Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report , released on Monday, contained some of the group’s strongest language yet affirming the link between human activity and global warming. Take, for example, the 2008 case of Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp.,

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

TerraPower, founded by Gates in 2008, is developing two separate SMR technologies. In a bombshell 2018 report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, nuclear played a role in all scenarios that kept global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

None of the coverage notes that NZSG leader and former Brexit minister Steve Baker is a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), whose founder and board member Lord Nigel Lawson recently said “global warming is not a problem”.

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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

MAY 14, 2024

global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that he wants to “max out” the UK’s oil and gas reserves, despite the International Energy Agency stating that new oil and gas fields are “incompatible” with the legally binding 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Tory Climate Science Denial Jenkyns, MP for Morley and Outwood, two weeks ago joined the board of NZW, an arm of the UK’s foremost climate denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Last August, Cox said : “I am now even more convinced man is not responsible for global warming.”

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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. This appointment adds to the influence of the GWPF in the press and potentially the amount of sway that it holds over the Conservative Party.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Redwood , a former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, has described government measures to tackle global warming as “radical” and defended climate sceptics as misunderstood. However, many have expressed deep misgivings about policies to achieve the target and may still belong to the loose grouping. Turning Back the Clock’.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Provenance: Inside Climate News featured this document in a 2015 story titled, “ Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago.” Provenance: Inside Climate News featured this document in a 2015 story titled, “ Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago.”

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

global warming goal is 'not fully safe', scientists warn. Scientists have today raised the alarm that the world is currently at greater risk of triggering key climatic 'tipping points' than previously thought, which could lead to irreversible and accelerating climate breakdown that would devastate economies and communities globally.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017 fossil fuel industry trade associations spent almost $1.4tr on public relations, advertising, and communications contractors, according to Clean Creatives. "As long as they continue to engage in polluter relations, these firms will be one of our greatest barriers to climate progress.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

UnHerd has published multiple articles and videos critical of climate action, including an interview in July with Bjorn Lomborg about “ how global warming will save lives ”. They agree that rapidly cutting carbon emissions is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Bill would require the inclusion of emissions from the UK's share of international aviation and shipping in the country's existing 2050 net zero greenhouse gas target, as well as emissions linked to UK supply chains and consumption, none of which currently fall under the 2008 Climate Change Act.

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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

JULY 10, 2022

Neil Record , a currency trader and chair of the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) , donated £5,000 to Baker in February for a “media and strategic campaign consultant”, understood to be Barker, to work on the Conservative Way Forward relaunch, according to parliament’s register of interests.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 12, 2020

Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest has continued to be a thorn in the side of efforts to curb global warming. The new figures that were reported on Tuesday, June 8, 2020 now present the highest level of deforestation since 2008.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

During the event, Baker failed to mention he had recently become a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a group criticised for its “laughable record of inaccurate and misleading claims”. His remarks come a month ahead of the UK government hosting the UN COP26 climate summit. They are implausible.”.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Charlie Baker, Massachusetts' Republican governor, recently committed the state to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a legally binding limit backed by the state's 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act. Progress on emissions from heating lags power sector.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

global warming climate scenario and to meet several other climate-focused objectives, the company said, providing investors and other market participants with a means to align their investments with the Paris Agreement and manage climate-related risks and opportunities.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2023

The channel also frequently platforms activists from climate science denial groups such as the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Rapidly cutting carbon emissions is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C Another host, Philip Davies , was one of five MPs to vote against the Climate Change Act in 2008.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

The five previous biggest falls in emissions occurred during World War Two, the global recession in 1991-92, the early 1980s energy crisis, the Spanish flu pandemic shortly after the First World War, and the 2008 financial crash, according to the analysis. global warming target set out in the Paris Agreement within reach.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

It took another 7 years before our changing climate was defined as global warming – the phrase did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal until 1975. And it was another 20 years before NASA famed scientist, James Hansen, testified before Congress that “ global warming has begun. ”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The report was also shared by leading climate science denial groups, including Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The report was covered in the the Times, Daily Express, Daily Mail, the Spectator, and the influential conservative blog Guido Fawkes through both news reports and opinion pieces.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2020

The move builds on the firm's £400m investment in directly purchasing renewable energy for its business in the UK since 2008. this century. For example, mobile network operators adopting the SBT would be required to reduce emissions by at least 45 per cent by 2030.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

It has been highlighted that any increase in the present-level global warming (1°C > pre-industrial periods) will likely be trailed by adverse consequences to food and water ecosystems, human security and peace, and economic well-being. 4, 2008, pp. 4, 2008, pp. 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. Davidson, Marc D.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Mass Save’s programming is guided by three-year energy efficiency plans, a system put in place by the state’s 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act. However, advocates have long said these programs fall short when it comes to serving members of environmental justice communities.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

These are welcome pledges, and they have the potential to become turning points in the race to avoid catastrophic global warming," she wrote in a blog post published yesterday. But they are still just that: pledges.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

It took another 7 years before our changing climate was defined as global warming – the phrase did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal until 1975. And it was another 20 years before NASA famed scientist, James Hansen, testified before Congress that “ global warming has begun. ”.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When you look back on 2008—when U.S. While the summit reaffirmed the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, C, a stark assessment revealed that current emission reduction pledges put the world on course for warming of 2.9°C. production was at a 62-year low, and exports were zero—it is a remarkable turnaround.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the UK’s main climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), welcomed the reports, saying it hopes the changes were a “significant first move” towards a complete dismantling of the net zero target.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4 trillion on public relations, advertising and communications, according to Clean Creatives. Since the 1990s, the world's top five public oil companies alone — Exxon, BP, Chevron, Shell and ConocoPhillips — have spent over $3.6

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 2016, Theresa May received a £15,000 donation from Ian Taylor, chair and former global chief executive of Vitol Group, the Dutch oil and shipping company. In 2018, May nominated two of the only five Conservative MPs who voted against the UK’s 2008 Climate Change Act for peerages – Peter Lilley and Andrew Tyrie.

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Cleantech East

JUNE 25, 2019

The founding of new community organisations from 2008-2018. One can see the perversity of this situation in terms of the leading position in the EU , the UK holds in subsidising fossil fuels despite its decarbonisation rhetoric and signing of the Paris climate change agreement to limit global warming to 1.5ºC!

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

GB News host and Conservative MP Philip Davies was one of five MPs to vote against the Climate Change Act in 2008. He is joined on ARC’s advisory board by former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , a trustee at the Global Warming Policy Foundation , a leading climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

During the leadership contest, Truss defended her tax plans by citing economist Patrick Minford, an IEA trustee who has institutional connections to the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Sinclair campaigned against green taxes in senior roles at the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group from 2008 to 2013.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

The UK pledged to prevent global warming from spiraling out of control by signing the 2015 Paris Agreement – enshrining into law the ambitious climate change target to cut emissions by 78% by 2035. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012.

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