DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Equinors statement that it was capturing about 1 million tonnes of CO2 each year at Sleipner alone appears to have first been published on the companys carbon capture and storage (CCS) webpage in 2022, according to archived internet data.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

In July 2022, Hewson wrote an article for the IEA website in which she argued that legally binding targets, such as the 2050 net zero target, are “arbitrary” and “distort decision making”. These include Badenoch’s head of policy Victoria Hewson, who used to work for the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA).

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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

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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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

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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In September 2022, Private Equity Climate Risks reported that 78 percent of KKR’s energy investments were in fossil fuels, including in 28 fossil fuel companies. In August 2022, he joined the Dubai-based investment firm Legatum Group in a £60 million capital injection and buyout of GB News’s other major investor, Discovery.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2023

Leader of the House of Commons Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox have each received £10,000 from companies owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s leading climate science denial groups.

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. In 1995 he established the first German linked law firm in Poznan. His law firm focuses on business law, German and Polish geothermal law and has clients from Asia and Europe who invest in Germany or Poland. degrees Celsius of global warming. degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2023

MAG claims that the government agreed in the meeting to a further summit with the authors of a report published in October 2022, co-commissioned by MAG and the lobby group Fair Fuel UK , that criticised the government’s phase-out policy. When approached for comment, Baker said, “I’m a member, I’m glad to be”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

In 2022, BHP’s petroleum business merged with the energy company Woodside, with the new firm being 48 percent owned by BHP shareholders, creating a “global top 10 independent energy company”. Until April 2024, Farmer held shares in the fossil fuel giants Shell and BP, each worth more than £100,000.

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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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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

APRIL 21, 2023

He gave £500,000 in December 2022 – the same month that he was appointed as Tory treasurer, responsible for party fundraising. 2022 report into think tanks. Memon was hired as a special adviser to the Treasury in 2022, having served as the CPS’s Head of Economic Research from 2014 to 2015.

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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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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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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“Fossil fuels are everywhere at this COP except in the decisions being negotiated by governments,” Nikki Reisch, the director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, wrote to DeSmog from Glasgow.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Telles was joined on the stage by Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite, who served as an environment minister under Bolsonaro, and Antônio Cabrera, a former agriculture minister, known as a critic of laws protecting Indigenous territories from conversion into livestock ranches. trillion in 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

In 2022, Eni reported a profit of $14.12 At Spain’s Primavera Sound festival in 2022, Plenitude set up a “green charging station” where concertgoers could charge their phones by pedaling exercise bikes. Like other fossil fuel companies, Eni might ultimately be held accountable in court for this pattern of deception and harm.”

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The agreement follows an extensive negotiation processes, which began in June 2023, after the European Commission had initially proposed the CSDDD in February 2022. The CSDDD’s key aim is to enhance the protection of the environment and human rights globally.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

That is despite the Glasgow Climate Pact including a push for parties to come forward with more ambitious nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement in 2022. Greece climate law aims to ditch lignite coal by 2028. COP15: UN biodiversity summit meetings delayed over Omicron fears.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

“Even if all CCS facilities planned and under development worldwide become operational,” the Production Gap report explains, “only around 0.25 [gigatons] of CO2 would be captured in 2030, less than 1% of 2022 global CO2 emissions.” percent of current global energy sector emissions.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 12, 2022

COP27 is currently scheduled for November 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, where these conversations will no doubt continue. Collaboration : The Pact encourages international collaborations of many kinds to contribute to progress in achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and the Glasgow Climate Pact.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

"Greens and liberals have different preferences as to the mix of market-based instruments, subsidies and regulatory law to achieve carbon neutrality over the next few decades," Ottmar Edenhofer, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said.

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