DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2024

A Conservative peer who is expected to join the board of broadcaster GB News has shares in Equinor, the oil and gas multinational behind the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea. Agnew is set to replace hedge fund millionaire Paul Marshall on the board of GB News’s parent company All Perspectives Ltd, according to Sky News.

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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. Moore denied he was a GWPF trustee. The GWPF updated its register later the next day.

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Global Renewable News

MAY 25, 2023

Highlights NYPA Board of Trustees.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Peter is an experienced board Director and leader of finance, procurement, contract management, tendering and governance teams. He is a Chartered Management Accountant, a member of the Institute of Directors and an experienced Non-Executive Director and Trustee.

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Global Renewable News

MARCH 22, 2023

Highlights NYPA Board of Trustees.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2021

DWP consultation confirms Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)-aligned disclosures will be mandatory across the board by 2025. Trustees must also undertake scenario analysis in the first year and every three years thereafter. As such, smaller schemes should also interpret the bringing forward of this review.".

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2021

The trustees of the Creative Pension Trust have developed two initiatives to keep the scheme on track to achieve net-zero status on carbon emissions for all member investments by 2050. The board of Creative Pension Trust - the fifth largest master trust in the UK - will publish annual reports on its two initiatives from next year.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 14, 2021

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the New York Power Authority (NYPA) Board of Trustees approved 34 ReCharge NY power allocations to 29 customers in support of more than 22,600 jobs across the state that will also spur more than $629 million in private capital investments. The NYPA board also awarded two St.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The government has announced plans to require trustees to measure and report how their investment portfolios are aligned to the Paris Agreement. The proposals follow industry calls for "methodological flexibility" and the DWP said trustees will be supported with updates to statutory guidance.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2020

Lewis appointed chair of WWF UK's trustee board, as he prepares to step down from helm of UK supermarket chain later this year. The Tesco boss will take over from Sir Andrew Cahn - who has been chair since 2014 - next month. He was recently awarded a CBE for his services to public energy policy in the 2020 New Year Honours list.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

The Forum, which rebranded as Net Zero Watch in October, is the campaigning wing of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , which Baker joined as an unpaid trustee last year. GWPF-founder Lord Nigel Lawson, who is also a board member of the Forum/Net Zero Watch, recently wrote that “global warming is not a problem”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The trustee recognises the increased urgency with which climate change needs to be tackled and in it playing an active role in supporting the drive to decarbonise the economy," said Russell Picot, chair of the pension scheme's trustee board. "It

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

The UK's workplace pension schemes watchdog has called on scheme trustees to "act now" to protect retirement savers from climate risk, as it unveiled its enhanced climate strategy for the next four years. He also said TPR had more work to do to "support and educate trustees" , particularly ahead of the new rules in October.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

The trustees of the scheme said the integration reflects the scheme's responsible investment policy and introduces explicit focus and application of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment decisions to better manage risks, including climate change, and generate sustainable, long-term returns for members.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 28, 2021

We’re thrilled to announce that Vijaya Gadde will be joining Planet’s Board of Directors. Vijaya brings over 20 years of legal, technology and business growth experience to Planet’s Board. We know Vijaya will be a great asset to our Board. Vijaya earned a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.S. Welcome, Vijaya!

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They included Lord Frost, a trustee of the GWPF who last year said global warming could be “beneficial”, along with Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who sits on the board of the GWPF’s campaign arm, Net Z ero Watch. Science Denial Several figures with ties to climate science denial turned out for the PopCon launch.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

A Conservative peer who was until last year a trustee of the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group is set to be appointed to a parliamentary committee tasked with overseeing the UK government’s climate policy. Lilley has been contacted for comment. Environmental credentials.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The geothermal project is expected to be completed by 2028, towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2021

Announcing his appointment to the GWPF’s board of trustees on Twitter , Baker said he was “delighted” to accept the invitation from the group’s founder, Lord Nigel Lawson. He then worked with GWPF advisor Viscount Matt Ridley and GWPF trustee Labour MP Graham Stringer on the official pro-Brexit campaign, Vote Leave.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 31, 2022

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the New York Power Authority (NYPA) Board of Trustees has approved economic development awards to three companies that will create 79 new jobs and spur nearly $46 million in capital investments. NYPA’s board also approved a 400-kW low-cost hydropower allocation to Niagara Refining.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Hintze will join several other climate sceptic peers in the House of Lords, including GWPF founder Lord Lawson , former GWPF trustees Peter Lilley and Charles Moore , Matt Ridley , who is on the GWPF advisory board, and outspoken climate sceptics Claire Fox and Anne Widdecombe.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 14, 2024

Aniek Moonen, co-chair of the Board of Trustees of the NGO ‘Women Engage for a Common Future’, said she was excited by the prospect of being able to attract more young to the sector as she had observed many examples of young people going into businesses and asking critical questions about sustainability.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Conservative Party has received at least £600,000 since Rishi Sunak became prime minister from board members at leading Tufton Street groups. The Good Law Project is campaigning for the Charity Commission to open a formal inquiry into the GWPF’s “one sided research attacking net zero policies”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

According to a statement from the DWP, Coffey and Carney's discussion centred on furthering the work of the Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, which was set up in 2015 by the Financial Stability Board - of which Carney is chairman. The amendments tabled so far for the pension schemes bill can be viewed here.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2022

former Vice President of Innovation and President of Chevron Technology Ventures, to its board of directors. We are honored to welcome Barbara to the Board and look forward to benefiting from Barbara’s industry expertise and deep technical knowledge as Greentown continues to grow.”. Dr. Burger joins 11 existing board members : Gilda A.

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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”. The GWPF has rejected mainstream climate science and green measures for over a decade.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Michael Hintze , an IEA trustee and donor to the GWPF, sits on the advisory board of his lobbying firm, Fullbrook Strategies. Sinclair’s appointment was welcomed in the Telegraph by Andrew Lilico, a former colleague who is on the IEA’s academic advisory board. Truss has a long association with the IEA. Anti-Net Zero Links.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

He is also on the board of the think tank’s political arm, the Global Warming Policy Forum, which since 2021 has campaigned as Net Zero Watch. Lawson founded the GWPF in 2009 and remains its honorary president, since stepping down as chair in January 2019.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 26, 2021

Cuomo announced the New York Power Authority’s Board of Trustees has approved three low-cost hydropower allocations that will create 102 jobs across Western New York and spur $145 million in private capital investments. New York Governor Andrew M. The approved awards of 3.58

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

Ingram: My role mainly involves delivering educational workshops to trustees and investment staff from public and private retirement plans, foundations and endowments on the investment case for ESG. Shannon Houde: Tell me about your role in ESG and how you ended up in this space.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

Meanwhile, two NZSG members are current or former trustees of the GWPF: Steve Baker MP joined the GWPF as a trustee in May 2021, and NZSG member Lord Peter Lilley is a former GWPF trustee. In January 2020, Baker’s constituency Conservative Party received £3,000 from IEA trustee Bruno Prior.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

The UK’s principal climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has appointed an Oxford University professor with ties to the fossil fuel industry to its board of trustees. .

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2020

With financial institutions on board, the Global Returns Project calculates that if just three per cent of people with savings Reinvested in Earth, the target of raising $10bn a year could be reached within years. Financial institutions are ready and willing to tackle the Climate Crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

Boards should prepare for legal action based on their response to climate change, a DeSmog investigation has found. We've started legal action against Shell’s Board, seeking to hold it liable for mismanaging the climate risk facing the company. Last year, the hedge fund Engine No.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Emmanuel Faber has been appointed as Chair of the newly established International Sustainability Standards Board. Former CEO of Danone, Emmanuel Faber, has been appointed as Chair of the newly established International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Former Energy and Climate Change Secretary joins board of The Climate Group, ahead of a critical year for business engagement with the climate crisis. Former UK Home Secretary and Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd has been appointed as a Trustee on the UK board of international non-profit The Climate Group.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A climate scientist and NASA fellow by training, Herweijer has worked on sustainability and climate change for more than a decade at PwC, advising financial institutions on sustainable finance, climate risk, and corporate boards, and supporting governments and policymakers in their work to accelerate the net zero transition.

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