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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Abbott has previously said that “climate change is probably doing good” and is a long-standing advocate for coal power, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. The GWPF said in 2015 that “policies to ‘stop climate change’ are based on climate models that completely failed to predict the lack of warming for the past two decades”.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

My interest in issues like climate change stems from my early career in public service on the graduate program at Her Majesty’s Treasury. I worked as chief of staff for — now Lord, then Sir — Nick Stern on his landmark review on the economics of climate change. Houde: What’s the investor outlook for ESG?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Boris Johnson will today be told to "get off the sun lounger and start being a statesman", as Labour's Shadow Business Secretary Ed Miliband warns that without dedicated intervention from the government COP26 risks becoming merely a "greenwash summit". The answer is surprisingly simple but has never been properly set out by government.".

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Climate finance commitments must be met, net zero targets enhanced, and the Paris Agreement finalised, developing countries warn. In a position paper published this week, the Least Developed Countries (LDC) group have set out their key negotiating demands ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

According to research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) released in November, the RT website – along with fellow Russian outlet Sputnik News – was one of ten online sources responsible for 69 percent of climate change denial content on Facebook over the previous year. Deniers Promoted.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2021

Facebook is “fuelling climate misinformation” through its failure to get to grips with misleading content, according to a new report that calls on companies to boycott the platform until significant action is taken. Lead Researcher Sean Buchan told DeSmog: “This year sees the most important UN climate summit since the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Tens of thousands of new homes built in flood-prone areas of England are at risk of being denied insurance for flood damage in future, according to a new analysis from think tank Bright Blue, flood-related costs are set to soar as the climate threat increases unless changes are made to planning rules.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

MCS warned that declining mackerel populations could have a detrimental effect on wider ecosystems as the fish is an important prey for whales, dolphins and tuna. The northeast Atlantic mackerel population has been declining since 2015, which is concerning," warned Charlotte Coombes, Good Fish Guide manager at MCS.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 23, 2021

They held banners with the phrase “The climate needs you” and giant alarm clocks to emphasise the urgency of tackling climate change. The action was organised by The Climate Coalition, a group of civil society organisations pushing for greater action on climate change. target alive is closing.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May said the UK has “confounded the pessimists” by taking action on climate change while growing the economy. May went on to say government action on climate change is popular, including among voters in the “Red Wall” seats the Conservatives won from Labour in 2019. A Unifying Issue’. Chequered Record.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

Campaigners said that they were “saddened” by the recent appointments to the GWPF, an organisation founded by climate science denier and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Nigel Lawson in 2009 to combat what it described as “extremely damaging and harmful policies” designed to address climate change. False Debate’.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The study warned subsidies have continued to rise into 2022, in large part due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and subsequent hikes in energy prices that have prompted government's to come forward with sweeping energy price support packages at the same time as profits for energy companies have been "supercharged". per cent, 1.6

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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. It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land,” the IPCC has also said.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

A six-fold increase in funding flows from richer nations to poorer nations to support nature protection is needed to help slow the rate of biodiversity loss, charities have warned. The time to act is now - there is not a moment to waste.".

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He currently serves as a director of the Conservative Party Foundation – the party’s multi-million pound endowment fund, created under his watch in 2009 to manage “legacy funds to support the long-term finance” of the party.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

But it has been instrumental in an array of oil industry campaigns meant to sow doubt about climate change , attack climate scientists, and play up the benefits of fossil fuels. . Last year, a House committee held hearings in which members of Congress questioned oil executives on their role in peddling climate disinformation.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 9, 2022

Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme weather events such as storms and floods. In 2009, failure of the Malahide Viaduct in Dublin, Ireland was caused by foundation scour. This presents a growing threat to structures that could be susceptible to scour during periods of high water flow.

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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

Candida auris, a drug-resistant yeast, emerged in 2009 on three continents simultaneously. But as global temperatures have risen over the decades, the fungus may have evolved to adapt to a warmer climate. Climate change, the theory goes, has trained C. Some researchers theorize that C. auris how to infiltrate our bodies.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A new report released by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network found that up to 14% of the world’s coral reefs have been depleted due to climate change between the years 2009 and 2018. The good news is that, although coral reefs are vulnerable to climate change, they are still resilient.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. The IPCC has warned us not to allow temperatures to surpass 1.5

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Climate: severe climate change and increasing levels of atmospheric CO 2 have been noticed since 1950. Freshwater: freshwater is severely affected by climate change and human activities such as deforestation, agricultural need, urbanisation, and industrialisation. 2009; Steffen, W.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

The implications and ingenuity of the suit gave the people of Kivalina an international media platform to raise awareness of their ongoing fight to survive the perils of climate change. Cole’s journey was tragically cut short in 2009 before he could see the full impact of his life’s work unfold. Landmark Climate Change Lawsuit.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

In one sense, the climate change link seems obvious. But the connection between climate change and drought is not as straightforward as it seems. One problem with linking drought and climate change is that there is little agreement on what drought actually is. “No degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Celsius (2.2

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

It's obvious that the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been dramatically different to anything provoked by repeated scientific warnings about climate change. Climate change, on the other hand, may well bring about just as many deaths or more, but responses have not been sanctioned so quickly.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

IMF and World Bank's annual meetings are a 'critical moment' to raise climate finance for vulnerable nations, COP26 President warns. Richer nations have collectively failed to meet their promise - chalked up in 2009 - to mobilise $100bn a year in support of poorer countries.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JULY 20, 2020

the stimulus legislation during the 2009 financial crisis?—?was Finally, while coronavirus caught many of us off-guard, scientists, business leaders, and investors have been warning us for years about another major economic threat?—?climate climate change. I have faith in the American clean energy worker.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Engineering association warns 'waste hierarchy' that informs UK policy decisions on waste and recycling is 'inadequate and not fit-for-purpose'. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has called on the government to reform its approach to waste and recycling, arguing the current model is unsustainable, outdated, and short-sighted.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The alarm is a test of the community’s emergency warning system, which has alerted residents to numerous incidents over the years at the nearby Chevron oil refinery. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. every first Wednesday. As the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 28, 2020

The reduction in GHGs reinforces the message of scientists who have been warning governments to lower emissions for decades. The coronavirus gives us a small foretaste of what a world ravaged by climate change will be like. We will never be able to address the climate crisis if we return to business as usual.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Students for Liberty has received over $1 million in funding since 2009 from the philanthropic organisations of Charles Koch, who co-owns Koch Industries – one of the largest privately-held companies in the US – which trades heavily in oil and gas. The warnings were repeated in an article from the group’s public policy analyst in 2023.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

But experts warn flood risk is expected to soar over the coming decades in the UK because of climate change, with serious implications for the affordability and availability of building insurance. The government's flood insurance review is expected to wrap up in September 2020.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The UK is among a host of wealthier nations which have yet to stump up their "fair share" of funding to help developing countries decarbonise their economies and contend with the worsening impacts of climate change, despite a long-held pledge that they would collectively provide $100bn a year in climate funding by 2020.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The latest River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) for England provides a legally-binding framework and updated package of environmental objectives to tackle water pollution from water companies, the agriculture sector, climate change, and population growth, according to the EA.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In a longform feature released in April, DeSmog looked backed on “The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer,” Luke Cole , who tragically died in 2009. Explicit climate denial is no longer a dominant tactic used by the fossil fuel industry, concluded Stella Levantesi and Giulio Corsi. 6: Protecting Pipelines.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an important new report about how dire the consequences of climate change are becoming , and how fast we need to move to avoid the worst. So, what should companies take away from this latest warning? What should they do ?

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