as well as the energy derived from fossilfuels.
Coal-fired power plants, vehicle-clogged highways and fossil-fuel spewing factories have contributed to the growing European air pollution dilemma. Indeed, the European Environment Agency (EEA) highlighted the issue when reporting that over 400,000 Europeans met their untimely demise in 2016 due to poor air quality.
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