DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

These include articles plugging the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which is currently working with the Net Zero Scrutiny Group to use Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to demand more fossil fuel extraction. A November 2009 piece on RT titled “Global Tricks: Climate change we can’t believe in?”

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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

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.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Billionaire Australian hedge fund manager Michael Hintze, one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), is set to receive a peerage, according to a Sunday Times report over the weekend. In April, the GWPF published a paper claiming that there is “no evidence of a climate crisis”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Graham Stuart MP was listed as a keynote speaker on Tuesday at the four-day Global Investment in Sustainable Development conference in London, hosted by the CC Forum, a company which touts itself as the “green Davos”. in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?” in a call and response chant of “Global warming is?”,

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The shift away from fossil fuels among major financial firms and institutions worldwide continues to gain momentum, with Macquarie, the Asian Development Bank, and the Church of Scotland all strengthening their investment policies governing coal, oil and gas assets today.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Professor Ray Bates, an Emeritus Professor at University College Dublin , has been appointed to the academic advisory council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Climate ‘Contrarian’.

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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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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".

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 4, 2023

The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with the effort to limit global warming to 1.5C – the legally-binding limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. The OfS is the higher education regulator in England, which works to protect the interests of students.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

Government Crafted many Policies to Combat Climate Change. Because of the importance of agriculture and rural area, Vietnam’s government launched Nation Target Programme on New Rural Development or the National Target Program on Climate Change in the year 2009. The effect of global warming has already started to impact Vietnam.

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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. August 18, 2009. Indeed, Exxon says it has spent only $300 million on its algae biofuels research since 2009, according to the Wall Street Journal , a rounding error for the company.

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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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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Now, the planetary boundaries framework has generated enormous interest in science, policy, and practice. 2009; Steffen, W., We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C There are nine planetary boundaries identified.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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. Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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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. And global warming could help other fungal pathogens spread, too. Climate change, the theory goes, has trained C.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In fact they have prominently opposed such action, regularly providing space for climate scepticism and running frontpage stories that challenged the existence of global warming and its relationship to human activity. Dec 2009 vs today pic.twitter.com/eEohLzX60P. The Daily Express.

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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. To limit global warming to 1.5C And then again in 2015.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

As explained by Julio Friedmann, senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy, "We have to create an industry the size of the oil and gas industry that runs in reverse. Fifty years ago, climate models accurately predicted that greenhouse gases cause global warming (Hausfather et al, 2020).

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As changing weather patterns driven by global warming have extended California’s wildfire season and increased the intensity and size of the infernos burning across the state, residents who don’t take precautions do so at their own peril. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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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. It is 2009 and the 35th G8 Summit. marked a before and after.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

This complexity has resulted in conflicting messages about the role of human-caused global warming in the droughts that have ravaged the American West and the rest of the world. That thirsty atmosphere has been behind most of the studies that have found a clear link between global warming and persistent droughts.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

He believes that Checkoff dollars are empowering groups like NCBA and NPPC to take policy positions that hurt small producers. On March 29, more than 130 independent producer groups signed onto a letter to Congress requesting that the upcoming Farm Bill bans Checkoff funds from going to trade associations that lobby on agriculture policy.

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Business Green

JULY 10, 2020

He is the 63 year old founder-director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). It simply notes that "donations can be made to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the charitable arm of our think tank, or to the American Friends of the GWPF".

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Grist

AUGUST 18, 2021

Australia had established a historic standard for a single outbreak with its 2009 Black Saturday fires; its 2019–20 Black Summer burns broke historic standards for a season. For the past 50 years America’s federal fire agencies have operated under a policy that has sought to prevent bad fires while promoting good ones.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. From French filmmakers Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent, Tomorrow is a mostly uplifting journey around the planet, discovering people and communities focused on solutions through agriculture, energy , economy, education and government policy.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As revealed by DeSmog, a number of ARC advisers have a history of attacking net zero policies and questioning climate science, many of whom are speaking at next week’s conference. 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.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There are plans for huge “SAF” refineries in Paraguay using soybeans as a feedstock and such fuels are permitted under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) , which is the only internationally agreed policy and runs until 2035. replacing fossil fuel fertilisers) and transport sectors.

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Rinexii

JANUARY 22, 2021

This would become the first official pandemic plan, only to be reshaped again in 2009. Their purpose was to help keep policy makers updated with the latest science on climate change. Although it might seem like climate change has only been acted on in the past few years, countries were concerned back in the 1970s.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) recently reviewed by DeSmog show that from 2007 to 2009, Edelman carried out a $6.4 The campaign paid off: In 2009 IRENA established its headquarters in Masdar City. Hundreds of pages of documents filed with the U.S. million campaign to boost the United Arab Emirates’ green reputation. Under the U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Lenders still see projects in African nations as too risky, and only 2% of global renewable energy investment has been in Africa, even as nearly a billion people have little or no access to electricity. Almost the entire world population was exposed to global warming at some point between June and September.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The impacts of global warming are deeply regressive, disproportionately hurting our poorest and most vulnerable communities. The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama. Because the court got it wrong, Congress was inspired to step up and get it right.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

I worked for the United Nations for several years as a law and policy adviser and have been involved in international negotiations. It was the first time the majority of nations formally recognized the need to control greenhouse gas emissions , which cause global warming that drives climate change. What is COP26? The U.S. ,

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Steve Baker, the powerful backbench MP and fierce critic of government policies to cut emissions, has been handed a ministerial role in Liz Truss’s new Conservative government. Arch Critic of Climate Policies. Baker, a former Brexit minister, returns to government after more than four years on the backbenches.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Conservative Party Foundation Limited was founded in 2009 with the purpose of raising and managing “legacy funds to support the long term finance of the Conservative Party”. Ord’s business partner is Terence Mordaunt, who is a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation – the UK’s principal climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

Hintze, an Australian hedge fund manager who is set to join the House of Lords, is one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). The GWPF, founded by former chancellor Lord Lawson in 2009, is working with MPs to campaign against net zero.

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