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

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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) filed its latest accounts on 18 January, showing an income of £280,000 for the year ending 30 September 2023, a drop of £110,000 from the previous year.

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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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GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

It is gradual, and it derives largely from the familiar and widespread practice of burning fossil fuels. And it manifests as natural phenomena like heat waves, droughts, fires, storms and floods; we need experts, assessing global data and long-term trends, to tell us if what is happening is truly unusual.

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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

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. Porter’s Energy Blogs Climate models accurately predict global temperature rises, with observed warming tracking the forecasts.

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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

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

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. last November was potentially made 60 percent more likely due to global warming.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Even in the most optimistic scenario considered in this report, the chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is only 14 percent, and the various scenarios leave open a large possibility that global warming exceeds 2 degrees Celsius or even 3 degrees Celsius,” the report noted. degrees C, or 4.5

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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. DeSmog has previously revealed that the Conservative Party received £3.5

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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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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

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. Latest official records show that all donations made to Reform UK so far this year are from individuals with ties to climate science denial or fossil fuel interests.

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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. These impacts are costly, with Morgan Stanley estimating that climate-related disasters cost the world $650 billion from 2016 to 2018.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Between 2016 and 2020, Australia’s “big 4” collectively provided $32.41 billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry. Between 2016 and 2020, Australia’s “big 4” collectively provided $32.41 billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry. Fossil Finance.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

While they cloak their demands for more fossil fuel extraction in concern for their constituents’ household bills, the MPs have strong ties to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading producer of climate science denial and misinformation. Global Warming Policy Foundation Links.

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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. billion last year. degrees: ?

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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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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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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

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. The report was covered in the the Times, Daily Express, Daily Mail, the Spectator, and the influential conservative blog Guido Fawkes through both news reports and opinion pieces.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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.” based libertarian think tank founded in 1977 by fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch that has long disputed the facts of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all global fossil fuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit. carbon budget, an estimate of the maximum amount of carbon dioxide emissions that can be emitted before tipping the planet into dangerous levels of global heating.

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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 5, 2022

As environment secretary between 2014 and 2016, Truss cut subsidies for solar farms, calling them “a blight on the landscape”, and claimed without evidence that they were harming food production. Truss has ties to other American fossil fuel-linked groups. During a trip to the U.S.

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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. We know that animal agriculture is now recognized as a leading cause of global warming. Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). UN Global Compact, Arlene Thompson. Jillian Lennartz (2016).

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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. Theresa May’s own record on climate change has not gone uncriticised, however. .

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 16, 2021

For comparison, the Fort McMurray fire of 2016 was up to six times more likely as a result of global warming. While a decline in fossil fuel use is well-documented, crops will increasingly be impacted as well, by droughts or unexpected snowstorms. Climate change threatens many important industries.

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Rinexii

JUNE 13, 2020

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. They enacted laws aligning themselves with the Paris Agreement in 2016 on an individual basis. What we can do.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Back in 2015 it managed to generate 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy sources for 299 days, and in 2016, it ran for 271 days on everything but fossil fuels. And their example just goes to show that clean energy works as well as the energy derived from fossil fuels.

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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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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date. In the broadest sense, overshoot is a future where the world does not cut carbon quickly enough to limit global warming to 1.5 Global warming coming back down is not going to bring you that species back,” she said. Warming of 1.5

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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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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

HFCs are less harmful than CFCs, but they create another problem – they have a strong heat-trapping effect that is contributing to global warming. CFCs were destroying the ozone layer high in the Earth’s atmosphere, which is essential for protecting life from the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. What can replace HFCs?

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