DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Vinson has also given £49,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. Vinson – the IEA’s life vice president and former Conservative member of the House of Lords – has given the IEA a further £596,000 over the last decade.

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Policy Fossil fuels Climate change Government 137

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. Britain is now their laboratory,” he added.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Government Policy 145

Greentown Labs

JUNE 24, 2021

It provides 100 percent renewable power to the City of Houston, and in 2015 it was the first power company in North America to receive certification from the Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi) that its climate goals aligned with the two-degrees Celsius global warming limit. Watch the full conversation below!

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Demand Sustainability North America Earth Day 64

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 16, 2020

As a wake up call to the possible effects of global warming, London-based multidisciplinary design studio Superflux has created “Mitigation of Shock, Singapore,” an immersive exhibition that explores the possible consequences of sea level rise for city dwellers in coastal areas.

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Climate change Sea level rise Incubators Incubators 28

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

I was working at Chobani at the time, managing their incubator programs for food/ag entrepreneurs. That’s extremely inefficient, and land use changes to grow soy and other feed crops contribute significantly to global warming (along with direct livestock emissions). One third of crop land in the U.S.

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Agriculture Soil Biodiversity Climate change 52

Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

At the surface level, these companies have little in common, but they are all representative of a wave of innovation known as climate tech - technologies that are explicitly focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions or addressing the impacts of global warming.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Startups 56

AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. Inhabitat: What facilities will be available to incubator participants?

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