GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

In a bombshell 2018 report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, nuclear played a role in all scenarios that kept global warming below 1.5 Department of Commerce estimates that the absence of a nuclear reactor industry will cost up to $740 billion over the next decade. degrees Celsius.

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

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

But global warming is increasing sea surface temperatures, which can create a bleaching effect that threatens the survival of tropical coral reef ecosystems, adding to the global biodiversity crisis. 2018 : Ørsted began developing the ReCoral project.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

The Electric Vehicle (EV) Energy Taskforce was established in 2018 to make proposals to Government and industry to bring together the auto and energy sectors to ensure that the GB energy system is able to accelerate the mass take-up of electric vehicles while also delivering benefits to the electricity system.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2021

Conservative MP Steve Baker has joined the UK’s principal climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). You can read more about the Global Warming Policy Foundation in its profile in DeSmog’s Disinformation Database. He was a Brexit minister from 2017 to 2018. Read profile.

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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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Sunrun

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

3 To understand just how big global warming plays a part in our lives… there were about 5 outages per year in the 1950s. Utilities Shut Off Power Grids in 2018 And now, a disturbing trend is emerging in 2018. We lead all developed nations in power outages and blackouts.4

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

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

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

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. trajectory.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

The research used machine learning to look for trends in the portfolios of companies between 2000-2018. While many gas additions are touted as a bridge fuel toward more renewables, Alova said the size of the global gas fleet far exceeds what is needed to balance renewable-based grids. Data was provided by S&P.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Since the beginning of 2018, Bosch has won electromobility-related orders worth roughly €13 billion, including production projects for electric powertrains for passenger cars and light trucks. If we don’t offer them, we won’t help stop global warming.”. We will only manage that with affordable solutions. Source: Bosch.

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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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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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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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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Citing California’s extreme wildfire season as an example, Chris Beaufait, CEO of Sharper Shape, says that as global warming continues to threaten society, better decisions need to made. Have you read?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. In 2018, it received $77,000 from the Charles Koch Foundation, which was founded by the CEO of the US-based Koch Industries fossil fuel dynasty. Kruger worked as a senior adviser to the Legatum Institute from 2017 to 2018.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JUNE 11, 2024

Costal sites with oxygen concentrations that are too low to support marine life have increased from 10 in 1960 to more than 900 in 2018. This loss of oxygen is due to human activity, most notably water pollution and global warming.  

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 16, 2024

This kind of “new denial” made up 70 percent of climate-denying content on YouTube in 2023, according to the report, compared to 35 percent in 2018. It largely centers around deceptive messages that “climate solutions won’t work,” that the science backing those solutions is unreliable, or that global warming isn’t actually harmful.

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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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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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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date. In the broadest sense, overshoot is a future where the world does not cut carbon quickly enough to limit global warming to 1.5 Global warming coming back down is not going to bring you that species back,” she said. Warming of 1.5

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Related: Global warming will melt over 1/3 of the Himalayan ice cap by 2100 Located in northern Sweden and about 95 miles inside the Arctic Circle, Kebnekaise has two peaks, each of which has been measured regularly since 1880. Mountain in Sweden loses highest peak title as global warming shrinks it.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Some 29 per cent of firms have said they will align with the Paris Agreement targets by 2030, up from 24 per cent in mid-2018, the TPI highlighted. pledges having doubled since 2018. Today's TPI data shows it can be done - with 14 companies now aligned with a path to keep global warming below 2C.

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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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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

APRIL 5, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This phenomenon of global warming is taking its toll on the most vulnerable populations around the planet," Johnson said. per cent in UK greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 compared to the year before, due in large part to the rapid decline of coal-powered electricity generation. Similarly, there was a 3.7

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Even within a relatively pristine tropical rainforest in Puerto Rico, researchers in 2018 found that between 1976 and 2012, the biomass of its insect species had fallen between 10- and 60-fold.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 11, 2024

A recent study of more than 12,000 climate-related YouTube videos posted since 2018 found that old-fashioned climate denial — think “global warming is fake” — has been replaced by another breed of dissent. EVs aren’t the sole solution to global warming, but they are a necessary one in need of balanced news coverage.

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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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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In 2017, hurricanes, severe storms, and flooding resulted in deaths, disrupted lives, and over $280 billion in damages (NOAA NCEI 2018). has occurred primarily through voluntary post-disaster buyouts of flood-prone properties (Siders 2018). Lincke D, Hinkel J (2018) Economically robust protection against 21st century sea-level rise.

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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).

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2021

In 2018, after the release of a landmark United Nations report on the overheating planet, Greta Thunberg began saying that humanity only had “ 12 years ” to halt the destruction of global warming. Climate activists have their own set of deadlines and apocalyptic predictions.

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