Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The world should not develop any new sources of fossil fuels if it is stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C in line with international climate goals, as there are already enough supplies of gas required to meet global demand, a major new study today has concluded.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest, and Lloyds come under fire for continuing to fund fossil fuel expansion. British filmmaker and climate activist Richard Curtis has announced the launch of a new campaign, which calls on the UK's top high five street banks to stop financing oil, gas, and coal expansion.

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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 newspaper – which regularly runs columns attacking climate action – notes Lawson’s pivotal role in the official Brexit campaign, Vote Leave, during the 2016 EU referendum. GWPF Record.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The world's biggest firms driving the development of clean energy, electric vehicles, sustainable forestry, and other crucial green solutions continue to outperform the broader global market, "leaving fossil fuel companies in the dust", according to fresh investor research released today.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A University of Victoria economics professor who has spent years questioning whether global warming is “a real thing” is doing research supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from the Canadian government. Meanwhile his peers are producing leading-edge research about climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Research by DeSmog shows that Porter has a track record of publicly casting doubt on established science on human-caused climate change. Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2024

percent in 2016, while UKIP won 16.9 The party last year received £135,000 from donors who deny climate science or have business links to fossil fuels. Tice has said “CO2 isn’t poison, it’s plant food”, while the party’s London mayoral candidate Howard Cox has said “man is not responsible for global warming”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The landmark Paris climate agreement called for nations to keep global temperature increase to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, with an aspiration of limiting it to 1.5 The benchmarks are supposed to stave off some of the worst effects of climate change. degrees C above the preindustrial average. degrees C, or 4.5

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Shermer has hosted prominent climate crisis deniers such as Steve Koonin and Michael Shellenberger on his podcast. Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Last week, in a historic first, the former CEO of a major oil company took the witness stand in a New York City courtroom and spent four hours defending his company against charges that it misled investors about the potential impact of global warming on its viability as a business. .

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Nearly one in three directors of Australia’s largest banks have worked for firms operating in the oil, gas and mining industries, DeSmog research has revealed, prompting concerns about a “vested interest” on the banks’ boards that campaigners fear could delay action to address climate change. Fossil Finance.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

None of the coverage notes that NZSG leader and former Brexit minister Steve Baker is a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), whose founder and board member Lord Nigel Lawson recently said “global warming is not a problem”. Backing Fracking.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

World leaders are missing the opportunity to achieve deep cuts in emissions by adopting circular economy strategies that reduce demand for resources, it warns, and it identifies a roadmap that it says could help them meet the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. World leaders committed to limit climate change to 1.5°C

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2022

The United Nations secretary-general has become increasingly outspoken about the failure of the world’s financial sector to stop investing in new fossil fuel projects and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. New funding for fossil fuels is delusional,” Guterres said on June 14.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The report was also shared by leading climate science denial groups, including Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. However, the Civitas report has been criticised as inaccurate by several prominent climate academics and journalists.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

per cent – sends a clear sign to bank that investors are increasingly displeased with its approach to fossil fuel investment. Shareholders at JP Morgan Chase have signalled a growing desire that the world's largest funder of fossil fuels curbs lending activities that exacerbate climate change.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Coal-fired power plants, vehicle-clogged highways and fossil-fuel spewing factories have contributed to the growing European air pollution dilemma. Indeed, the European Environment Agency (EEA) highlighted the issue when reporting that over 400,000 Europeans met their untimely demise in 2016 due to poor air quality.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

The NZSG has been active in influencing the climate debate, gaining widespread media coverage and some support from former ministers. Global Warming Policy Foundation Links. The NZSG claims to accept climate science. But these MPs have faced little “scrutiny” themselves. The MP group’s ties to the GWPF are extensive.

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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. May said the UK has “confounded the pessimists” by taking action on climate change while growing the economy.

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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A Tory MP who suggested it is “morally wrong” to discourage poor countries from pursuing high-carbon growth on climate change grounds has a financial interest in numerous fossil fuel and mining companies. Between 2016-2020, Citi lent £178 billion to the fossil fuel industry, while Bank of America financed £148.7

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A Tory MP who suggested it is “morally wrong” to discourage poor countries from pursuing high-carbon growth on climate change grounds has a financial interest in numerous fossil fuel and mining companies. Between 2016-2020, Citi lent £178 billion to the fossil fuel industry, while Bank of America financed £148.7

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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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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 16, 2021

What you may have missed: the unprecedented heat dome, which subsequently drifted eastward through the Prairies, was 150 times more likely because of human-caused climate change. For comparison, the Fort McMurray fire of 2016 was up to six times more likely as a result of global warming. It’s now our lived reality.

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Rinexii

JUNE 13, 2020

It has been 5 years since countries from around the world gathered together to talk about climate change. Most countries are enabling fossil fuels. Even Norway, typically known for its pristine environment, chose fossil fuels over the environment while struggling with Covid-19. The countries that meet the 1.5C

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. COVID-19 will definitely change the world, and I truly hope that this will bring a new priority for sustainability topics. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

In February, on the eve of the release of a major new report on the effects of climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, several of its authors met with reporters virtually to present their findings. degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

Climate change and global warming are issues that define our times. What does this boy care about climate change? How much is to be invested for climate change? from 10% and, in 2016, the kingdom was on the UN’s list of ‘least developed countries’. 4400 crores* (5.6

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Global investment needs to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels to green energy throughout the 2020s, but bets against that happening look increasingly risky. In order to cap global warming at 1.5C From 2011 to 2015, for example, the low carbon to fossil fuel supply investment ratio was 0.5:1.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2012 she tweeted that “climate change policies are pushing up domestic gas & elec prices” and wrote a Telegraph article that year headlined “Green policies are costing Britons the earth” making the same point and citing IEA research. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

If humanity is to deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep warming below 2C, policies to lower emissions must triple; to keep warming below 1.5C, they must increase five-fold, it concludes. And now 2016-2020 is set to be the warmest five-year period on record.". ppm and 410.04 ppm respectively, up from 411.74

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2021

The OGTC has officially stripped out all reference to fossil fuels from its name, announcing this morning it has rebranded as the Net Zero Technology Centre, just seven months after its decision to retire its original name, the Oil and Gas Technology Centre. "It

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 9, 2020

Sixty-five percent of Russia is covered by permafrost and this threatens fossil fuel infrastructure like pipelines. Thawing permafrost is one of three major warming related feedback loops that include fires and melting sea ice. These feedback loops exacerbate Arctic warming. Sea ice extent for May 2020 averaged 12.36

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

A spokesperson said the company had a “strict zero deforestation policy” as well as “strong commitments to action on climate change”. Climate Denial. IMIL has been a prominent source of climate misinformation in Brazil, allowing it to downplay the vital role the Amazon plays as a carbon sink regulating the Earth’s climate.

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