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Tories Have Received £8.4 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Polluters, and Climate Deniers Since 2019 Election

DeSmogBlog

million since December 2019 from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and individuals who have expressed or supported climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. The anti-net zero party Reform UK has received more than £2 million in polluting donations since December 2019, accounting for more than 90 percent of its funding.

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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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Graphene-based packaging presented as first truly biodegradeable and compostable alternative to plastic

Envirotec Magazine

” The biopolymers are combined with graphene, a variant of carbon (or allotrope , to be precise) whose modern rediscovery and isolation at the University of Manchester in 2004 led to a Nobel Prize. We all know how pressing the climate crisis is, and plastic pollution is a huge problem, particularly in our ocean environments.

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Exxon’s models predicting climate change were spot on — 40 years ago

Grist

It took an oil tanker, revamped it into a research vessel, then sent it on long journeys around the Atlantic Ocean to measure how the ocean was absorbing rising carbon dioxide emissions. The chart below shows how global warming projections modeled by Exxon scientists compared to the actual temperature that ensued. degrees F).

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GB News Owner Hires Tory Kingpin’s Oil and Gas Linked Lobbying Firm 

DeSmogBlog

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Neither the Legatum Group nor the Legatum Institute reveal details of their investments or donors.

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The Transformation of Earth Day: What Has Changed and What To Expect – Part 2

Green Business Bureau

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. In 1968, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) delivered a report titled Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Polluters. billion hectares, rising to 4.92 billion hectares in 2015.

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Earth Day History: Transformation of a Celebration – Part 2

Green Business Bureau

More carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use is released into the environment, increasing from ~25 GtCO2 in 1999 to ~37 GtCO2 in 2019. In 1968, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) delivered a report titled Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Polluters. billion hectares, rising to 4.92 billion hectares in 2015.