GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

California is becoming a poster child for the risks utilities face from climate change, from power lines starting wildfires to heat waves forcing increasingly renewable-powered grids to the brink of system collapse. 2018 Camp Fire cost PG&E, “that is enough incentive for a utility to act," Kirsch said.

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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. Before I start my speech, I'd like to add my condolences to the Committee on Climate Change and everyone who knew Professor Dame Georgina Mace. billion today, to more than 5 billion by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The self-styled PopCons included politicians critical of climate policies and science, including Lord Frost, who is a director of the climate science denial Global Warming Policy Foundation , as well as Conservative MP Lee Anderson and Reform party president Nigel Farage.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Last year was one of the worst on record for climate change-related disasters, yet Canada’s federal government spent $18.6 It is 10 times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015. The pipeline has been called a ‘global warming machine.’ The report also noted over $1.3

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2021

Does unmitigated climate change carry the risk of economic collapse? While much of the climate community considers global warming beyond 2C to be highly dangerous, William Nordhaus in his 2018 Nobel in Economics acceptance lecture called 4C "optimal". How will economies respond to climate change?

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 28, 2019

Although the provincial government under Premiere Rob Ford has systematically dismantled climate action in Ontario, students in that province can still have access to the facts about global warming. Evidence for Climate Change offers an inquiry-based educational resource for Grade 10 students in Ontario.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 11, 2024

EVs can scarcely stay out of the news and off social media these days, and while that much exposure for a key climate solution is positive in one respect, in another, it is — more often than not — increasingly negative. Climate change has long struggled with a news disadvantage.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

A senior figure at the influential Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank contributed to a new documentary that spread numerous myths about climate change. According to the website Skeptical Science, which debunks climate misinformation, Climate The Movie contains more than two dozen myths about climate change.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. Among the projections: climate impacts worsen nearly 60 percent of infectious diseases. Source: Mora et al.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

Susan Hall, the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, has opposed key climate policies, backed the reintroduction of fracking and promoted articles online which spread climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. It is an “absolute delusion”, the article suggested, “that humans can control the climate with their CO2 emissions”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 3 mins Organisations promoting climate science denial and anti-environmentalism in Europe share the same rhetoric, narratives and right-wing links as their US counterparts, new research has found.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

The Oxford English Dictionary's Patricia Stewart charts how language related to the environment, climate change, and sustainabiliy is changing to reflect global new realities and concerns. Therefore, it can be used as a tool to understand the evolution of society and the challenges it faces at a given time.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A University of Victoria economics professor who has spent years questioning whether global warming is “a real thing” is doing research supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the Canadian government. Meanwhile his peers are producing leading-edge research about climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2024

In 2018, Matthews posted an article on Twitter from the U.S. Tice has said “CO2 isn’t poison, it’s plant food”, while the party’s London mayoral candidate Howard Cox has said “man is not responsible for global warming”. conservative magazine National Review.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The latest tranche of work came as the agency officially tweaked its name to the Climate Change Committee (CCC) and unveiled an overhaul and redesign of its logo and website. Formerly known as the Committee on Climate Change, the body said it had simplified its name to align with how it is frequently referred to internationally.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2021

Conservative MP Steve Baker has joined the UK’s principal climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). adults thought that addressing climate change was very or fairly important, while three in four wanted politicians to prioritise the issue. He was a Brexit minister from 2017 to 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. She also claims that, while serving in the Treasury, she attempted to cancel the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. She adds that “the U.S. is beyond reach.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A very obvious, very clear signal to everyone in Sweden that things are changing.” Related: Global warming will melt over 1/3 of the Himalayan ice cap by 2100 Located in northern Sweden and about 95 miles inside the Arctic Circle, Kebnekaise has two peaks, each of which has been measured regularly since 1880.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Craig Mackinlay, chair of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), recently hired Harry Wilkinson, head of policy at the anonymously-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), to work for him in Parliament. The NZSG claims to accept climate science and Mackinlay recently said he is “not a climate-change denier”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2022

The Conservative peer Charles Moore has stepped down as a trustee of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which is working closely with backbench MPs to roll back climate policy. The GWPF updated its register later the next day.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Urgent efforts are needed to curb the damaging impacts of nitrogen used in agriculture on the UK's environment, according to research by the Soil Association, which warns there has been a "historical underestimation of its true contribution to global warming".

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

But global warming is increasing sea surface temperatures, which can create a bleaching effect that threatens the survival of tropical coral reef ecosystems, adding to the global biodiversity crisis. 2018 : Ørsted began developing the ReCoral project.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Speaking at the launch of the report yesterday, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres rejected suggestions the escalating coronavirus outbreak could provide a silver lining for the climate in the form of lower greenhouse gas emissions this year. "We million in 2018. It is a matter of time.". In addition, worldwide some 6.7

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

But the parliamentary register of interests shows that Baker received £5,000 from Neil Record , a Tory Party donor and chairman of both the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Forum and the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank, which has received funding from oil giant BP, and has a record of opposing government climate policies.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The letter, sent to 47 company chairs and chief executives, calls on emissions-intensive firms to align all direct corporate lobbying activity and indirect lobbying activity managed by trade associations with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5 Investors signing this week's letters have called on the 47 U.S.

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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. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

million to national groups denying climate change is a crisis, according to federal tax data reviewed by DeSmog. Coyne himself acknowledges climate change is real and has argued frequently over the years that the most efficient way to address it is through a national price on carbon emissions.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. Danone’s size as a major global dairy company provides a significant opportunity for impact. The good news?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Research by DeSmog shows that Porter has a track record of publicly casting doubt on established science on human-caused climate change. Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This is despite new polling showing that 57 percent of 2019 Conservative voters think that Sunak hasn’t gone far enough to tackle climate change, while only 9 percent think he has gone too far. The study also found that burning fossil fuels made heatwaves in China 50 times more likely.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. In 2018, it received $77,000 from the Charles Koch Foundation, which was founded by the CEO of the US-based Koch Industries fossil fuel dynasty. Kruger worked as a senior adviser to the Legatum Institute from 2017 to 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2023

“Defendants now acknowledge that the climate is changing and claim to be leaders in efforts to combat climate change. However, they continue to run marketing and lobbying campaigns intended to mislead policymakers and the public about climate change and Defendants’ role in causing it.”

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The key findings on climate change have claimed it to be the biggest peril to the present generation and the future generations with the last three decades being successively warmer at the Earth’s surface (IPCC “climate change 2014”). 2. The Challenge of Climate Change. 3. Application of Ethics.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. What does this boy care about climate change? million people living under the poverty line (World Poverty Clock, 2018). How much is to be invested for climate change? Only recently did Nigeria take over the title.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Speaking at an event in Manchester hosted by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the Tory MP said students should be taught that they will become “poorer”, “colder”, and eat “insects for protein” as a result of climate policies. That will have contributed to climate change. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2023

A TalkTV presenter co-hosts a YouTube show with the leader of a climate science denial group, on which he has called climate change a “paganistic religion” and said rising CO2 emissions will make the world “more green”. His climate-focused YouTube show appears to be bankrolled by CAR26. million in May 2023.

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