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Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho Took Donation From Climate Science Denial Funder

DeSmogBlog

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. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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Meat Industry Using ‘Misinformation’ to Block Dietary Change, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

Experts said the promotion was misleading and ignored the global warming impact of UK diets. Between 2002 and 2021 Mitloehner and the CLEAR Center received close to $12.5 Major changes in law, education and academic institutions could strengthen media and scientific literacy and promote transparency around emissions.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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Rishi Sunak Boasts That Oil Funded Think Tank ‘Helped Us Draft’ Crackdown on Climate Protests

DeSmogBlog

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests. Sunak’s statement yesterday appears to confirm openDemocracy’s allegation that sections of the 2022 law were ‘directly inspired’ by Policy Exchange’s report. million to the party since 2014.

Law 98
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Environmental Literacy: Altering Humanity’s Course

Green Technology

In 2002 Governor Davis announced the need for 28,000 new teachers. Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. So I decided to become a teacher. Were there particular “big ideas” or concepts that you found could hit home time and time again?

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1.5 and 2°C: A Journey Through the Temperature Target That Haunts the World

DeSmogBlog

Every policy, law, regulation, study, analysis, proposal or action that has the climate crisis in mind is built on the basis of those two figures: 1.5 For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. In 2002, U.S. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a.,

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Why 2022 will be pivotal for UK offshore wind

Business Green

As the report dictates, and is now protected by law, it is imperative for the UK to reduce its emissions, with numerous initiatives relying on the goal of installing 40GW of offshore wind by 2030, eventually building up to 100GW by 2050. Building the right framework. Right now, the UK has just over 10GW of offshore wind capacity installed.