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). The think tank received funding from the oil giant BP every year from 1967 to at least 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy Foundation , as well as Conservative MP Lee Anderson and Reform party president Nigel Farage. Rees-Mogg also has a long record of opposing climate policies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Energy giant builds on £7.5bn low carbon energy investment plan with new science-based emissions targets. The company announced this morning that it has joined the UN's Race to Zero campaign and is to set a new science based emissions target that will be in line with the ambition to limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5C.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2021

By investing in forestry assets used to produce carbon offset credits, investors can benefit from growing demand for both compliance and voluntary credits, explains Gresham House's Olly Hughes. 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.

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Grist

APRIL 4, 2022

Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. This is a significant decrease from 2018, when the panel predicted a 55 percent chance of staying below that threshold. “We

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

Many companies face the prospect of gas generation assets being stranded unless carbon capture and storage technology becomes widespread soon, according to research by Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and published in Nature Energy on Monday. What comes next for utilities in transition.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

N20 is a potent greenhouse gas, with a global warming potential nearly 300 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2) – and it typically stays in the atmosphere for more than 100 years before disintegrating. The coffee giant said the N2O used in its whipped cream accounted for half its global scope 1 emissions that year.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Carbon intensive companies in the U.S. The letter, sent to 47 company chairs and chief executives, calls on emissions-intensive firms to align all direct corporate lobbying activity and indirect lobbying activity managed by trade associations with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5 Cecilia Keating.

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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 Tories have also received £620,000 since 2001 from Lord Jon Moynihan, another GWPF donor.

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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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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

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. These estimates have received significant attention (Jones 2018), reinforcing the common belief that rapidly growing demand for data equals rapidly growing data center energy use.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date. It will gain increasing importance as the herculean difficulty of reducing emissions to net zero and removing vast stores of carbon from the atmosphere become clearer.”. A carbon removal facility in Iceland that came online in 2021. Climeworks.

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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. We could be imitating the Norwegians and actually making money from carbon capture.”

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the past ten years, vocabulary moved from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’ to ‘climate crisis.’. The report highlights how attitudes to the environment have shifted, how discourse was becoming more urgent and how Covid-19 has affected the global online climate conversation. On March 1, BayWa r.e.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The film suggests that we shouldn’t be worried about greenhouse gas emissions, because plants need carbon dioxide. Credit: Climate The Movie / YouTube In 2018, Greenpeace’s investigative journalism unit Unearthed revealed that the IEA had received funding from oil major BP every year since 1967.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Analysis of the carbon performance of the 72 largest listed industrial companies, which include cement, steel, paper, and aluminium firms, reveals just 19 per cent are currently have strategies that are aligned with a 2C pathway. pledges having doubled since 2018. Most of this improvement came from China and Russia, the report noted.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Another $70 million will go toward hydrogen refueling infrastructure, with $25 million more for “zero- and near-zero carbon fuel production and supply” to meet the need for alternatives to battery-powered vehicles in the decades to come. Jerry Brown in 2018. This week's announcement follows on Gov. and the Netherlands.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The data represent a tripling of global net zero ambition in just eight months since the green NGO launched the tracker, which highlights Germany ($3.7tn GDP), California ($2.8tn GDP), the UK ($2.6tr GDP), and Tokyo ($1.9tr GDP) as among the largest economies around the world which have net zero targets in place.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Barclays was the largest European financier of fossil fuels between the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2016, which set a goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C, 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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The latest register of MPs’ interests shows that James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat each received £10,000 in August from Lord Michael Hintze , a Tory peer who is one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Tugendhat also received £3,000 from Hintze in December.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The 2025 phase out date was originally announced in 2015 and was followed by a wave of coal planrt closures as operators have struggled to turn a profit in the face of the government's carbon floor price. This phenomenon of global warming is taking its toll on the most vulnerable populations around the planet," Johnson said.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Supermarkets all over Australia and New Zealand are benefiting from advanced carbon dioxide monitors, says measurement expert Vaisala, as new natural refrigeration systems are installed to assist in the fight against climate change. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is commonly regarded as the ideal natural refrigerant. Monitoring carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Billionaire Australian hedge fund manager Michael Hintze, one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), is set to receive a peerage, according to a Sunday Times report over the weekend. Lewer received a £500 ticket to the Conservative Party’s Black and White Ball from Hintze in October 2019.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2021

The numbers don’t matter as much as what they are supposed to convey — that, with our nuclear weapons and carbon dioxide emissions and global pandemics and our increasingly dumb internet full of misinformation , the world is perilously close to catastrophe. over the past several decades. The Doomsday Clock has a similar problem.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Cutting methane emissions is the most immediate opportunity we have to slow the global warming rate and prevent irreversible damage to the planet. Methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere. while reducing emissions per gallon of milk.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 4, 2024

Methane pollution is responsible for around 30 percent of global warming that’s raising sea levels and causing more extreme weather disasters. Between 2012 and 2018, it discovered that US methane emissions were actually 60 percent higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimates.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

All rights reserved 2018). A new white paper published by the Mine Energy Taskforce and Local Energy Hub network has called for greater support for mine energy as a key low carbon heat source in the UK that can contribute to government’s ambition to reach net zero by 2050. Over time, water is warmed to around 12-20°C.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 5, 2021

The report has an article and quotes from FairFuelUK founder Howard Cox , the APPG’s public enquiry point, and quotes APPG vice-chair Steve Baker MP and Graham Stringer MP , both trustees of the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), and Lord Peter Lilley , a former GWPF trustee.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2020

global warming goal, having already been ceritifed carbon neutral since 2018. To meet the new goals the company plans to expand its "closer-to-home" travel holiday options to 100 by next year, in a bid to encourage customers to forgo long-haul flights in favour of high speed rail and other low carbon forms of transport.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

She said: “The pessimists were also wrong about the costs of low-carbon energy. On the cost of energy transition, May said: “It is essential that low-carbon and green infrastructure is not simply seen as an upfront cost, but instead an investment that will deliver returns.”.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Zero Carbon Electricity Goal. In May 2019, MGE announced its goal of net-zero carbon electricity by 2050. MGE’s net-zero goal is consistent with the latest climate science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) October 2018 Special Report on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A 2018 investigation by Greenpeace Unearthed revealed that the IEA had received funding from oil giant BP every year since 1967. Let Them Eat Carbon’. BP did not respond to multiple requests for comment on whether the company still donates to the group. Additional research by Christopher Deane.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But just two of the 203 events listed make any reference to fossil fuels, which the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says are the dominant cause of global warming. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

We’re seeing this calculation reflected in many ways, from massive asset manager BlackRock’s decision to move away from investments in coal and other global-warming-causing industries, to the maintenance and planning failures that led to the power-line-sparked wildfires that forced Pacific Gas & Electric into bankruptcy last year.

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