DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Anti-net zero campaigners and climate science deniers are claiming credit for the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s weakening of UK green policies, as a senior official told DeSmog that civil servants were left “scratching their heads” after being ignored by Sunak this week. Household energy efficiency standards would also be dropped.

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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 Tice has recently been hired by GB News.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

And, in the coming days, a letter will be circulated among corporate networks and trade associations - such as the American Sustainable Business Council and the Ceres Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy - seeking support for the campaign, according to the Clean Creatives group. "PR

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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. They are implausible.”. Baker has a long record of opposing action on climate change.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s clear that a dedicated infrastructure is currently lacking, production costs outweigh less-clean competitors, and that government policy shows technology agnosticism is a myth. Policy-driven benefits. Strong, clear policy frameworks are key in meeting our ambitious renewable energy targets and are currently lacking.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

UK's independent climate policy advisory body is poised to expand its international outreach efforts ahead of next year's crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. 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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May, who was UK Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019, was speaking last night at an event hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), which represents more than 100 Tory MPs who back policies to cut emissions and protect nature. In her speech, May called on Conservatives to unite ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit.

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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. Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report Summary For Policy Makers.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

“They’re saying, ‘Let’s figure out how to make sure that everyone paying into the program is able to access and benefit from the program,’” said Eugenia Gibbons, Massachusetts director of climate policy for Health Care Without Harm. The plan is a good step forward.”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The agency said global energy demand and associated emissions are set to bounce back slower than they did after the financial crisis in 2008-09, but warned the world was still a long way away from a sustainable recovery. The era of global oil demand growth will come to an end in the next decade," Dr Birol said.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

Hence, a huge global debate is going on regarding how to protect, preserve and utilise natural resources in a sustainable way. These issues should be analysed, in consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial crisis of 2008, and it should be considered whether our past development has addressed real needs.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. This is political advertising that they're running to maintain their influence over public policy," he suggested. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4 trillion on public relations, advertising and communications, according to Clean Creatives.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. Congress; and policy pros serving President Obama. The dual papers now made it easier for policy makers to push the 100% WWS model forward.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

“It’s mind-blowing that JBS can continue to make climate claims to investors, even as the company massively increases its emissions,” said Shefali Sharma, Europe director for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a nonprofit advocacy organisation, which calculated the estimates.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

But for the past two years, a committee of 16 people with various expertise in the physical sciences, economics, policy, law, and ethics have been sitting with that discomfort as they met regularly to develop an American research agenda for this nascent and highly controversial field of science. Between 2008 and 2018, U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Telegraph columnists routinely questioned climate science and criticised green reforms as a major backlash against net zero policies raged in the UK, DeSmog can reveal. Ridley wrote last year that global heating was “mostly beneficial”. Overall, nearly one in five (17.6 All of these were anti-green. Credit: Telegraph.co.uk

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. According to Project Drawdown, eating a plant-based diet is "the most important contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming." policy and engagement at BP. . Senior Sustainability Consultant, EY Japan.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming. billion on advertising and PR between 2008 and 2017. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough. Chamber of Commerce ranked second.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Records show that they began to plot ways to deceive the public and undermine policies, and in 1989 they created a coalition of American companies to fight policies and deny that climate change was real. And the company was monitoring all scientific research and policy activities, through a single collection point.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Lacey Act , first enacted in 1900 to ban trafficking of illegal wildlife , then amended in 2008 to include plants and plant products, like timber. Mislabeling of wood is of high concern because illegal logging harms fragile forests, placing them at risk of biodiversity loss. Whether purposeful or not, mislabeling breaches the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil fuel industry trade associations in the US spent almost $1.4tr on public relations, advertising, and communications, according to Clean Creatives. This is political advertising that they're running to maintain their influence over public policy," he suggests. It is a big business.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

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. That paragraph, in article 2, paragraph 2.a., They are our lighthouse.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Italy’s first climate change lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and climate advocacy group ReCommon against Italian oil giant Eni opened with its first hearing on February 16, alleging the company contributed to global warming. to obscure the Italian oil giant’s true contribution to global warming.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. “This is political advertising that they’re running to maintain their influence over public policy,” he suggested. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4 “The sector can help businesses drive positive change,” says Woodford.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

That figure could rise further with more dangerous levels of global warming." How can they accelerate their still underpowered decarbonisation efforts at the same time as bolstering climate resilience, especially when governments are routinely failing to provide the necessary policy frameworks and underlying infrastructure investment?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. According to Project Drawdown, eating a plant-based diet is “the most important contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming.” policy and engagement at BP.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Credit: Alex DROP ( CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) “It was an opportunity for [the UAE] to get more involved in climate change diplomacy, to be able to become a more significant player,” said Rice University Professor Gokçe Günel, who worked for the Masdar renewables company, in Masdar City, in 2010 to create policy proposals around carbon capture and storage.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

A DeSmog investigation in May revealed that one in three GB News hosts spread climate science denial on air in 2022, while half attacked climate policies. GB News host and Conservative MP Philip Davies was one of five MPs to vote against the Climate Change Act in 2008. ARC has been approached for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2023

Opponents of green policies have seized on the energy crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to denounce the UK’s net zero target and push for new, environmentally-damaging fossil fuel extraction. Our analysis found that at least 16 hosts (52 percent) attacked on air the UK’s climate policies, including its net zero target.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

The former prime minister’s 45 nominees – who were approved by his successor Rishi Sunak on Friday, just hours before Johnson’s resignation as an MP – include four Conservative MPs with a history of casting doubt over climate science or policy. Last August, Cox said : “I am now even more convinced man is not responsible for global warming.”

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

MPs with a history of casting doubt on climate science and opposing green policies are poised for cabinet positions under Tory leadership favourite Liz Truss, prompting fears over the UK’s climate ambitions. However, many have expressed deep misgivings about policies to achieve the target and may still belong to the loose grouping.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2022

Conservative MP Steve Baker is reviving a Thatcherite pressure group with financial support from the chair of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, raising fears the organisation will serve as a new hub of opposition to green policies. Baker, Record and the GWPF did not respond to a request for comment.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

” Phase two would focus on the development and implementation of policies aligned with the 2050 climate target and that also protect the state’s gas consumers during the transition away from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

The policy has been billed as a “transformative” partnership designed to put the industry on a net zero pathway, including a 50 percent cut in operational emissions by 2030, but has been criticised by campaigners for leaving the door open to further fossil fuel exploration. Ferrey has donated £615,000 to the Tories since 2008, records show.

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