Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

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 global warming to 1.5°C. billion last year. of materials cycled.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

None of the coverage notes that NZSG leader and former Brexit minister Steve Baker is a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), whose founder and board member Lord Nigel Lawson recently said “global warming is not a problem”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Almost 100 universities that have pledged to shed ties to the fossil fuel industry still bank with financial institutions that have collectively provided $419 billion (£345 billion) to polluting interests between 2016 and 2022. The latter emits up to three times more global warming pollution than producing the same quantity of crude oil.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The average American spends $2,392 per year on food while the average Kenyan spends $543 per year on food (World Economic Forum, 2016). Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. Au contraire, it is the reverse. In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

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. In her speech, May called on Conservatives to unite ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Speaking at Policy Exchange’s summer party on Wednesday (28 June), the prime minister boasted that the think tank’s work “helped us draft” the government’s crackdown on protests, according to Politico. Policy Exchange and Climate Change Policy Exchange was co-founded in 2002 by Michael Gove, who has been a mainstay in the cabinet since 2010.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The detrimental effect of global warming on worker productivity is already having a tangible impact on global labour markets and economic growth, according to a major new report from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute. hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of warming.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

Therefore, the ability to quantify and project data center energy use is a key energy and climate policy priority. Official statistics are not currently compiled on data center energy use at national or global levels. Global warming: Data centres to consume three times as much energy in next decade, experts warn.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2024

Reform’s policies are in step with its donors. McMurdock does not appear to have spoken publicly about climate policy. This is in keeping with Reform’s opposition to government-led green policies. In November, Tice posted a video on X attacking climate policy, with the caption: “CO2 isn’t a poison.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The report was also shared by leading climate science denial groups, including Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. This comes as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last week announced several delays to the implementation of his government’s net zero policies.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

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 fossil fuel projects, approving more than 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. Agnew has donated £18,000 to the Conservative Party and its politicians since 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” Michael Shermer speaking at the 2016 FreedomFest in Las Vegas, Nevada. Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Marcus Fysh, a member of the “Net Zero Scrutiny Group” of MPs recently launched to push back against the government’s climate policies, told talkRADIO earlier this month the developing world should not be forced to follow greener economic pathways, speaking of the abject poverty he had witnessed in India.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Marcus Fysh, a member of the “Net Zero Scrutiny Group” of MPs recently launched to push back against the government’s climate policies, told talkRADIO earlier this month the developing world should not be forced to follow greener economic pathways, speaking of the abject poverty he had witnessed in India.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

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 fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Policy Exchange received $30,000 from the oil and gas supermajor ExxonMobil in 2017.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

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’s position on climate policy has deep roots in the libertarian movement. But it will absolutely fuel the climate crisis,” she said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Professor Ray Bates, an Emeritus Professor at University College Dublin , has been appointed to the academic advisory council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Climate ‘Contrarian’. An Academy spokesperson said they were unable to comment on any external association of its 600 members.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The influential Conservative-linked Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has been pushing for further North Sea oil and gas drilling while several of its board members hold financial interests in the industry, a DeSmog investigation has found. They provide further evidence that Number 10’s fossil fuel agenda is far from accidental.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

All of the remaining contenders were elected in 2019 on the Conservatives’ manifesto pledge to “lead the global fight against climate change by delivering on our world-leading target of Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050”. . Others have failed to mention climate at all. Foreign Secretary.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

per cent of shareholders voted in favour of a resolution that asked the bank to report whether and how it would align its lending with the Paris Agreement goal of maintaining global warming well below 2C. At the bank's annual meeting yesterday, 49.6

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Rishi Sunak has put a long-time climate contrarian in charge of the government’s Wales policy, upgrading him from the junior ministerial role he was given three years ago by Boris Johnson. David Davies has made some disturbing and frankly plain wrong statements about the climate crisis in recent years. Alarmist’ Climate Scientists.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

global warming scenario. of global warming by the end of the century, a rise in average temperatures that would shoot far over the 'well-below' 2C upper limit goal of the Paris Agreement and which scientists believe would incur catastrophic climate impacts on the planet.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Between 2016 and 2020, Australia’s “big 4” collectively provided $32.41 And, despite many banks releasing bold pledges on climate, the global banking sector has poured over $3.8 A Westpac spokesperson declined to comment, and instead pointed DeSmog to the banks’ sustainability and climate change policies on its website.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2021

What’s the single word that fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil’s flagship environmental reports to investors and the public tie most closely to climate change and global warming? The biggest open questions are about policy and products, not about what the science shows. Modern’ Propaganda.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Analysis of data from campaign group BankTrack finds that eight of the banks represented at the summit have continued to finance highly polluting coal, oil and gas through commercial and investment banking in the five years since the Paris Agreement was reached to pursue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5C. Proud to Take Part’.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Global greenhouse gas emissions are not projected to peak by 2030, it adds, let alone by 2020. If humanity is to deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep warming below 2C, policies to lower emissions must triple; to keep warming below 1.5C, they must increase five-fold, it concludes. ppm and 410.04 billion.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The transition of oil and gas to deep geothermal is one that requires radical transformation of paradigms, business models, and policies. Henning is member of LAWASIA since 2006 and the Chairman of the Asian-European Subcommittee since 2016. degrees Celsius of global warming. years left to limit global warming to 1.5

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2021

As much as 17 billion tonnes of CO2 must be removed from the air by 2050 if global warming is to be kept below 2C. Between 2017 and 2019, global carbon markets grew almost five times in value to €194bn. Globally, between 2016 and 2018, voluntary credit transactions increased by 52.6 per cent and 48.5

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Political Lobbying Saudi interests have spent close to $140 million since 2016 on lobbyists and agents to influence American policy and public opinion, one of the highest figures of any country, according to disclosures to the Department of Justice tallied by the Center for Responsive Politics.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

In March 2016, OES Oilfield’s executive chairman Richard Upshall wrote that: “Having recently met with James Wharton MP, the Minister for the Northern Powerhouse and some other members of Parliament, including Boris Johnson, who have declared themselves as part of the ‘out’ camp, I can see the opportunities ‘Brexit’ can bring.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The plaintiffs’ goal is to ask the Civil Court of Rome to declare that Italy is responsible for failing to tackle the climate emergency, and that its efforts to date are insufficient to meet the long-term temperature goal set by the Paris Agreement, which Italy ratified in 2016.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The 520MW Kilroot coal-fired power station in County Antrim is not covered by the phase out, as energy policy is devolved in Northern Ireland. This phenomenon of global warming is taking its toll on the most vulnerable populations around the planet," Johnson said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

The joint-largest donation to the Conservatives during this period was made by Graham Edwards, a board member at the influential Centre for Policy Studies (CPS). C-warmed world, concluding that “real world activities do not yet demonstrate any meaningful shifts in business models to align with the Paris Agreement.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

“It’s mind-blowing that JBS can continue to make climate claims to investors, even as the company massively increases its emissions,” said Shefali Sharma, Europe director for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a nonprofit advocacy organisation, which calculated the estimates. MtCO2e in 2019. . MtCO2e in 2019. .

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