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Tufton Street Descends on Reform UK Conference

DeSmogBlog

Between 2019 and 2023, the ASI accepted £40,000 from Nigel Vinson – one of the few known donors to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group – and £40,000 from Tory peer Lord Jon Moynihan. As DeSmog has revealed , Farage’s party received £2.3 to “drill baby drill” for more fossil fuels.

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Tory Donors Have Pumped Almost £7 Million into Tufton Street Since 2019

DeSmogBlog

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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Mapped: The Tory Network of Climate Denial and Fossil Fuel Funding

DeSmogBlog

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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NRG Energy’s VP of Sustainability Jeanne-Mey Sun Says Customer Demand is Driving Decarbonization

Greentown Labs

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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Immersive, dystopian exhibit shows what life could be like post-climate change

AGreenLiving

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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Tufton Street Linked Donors Have Given £630,000 to the Conservatives Since Sunak Became Prime Minister

DeSmogBlog

As revealed by DeSmog this week, a firm owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups – also donated £20,000 in March to House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox. They incubated Truss and Kwarteng during their early years as MPs.

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Trends in Food, Agriculture, and Nature-Based Solutions with Mitch Rubin

Elemental Excelerator

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.