DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The UK government’s most senior climate minister has publicly celebrated a petrol campaigner who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims “man is not responsible for global warming”. FairFuelUK was funded by the Road Haulage Association (RHA) until October 2022. Cox continues to spread such views.

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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). Based in 55 Tufton Street , Westminster, the GWPF is the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. The former Home Secretary Priti Patel cited tactics used by Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain when arguing for what became the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In 2022 a similar bill also died in Assembly committee. Shell noted in its FY 2022 filing that if divestment continued, “it could have a material adverse effect on the price of our securities and our ability to access capital markets.” Chevron made a similar risk disclosure in its FY 2022 SEC filing. “We

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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. The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

But for many, the industry’s law-breaking is a cold and hard lived reality, especially for people in climate-vulnerable communities and in the Global South. The fossil fuel industry considers itself above the law, has lied about climate change for decades, and humanity is now paying the price. I’m joining that call.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

It is curious how certain agencies, including Lynton Crosby’s, end up advising both the Tories and their friends,” Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog. global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. This raises a number of interesting political questions.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Olszynski, chair in energy, resources and sustainability at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law, doesn’t buy the premier’s take. billion) in 2022 — into decarbonization. And so how are we supposed to have some meaningful conversations to work together on a shared purpose? I think he’s destroyed the trust.” billion ($47.95

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Diverse compounds are emitted by everything from motor vehicles to power plants, and include both greenhouse gases and short-lived climate pollutants – which are known to fuel global warming – as well as a host of volatile organic compounds that can lead to short- and long-term health problems in humans. trillion, equivalent to 6.1

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2024

Companies and their trade groups had opposed nature-friendly laws in multiple countries, the report noted, including attempts to curb methane, a potent greenhouse gas. based YouTube influencer Sean Evans, who teamed up in 2022 as part of a major marketing campaign. President Barack Obama. climate policy.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Under a newly proposed law, ads like these could be banned in the state of Pennsylvania. Source: Meta ad library ‘Rapid and dramatic changes ‘ Canada’s new law, which threatens multi-million-dollar penalties for promoting false environmental claims, has had a sweeping effect since its passage.

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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. Tory peer Lord Michael Farmer has also donated £8.8

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

She is the latest high profile figure to ally with NZW’s parent organisation, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , which is the UK’s principal climate science denial group and part of the Tufton Street network of free market think tanks. Rapidly cutting carbon emissions is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. In September 2022 Net Zero Watch – the GWPF’s campaigning arm – published two reports rejecting climate science on the greenhouse effect.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Ridley wrote last year that global heating was “mostly beneficial”. Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate denial group, which is based on Westminster’s Tufton Street. Eleven opinion writers were board members or academic advisors at the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A DeSmog investigation last year found that one in three GB News hosts had broadcast climate science denial in 2022, while nearly half had attacked the UK’s net zero emissions targets. 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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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

On November 4, 2022, the White House announced a new initiative to support research and development projects on 37 “game-changing” technologies to advance the Biden Administration’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

As the report dictates, and is now protected by law, it is imperative for the UK to reduce its emissions, with numerous initiatives relying on the goal of installing 40GW of offshore wind by 2030, eventually building up to 100GW by 2050. So, what can be done in 2022 to ensure we pave the way to make offshore wind goals a reality?

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But hidden on page 25 of the “Summary for Policymakers” was an even grimmer note: That even in the IPCC’s most optimistic models, the chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 As of 2020, the planet had already warmed by 1.2 It doesn’t contradict the laws of chemistry and physics to get to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The CCC stressed that "this is a crucial 12 months" within a monumentally important decade for the climate if the world is to stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, adding that "only concrete steps by 2030" would close the growing gap between delivery and ambition. With the chances of limiting average temperature rise to 1.5C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As many as 61 new projects were added to the pipeline in 2022, bringing the total carbon capture capacity of CCS projects currently under development worldwide to 244 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) - an increase of 44 per cent on last year, the think tank calculated. "We

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This year’s summit, known as COP16, follows on from the last biodiversity conference held in Montréal in 2022, when negotiators struck an historic deal – the equivalent of the Paris Agreement on climate change – to “halt and reverse” nature loss. Yet they have found ways to tap into the negotiations.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Protesters in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on January 4, 2022, oppose the government’s plans for offshore drilling. January 4, 2022. The activities proposed by Equinor Argentina will degrade an ecosystem that is already threatened by overfishing, global warming and pollution.”. Credit: Radio La Revuelta.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A Public Campaign of Deception First, as the complaint notes, “Defendants have known about the potential warming effects of GHG emissions since as early as the 1950s.” Nuclear physicist Edward Teller warned the oil industry at an API event in 1959 that global warming might melt the polar ice caps and submerge coastal cities.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Andre Walker is a regular presenter at TalkTV – the channel launched by News UK in April 2022 – hosting several current affairs shows a week, including prime time fixtures “That Was the Woke that Was” and “Saturday Night Talkaway”. Both GB News and TalkTV are facing probes by the broadcasting regulator Ofcom due to impartiality complaints.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The world’s foremost climate science body, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has said that “immediate and deep emissions reductions” are needed “across all sectors” to limit global warming to 1.5C – the global target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Aviation contributes approximately 2.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The lawsuit, filed by environmental law charity ClientEarth, a minor shareholder in Shell, alleges the firm's 11 directors have breached their legal duties by failing to implement an energy transition strategy that aligns with the goals of the Paris Agreement. of global warming. above pre-industrial levels.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

The plans, which are now subject to a six-week consultation launched today, would see pension schemes holding £5bn or more in assets - amounting to roughly 100 schemes - have to assess and publicly report on climate risk by 2022 or face penalties from the Pensions Regulator.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The case is represented by lawyers Luca Saltalamacchia, an expert in human and environmental rights protection; Raffaele Cesari, an expert in civil environmental law; and Michele Carducci, an expert in climate law from the University of Salento in Puglia.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

The movie is an allegory for climate change , showing how those with the power to do something about global warming willfully avoid taking action and how those with vested interests can mislead the public. Army (@USArmy) January 8, 2022. link] pic.twitter.com/ZHageFyGwl — U.S.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

The launch, they said, would not take place until 2022 — if at all. “I Although reflecting the sun to slow global warming has been discussed for over half a century , precious few experiments have actually taken place. It’s yet another holdup for solar geoengineering research.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

As a result, scientists say, the aerosol mask is slipping, causing a boost to global warming in many regions. “We We are currently experiencing greenhouse-gas driven global warming enhanced by aerosol removal,” says Ben Booth, a climate modeler at the U.K. million tons in 2022. Met Office.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan) for public review and comment. CARB addresses California’s increasingly severe climate impacts. By Joshua T. Bledsoe and Kevin Homrighausen.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The government proposed amending the Occupational Pension Schemes Regulations 2021 to require relevant trustees to calculate and report how their investment portfolios align with the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5C.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. ” It also noted that “limiting global warming to below 1.5°C

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update for public review and comment. The Final Scoping Plan Update is currently expected to be published by December 2022, and is expected to be followed by a rulemaking process to amend the Cap-and-Trade Program in 2023.

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