DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , a director of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has been reappointed by the government as an adviser to the prestigious Board of Trade. The GWPF has gained a number of high profile directors over the last year.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The founder and honorary president of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has announced he will be retiring from parliament. The article neglects to mention that Lawson also set up the influential Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) think tank, a major source of climate science denial and unwavering supporter of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

Emeritus Fellow Professor Peter Dobson has defended his decision to accept a position on the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)’s academic advisory council, just weeks after his colleague Professor Peter Edwards joined the organisation as trustee. Fossil Fuel Ties.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From the Global Team American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference By Cartie Werthman In 2023 we returned to our roots and investigated the ongoing relationship between the fossil fuel industry and advertising and public relations firms. Department of Justice that shed light on a $6.4

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

consulting and PR firm, with a long history of waging influence campaigns for fossil fuel corporations, is under scrutiny by a congressional committee as part of a broader investigation into the decades-long efforts by the oil industry and its allies to block action on the climate crisis. A powerful Washington, D.C.,

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A board member of a new MP-backed ‘Net Zero Watch’ campaign group has said today that “global warming is not a problem”, defended burning fossil fuels, and said carbon dioxide’s “principal effect” is the growth of plants. Net Zero Watch and the Global Warming Policy Foundation did not respond to a request for comment. .

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. And as this letter makes clear, they have had enough. ” Arena said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

West Cumbria suffered a " once-in-a-thousand-year " flood in 2009. Scientists, climate policy experts and campaigners had argued the mine was inconsistent with the government's own aim to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. And then again in 2015. No, it's not that meteorologists can't count. To limit global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Macquarie, Asian Development Bank, and Church of Scotland all strengthen their restrictions on fossil fuel investments. The draft document, which has been widely welcomed by environmental campaigners, forms part of a review of ADB's lending policies, with the multilateral bank's energy policy having last been updated in 2009.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Fossil fuels, primarily gas, are a fixture in millions of American homes and businesses, but the building sector’s climate impact hasn’t received the same scrutiny as coal and gas in the power sector or oil in the transportation sector. New spending on gas infrastructure tripled from 2009 to 2017, rising to $14.9

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

In their latest attempt to use the Russian invasion of Ukraine to argue for more fossil fuel extraction, climate sceptics have revived an old claim that anti-fracking campaigns around the world have been bankrolled by the Kremlin. A November 2009 piece on RT titled “Global Tricks: Climate change we can’t believe in?”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal. Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

He was also formerly an adviser to Consumer Choice Center – a US-based pressure group with links to the Koch fossil fuel empire that has come under fire for advocating against green reforms in the EU without being registered as a lobbying firm. Climate change will disproportionately affect young people.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. The top 25 most sustainable fleets. Media Source.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The research, conducted by the non-profit Global Energy Monitor and shared with DeSmog, found thousands of cases in which high-profile corporations engage in lobbying in state capitols, hiring the same lobbyists that do work for powerful fossil fuel companies. They were working for ‘blood money’.”.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Offshore wind energy powerhouse Orsted demonstrates that a pivot away from fossil fuels is possible. Within 10 years, Ørsted has transformed from a conventional energy company reliant on fossil fuels for 85 per cent of its revenues to a renewable energy powerhouse, with 85 per cent of revenues coming from non-fossil sources.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. To many, cap and trade highlights a contradiction.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

It can’t be about one law or policy, it has to be put at the heart of all policy,” she said. Glen Peters of the Cicero center for climate research in Norway, who coauthored the paper, said structural changes were needed for economies around the world to move away from fossil fuels and other high-carbon activities.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”. The NZSG has extensive ties to the GWPF.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

4: Fossil Fuel Industry’s Racist Past. Understanding the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Legacy of White Supremacy,” was another critical story, written by Kendra Pierre-Louis and published in March. In it, DeSmog looked back on the history of the oil industry’s links to white supremacy. 6: Protecting Pipelines.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 24, 2020

Thanks to continuing cost declines, strong demand for renewable power from businesses and residential electricity consumers, and supportive state energy policies, those who know the industry best believe its brightest days are yet to come. What the renewables industry needs right now. Unfortunately, time is not on our side.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The findings raise concerns over a potential pervasive conflict of interest on the boards at a time when the international insurance sector is under pressure to halt its support for the fossil fuel industry. “When insurers underwrite fossil fuels, they actually are underwriting climate change.”

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Cumulative global solar installations have now surpassed 600 gigawatts, from around 20 gigawatts at the end of 2009. In 2009, China accounted for 2 percent of global installations. These offered policy makers a more effective tool to control deployment rates, and a way to procure increasingly low-cost power.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

Ed Miliband last night promised that a Labour government would provide long-term certainty to businesses through the delivery of an ambitious new climate policy framework, as he hailed the net zero transition as "not just the ethical choice; it is the economic choice as well". Now, of course, fossil fuels are not the answer.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Prime Minister Liz Truss is facing criticism over her support for new fossil fuel projects , including fracking , and plans to block solar farms and scrap environmental protections. Lord Wei is scheduled to speak on a panel called “Are Fossil Fuels Regaining Their Grounds? It’s part of being in a free society.”.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Barack Obama took office in January 2009. He implemented lots of policies designed to encourage the use of renewable energy. Why did President Obama’s tenure see such an explosion in fossil fuel production? Production increased despite President Obama’s policies, and not because of them. oil production averaged 5.8

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

Meanwhile, the Upper Midwest, Texas and the Southeast are expected to have more supply than demand, while the Midcontinent Independent System Operator and the Southwest Power Pool face challenges integrating wind-rich northern regions to fossil-fuel-dependent southern regions. transmission grid.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Revelations about high-level and systemic failures of oversight — both private and public — come at a time when historic federal investments in renewable energy are threatening a constellation of fossil fuel interests and political coalitions vying to preserve profits as the U.S. economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Norwegian oil firm Equinor has been at the vanguard of floating wind, installing the Hywind floating turbine in a fjord back in 2009. For some markets lacking available shallow waters, like California or Japan, floating foundations could be the difference in unlocking a viable, scalable offshore market and not. Floating offshore wind firsts.

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Though there is some domestic demand for wood pellets for electric utilities — particularly in the Northeast — the majority of wood pellets manufactured in the region are exported to the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), to fulfill global commitments to mitigate climate change by reducing reliance on fossil fuels. .

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Consumer Choice Center – a US-based group which has links to the Koch fossil fuel network – has lobbied against green policies in the EU through social media adverts and articles in influential publications without being registered as a lobby group.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

States and cities that adopt the IECC will effectively require new buildings to cut energy use an average of more than 10 percent compared to the previous code, and by more than a third compared to the 2009 version, according to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. percent from the 2009 baseline of 50.8

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Good environmental policy starts with equitable decision-making process. The proposed Office of Equity ** , would have facilitated and track outcomes for state policy and systems change to promote equity in policy, practice, and outcomes and require agencies to use equity assessment tools. We testified in support of this bill.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Scottish climate activists are preparing to protest this weekend at the Mossmorran petrochemical complex, the country’s third largest carbon emitter, in what they say will be Scotland’s first “Climate Camp” since 2009.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Their 2009 report concluded that but for the social and political impediments, the economic and technological wheels were in place to transition the world’s all-purpose energy demand to 100% WWS. 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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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

But this year its mix of good and bad news takes on a particular importance as green businesses face worsening economic headwinds and governments urgently search for the policy levers that can avert an economic catastrophe. Renewables costs are falling fast and clean energy is outcompeting fossil fuels on multiple fronts.

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