Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The report, published this morning, argues the government's ongoing support of overseas fossil fuel infrastructure not only fuels environmental degradation and global warming, but is a huge missed opportunity to generate tens of thousands of UK jobs as part of a 'green recovery' from the coronavirus crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

One of Canada’s top political journalists and pundits served on the board of a foundation that gave $6.4 The speaking bureau Speaker’s Spotlight described him at the time as “one of Canada’s most provocative and insightful commentators on political and economic issues.” Coyne was also a sought out public speaker.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

During the leadership contest, Truss defended her tax plans by citing economist Patrick Minford, an IEA trustee who has institutional connections to the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Neil Record , chair of the IEA, is also chair of the GWPF’s campaign wing Net Zero Watch. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change. Harris said that to address this systemic problem, Cole argued that the law was not the ultimate weapon, but only one, and that the overarching goal is political empowerment toward systemic change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. Reform UK has made transport a pillar of its political campaigning, claiming there is a “war on drivers” being waged via anti-pollution and low-traffic schemes. billion invested in fossil fuels.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

Recent studies from from the world’s top climate modeling groups suggest that high clouds that shade the Earth during the day may burn off as the world warms increasing global warming. Extinction is a political choice. These threats are not new, in 2015 it was clear that climate change was real and demanded urgent action.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The first report, which the United Nations secretary-general called a “ code red for humanity ,” was released last summer and addressed the physical science of climate change , warning that global warming was “widespread, rapid, and intensifying.”

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Helmsley website says that it provides “communications, government relations, thought leadership and political risk to companies on the front line of the energy transition.” “The Downer was appointed as the High Commissioner to the UK in 2014 by Tony Abbott , who also recently joined the board of the GWPF.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

The sprint for a new prime minister marks the latest act in the UK’s political drama. All of the remaining contenders were elected in 2019 on the Conservatives’ manifesto pledge to “lead the global fight against climate change by delivering on our world-leading target of Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050”. . Foreign Secretary.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. By February 2014, Jacobson, with the help of students and colleagues, finished a draft of the roadmaps for all 50 U.S. Jacobson’s Early Story. WWS Roadmaps for 50 States.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From 2015 to 2023, he was a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s leading climate science denial group. Lord Moore has said that: “On climate change, I resist what I see as a political viewpoint masquerading as ‘the science’. Food and water security are affected, as is national security,” Gove said.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

Since the bug was first identified in 2014, it has been devastating vineyards and orchards in the Northeast. The sap passes quickly through the bugs as they dine, meaning they simultaneously squirt waste—politely called “honeydew” by entomologists—from the other end as they eat. Honeydew is a perfectly good fruit.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

million to the party since 2014. Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, has repeatedly attacked Labour over the connection, writing in the Daily Mail that Labour has become “the political wing of Just Stop Oil”. Lord Frost , is currently a senior fellow at the think tank.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. The Consulate General’s efforts and engagements cover a range of political, commercial, cultural, security and economic interests to Canada in our region.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Meanwhile, global warming-driven climate change, caused by our combustion of fossil fuels and slash-and-burn domestication of the landscape, crescendos increasingly toward catastrophe. In 2014 , the average emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to the atmosphere per person was 4.6 Here is a case in point. metric tons in France, 6.5

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2023

These seven states are all classed as authoritarian by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2022 Democracy Index , which is judged according to five measures: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. The world looks set to surpass the key 1.5C

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The magazine was edited in the 1960s by the late Nigel Lawson, who would become Thatcher’s chancellor and in later life promote climate science denial through the Global Warming Policy Foundation , based at 55 Tufton Street. Cluff was its chairman until 2004, during which Charles Moore, Dominic Lawson, and Boris Johnson were editors.

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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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Unsustainable

AUGUST 2, 2019

More than 1 million people , fleeing not just poverty but the drought, food insecurity, economic instability, civil wars, and insurgencies in the Middle East and Africa, arrived in Europe, their flight driven in no small part by global warming driven climate change that Europe was in no small part responsible for creating.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

billion spent in California to install solar in 2013, according to the SEIA, and more expected to have been spent in 2014, the golden state’s solar industry is still vulnerable to be toppled from its ruling position. We really need to work together to build the political power necessary to win. Even with $7.1

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Boris Johnson ’s resignation honours list includes MPs and political advisors with ties to climate science denial and the oil and gas industry, DeSmog can reveal. Last August, Cox said : “I am now even more convinced man is not responsible for global warming.”

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

One of the major advantages for using the Biofuel is that they are renewable energy and don not lead to global warming unlike the fossil fuels. Wind control has broadened quickly, its offer of generally speaking force use toward the complete of 2014 was 3.1%.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2023

Parliamentary Influence MAG appears to have growing political influence. In 2014, Baker called MAG a “serious, strategic and focussed riders’ rights body”, in October 2021 he publicised his membership of the group, and in July 2022 he endorsed MAG’s petition for motorcyclists to be able to use bus lanes.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

It comes after DeSmog revealed that Mackinlay, whose group claims to accept climate science, employs two parliamentary aides linked to the UK’s leading climate science denial body, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Political Ties. Innospec did not respond when contacted for comment.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 6, 2020

The climate failure of the political regimes in the U.S., As of 2014 Germany was getting 27.4 Global warming is real. German German Chancellor Angela Merkel proves that major industrial powers can also be climate leaders. Merkel stands out in stark contrast to nations failing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. However, by the turn of the century, Earth Day once again faced turbulent political opposition. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

As revealed by DeSmog this week, a firm owned by a director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups – also donated £20,000 in March to House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and Conservative MP Liam Fox. ’ 2022 report into think tanks. Britain is now their laboratory.”

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. However, by the turn of the century, Earth Day once again faced turbulent political opposition. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Back in 2014, Rees-Mogg said: “I would like my constituents to have cheap energy rather more than I would like them to have windmills.”. Labour criticised her for claiming that “the ice caps aren’t melting after all” and that “global warming isn’t actually happening”. Jacob Rees-Mogg – Business and Energy Secretary.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons. Featured Photo: Harrison (coal-fired) Power Station, Haywood, West Virginia.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports. More than 600 organizations in 57 countries have signed a petition calling on political leaders to “end global fossil fuel addiction that feeds Putin’s war machine,” a demand that was led by Ukrainian activists at the beginning of March.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

As Environment Secretary in 2014, Truss called solar farms “ugly” and a “blight on the landscape”, and announced a cut in subsidies for the industry, claiming solar farms were a threat to food security. One said: “Clear evidence that the ice caps aren’t melting after all, to counter those doom-mongers and global warming fanatics”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 3, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2022

Perry and Hillgrove, who was convicted for tax fraud in 2014, co-founded 6 Hillgrove PR, which has worked with clients including Julian Assange, the National Lottery and the Big Issue. Mappin has a history of right-wing politics. Associate of Nigel Farage.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

McKinley (R-WV) who in 2016 — just a year after the Paris Agreement was negotiated at COP21 to limit global warming to 2°C (3.6°F) Meanwhile, at least two of the five have expressed doubt about climate science in the past. This includes David B.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. DonorsTrust gave the group nearly $8 million between 2008 and 2017, according to federal tax data. .”

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This paper explores how governments and private interests have hijacked public narratives to serve political or corporate agendas. This applies to the fossil fuel and other industries as well as political.parties and most notably, political leaders like Donald Trump. Media and politics are intimately intertwined.

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