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. million to right-wing political parties in just over two decades, including £7.2

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

The report, called the Global Land Outlook 2, comes from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and follows a landmark UN report earlier this month that called for “rapid and deep” emissions cuts to avoid the worst effects of global warming. That is, if humanity can muster up the political will.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. However, a 2023 court case found that the government’s plans only added up to 95 percent of the reductions needed to meet its net zero targets.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Now the organisation has put more flesh on the bones of that initial study with its latest analysis, but as ever it demonstrates that the biggest challenge is not so much technical, but political, according to climate scientist and Project Drawdown executive director Dr Jonathan Foley. If we consider the monetary value of co-benefits (e.g.

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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). million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. CT Group was founded by political consultant and lobbyist Lynton Crosby in 2002. Hiring CT Group appears to be the latest attempt by the Legatum Group to expand its political influence.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Lilley has been a longstanding political donor, having previously given £580,000 to the Conservative Party and its candidates between 2013 and 2023, as well as £150,000 to the Vote Leave campaign. The IPCC has stated that it is “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land”.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The world doesn’t have much wiggle room left Since they adopted the Paris agreement, the report says, countries have taken enough action to slow global warming a bit. Each year, greenhouse gas pollution has continued to grow globally. In other words, things could be much worse than they already are. Carbon emissions?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2024

Although it doesn’t get enough attention, the two major parties — the Conservatives and Labour — have chosen climate change and, in particular, fossil fuel production in the North Sea as a clear political dividing line for the electorate. million in donations from big polluters and those with direct links to fossil fuel production.

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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. Similarly, in public life: newspaper headlines fly by in a blur, political shifts glide past, and the natural world doesn't appear to move at all. Today's conference feels like an appropriate place to address that. -.

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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. degrees C and potentially past 2 degrees C of warming. With immediate action, limiting global warming to 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. I love how he calls greenhouse gas emissions from cars “pollution.” Document 1: 1959.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A poll showing public support for a referendum on the UK’s net zero goal covered on the front page of yesterday’s Telegraph was paid for by a newly-launched climate science denial group run by a leading figure in actor Laurence Fox’s political party. and “What are the good and bad impacts of any global warming?”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In 1971, Eni set up a new company in Rome to study pollution problems called Tecneco. Eni’s prediction was quite accurate: Global warming in the year 2000 was exactly 0.5 ° C and CO2 concentrations were around 370 ppm. Eni also understood the need to limit fossil fuel pollution decades ago, according to the report.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But just two of the 203 events listed make any reference to fossil fuels, which the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says are the dominant cause of global warming. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry. million tons of carbon dioxide during the year.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

A reported 200 people attended the protest outside parliament on Tuesday as the ULEZ scheme to tackle air pollution by charging high emission vehicles was extended to Greater London. We need political leadership that listens, hears concerns, and acts to address real problems… but holds firm to the end goal of clean air for all.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

During the negotiations, Johnson hailed “significant steps made to consign coal to the history books” and praised the resulting Glasgow Agreement for being the “first ever international agreement to phase down coal and a roadmap to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

A DeSmog investigation – compiled in this interactive map – reveals the scale of this network, mapping the connections between oil, gas and coal companies, wealthy political donors, right-wing think tanks, anti-climate media outlets, and senior figures in the ruling Conservative Party. percent (£1.8

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. Hansen was the first to sound the alarm on climate change in 1988 in testimony to Congress.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In a September poll , 60 per cent described the temperatures where they lived as hotter due to climate change, while nearly two-thirds claimed this summer’s wildfires made global warming a more urgent issue for them. s highest-polluting sector. These questions, asked only a season ago, already feel dated in the wake of B.C.’s

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2024

Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world’s largest polluters, according to new estimates. The report found that the industry had instead used “extraordinary political access” to push back against nature-friendly laws.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The world’s leading climate scientists warned of the “irreversible” impacts of global warming in the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), describing the window of opportunity to act as “brief and rapidly closing”. thereby limiting climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Agriculture used to play second fiddle to energy when it came to global warming, considered as a nice-to-have. But as global heating continues apace, emissions associated with food are rising fast.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The people inside this conference, the execs from oil and gas, the political figures from the governments that work with these companies, they know exactly how bad what they’re doing is,” said Benjamin Hoffman, another member of the Sunrise Movement. Sarcastically, he thanked the room of “polluters” for destroying Louisiana’s coastline. “On

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 6, 2024

It was one of the greatest strategic political blunders of any Conservative administration in the last 14 years. Speaking on GB News in August 2021, Farage said that he was “very much an environmentalist” and that he couldn’t “abide things like plastics in our seas, pollution in our rivers.”

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

To keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5 degrees, the UK and our co-hosts, Italy, need to get agreement on cutting carbon from the biggest polluters by November, or the summit will have failed. Glasgow isn't a ribbon cutting event, it requires real political muscle. That's no easy task. and ‘is it worth it?'.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.” and PhD in Atmospheric Science.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

He said that it was important for the government to have “interlocking policies” on “the quality of our rivers”, “marine protected areas”, “air pollution”, and “nature restoration”. 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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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The past year registered record-shattering global temperatures. degrees C (2 degrees F) of global warming, compared to pre-industrial averages. People around the world are already witnessing epic heat waves, wildfires and drought at 1.1 With current policies putting the world on.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2024

Furfari is an adviser to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. The GWPF has in the past expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mis-characterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”. Net zero is not a taboo, but nearly.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

As for biomass, though it enjoys an unearned reputation for being a low carbon, renewable alternative, it too releases greenhouse gases and air pollution. If industry and political leaders maintain their commitment to limiting global warming to 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2024

Despite 400 climate scientists urging stronger climate action by all political parties, misinformation and outright falsehoods have punctuated the climate conversation during this campaign. Drivers can also apply for a grant to help scrap their polluting vehicle and buy a cleaner one.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Reform UK’s Anti-Climate Platform Lowe’s views on climate science and net zero correspond with the policies of his political party. Reform UK campaigns for net zero to be scrapped, claiming that “we must not impoverish ourselves in pursuit of unaffordable, unachievable global CO2 targets.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That sends a clear political message that the industry “is less powerful and trusted than before,” Nick Caleb, a climate and energy attorney with Breach Collective, told DeSmog. 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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That’s according to a newly reviewed 1993 document labeled “proprietary” that was written by the company’s Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil, one of the top producers in a heavily polluting oil deposit known as the Alberta tar sands. We’d be headed down the backside,” environmental writer and 350.org

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