DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

On the cost of energy transition, May said: “It is essential that low-carbon and green infrastructure is not simply seen as an upfront cost, but instead an investment that will deliver returns.”. ‘A May also cited polling by the More In Common thinktank, which found concern about climate change was common across political and social groups.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also confirmed the location of two new CCUS sites, re-committing the government to its £20 billion planned investment in the technology, which in theory involves harnessing the CO2 produced from burning fossil fuels. Policy Exchange received $30,000 from the oil and gas supermajor ExxonMobil in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

billion invested in fossil fuels. billion invested in fossil fuels. Mordunat is a director at the Global Warming Policy Foundation and served as its chair from April 2017 to November 2019. Panther Securities The electoral register shows a further £20,000 from Panther Securities PLC, a property investment company.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Neither was there any consideration of these climate threats and their implications in the Future Homes Standard consultation, the 2017 Industrial Strategy, Parliament's pioneering Climate Assembly initiative, or the doomed Green Homes Grant scheme. And that is assuming the world can move on to a 2C global warming pathway.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

The latest findings follow in the wake of Project Drawdown's inaugural landmark report from 2017 , which first assessed the same 80-odd solutions. All that is lacking is the political will and leadership to make it happen," he says. But we need to get started as soon as possible, and dramatically step up our efforts.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It estimates the UK on average stumped up just over $2.8bn in annual climate finance in 2017-18, yet based on the country's cumulative CO2 emissions, national income, and population, a 'fair share' would equate to funding of around $5.8bn.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Climate impacts vary by region, just as health systems vary dramatically depending on local populations, politics, and governance. World Health Organization, Climate-Resilient Water Safety Plans: Managing Health Risks Associated with Climate Variability and Change (2017). 4 (2022): 1371-1390.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil fuel industry trade associations in the US spent almost $1.4tr on public relations, advertising, and communications, according to Clean Creatives. He argues oil and gas company advertising is usually not directed at getting consumers to buy their products and services, but is more akin to political lobbying.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

In November 2017 Shell's said it would aim to reduce the carbon intensity of the energy products it sells in half by 2050, which it said was based upon keeping temperatures below 2C of global warming by the end of the century. warming pathway. The company has already announced plans to double its green energy investment.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Yet it wasn’t until 1992, with the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit , that a global movement to inventory GHG emissions, and with that, carbon accounting, began. Plus we see these mounting regulations on a global level, far beyond the US and the EU.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Between 2008 and 2017, fossil-fuel industry trade associations in the U.S. ” He argued oil and gas company advertising is usually not directed at getting consumers to buy their products and services but is more akin to political lobbying. It is a big business. spent almost $1.4

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. The skills developed in analyzing non-recourse cash flow-based finance are applicable not only to green energy, but also apply more widely in project finance and infrastructure investing. Climate impacts 2.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Katherine Lucey – Founder and CEO, Solar Sister After 20 years working as an investment banker focused on the energy sector, Katherine Lucey looked toward rural east Africa where she saw the lack of access to clean energy both as an inconvenience and a massive hindrance.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEA warns that methane emissions from the global energy sector fell only fractionally last year, despite projects to cut methane leaks providing hugely attractive returns on investment By rights methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry should be one of the easiest climate problems to fix. There is just no excuse.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The threat of scaling up the use of commodities like soy or palm oil with high risk of deforestation is increasing as greater political emphasis is placed on the supposed benefits of “SAF”. In addition, aviation also produces non-CO 2 emissions such as contrails which are estimated to cause a greater global warming effect than aviation CO 2.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The ‘New Conservatives’ group of Tory MPs received a £50,000 donation in December from the investment fund behind GB News, DeSmog can reveal. Legatum partner Alan McCormick is the chair of GB News, while the investment firm has given tens of millions of pounds to the broadcaster.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Key California solar policies that helped drive the adoption of the technology are expected to sunset in the next few years, and uncertainty looms over whether the federal government will renew the 30 percent solar Investment Tax Credit for residential consumers, which is slated to expire at the end of 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2022

Between 2013 and 2017, United Arab Emirates-based investment manager Alan McCormick tweeted numerous articles by climate science deniers, including one calling on readers to “celebrate carbon dioxide”. One of the main investors in GB News is the Legatum Group, a Dubai-based investment firm co-founded by McCormick. Jenkins Jr.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), any group working for a foreign country to conduct political activity or public relations in the U.S. political strategy group GMMB , to lobby for the UAE to host the newly created International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), an intergovernmental body. Architecture in Masdar City, January 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Bseisu has given £417,000 to the Tories since 2013, according to Electoral Commission data , including a donation to Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi’s local party ahead of the 2017 General Election. He has previously called for further investment in North Sea oil and gas, considering it an “industry coming back to life”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Commissioned by The Climate Coalition of NGOs, which includes RSPB, WWF, National Trust, Oxfam, and Women's Institute, the poll found two-thirds of the British public believe the government should do more to combat climate change, up from 57 per cent in 2017. The UK government can show real leadership at the climate summit later this year.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. degrees Celsius of global warming. degrees Celsius.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking, spearheaded by the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), the parliamentary wing of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 18, 2019

A few provincial elections later and we’re back to political fragmentation. As Canada’s Climate Action Network has recommended , “iIt should be responsible for keeping the country on track to meet its 2030 commitments, and empowered to set 2050 targets based on climate science, in line with the goal of holding global warming to 1.5°C.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The NatCon conference is being organised by the US-based think tank the Edmund Burke Foundation (EBF) and intends to catalyse a “revival” of a political philosophy based on “national identity and culture” alongside “god and country”. million ($2 million) from foundations related to petrochemicals giant Koch Industries from 2004 to 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The book by Kwasi Kwarteng, Liz Truss, Priti Patel and Dominic Raab, contrasts this with Silicon Valley’s investment in risky start-ups, which it praises as “capitalism in its rawest, most primordial form”. 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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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

The implications for green businesses and the climate movement are obvious, with supply chain management, climate finance, carbon markets, tariffs, and offsets, and low carbon infrastructure projects just a few of the areas where corruption and a lack of institutional oversight can quickly undermine progress and hamper much needed investment.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

An internal BP document from 2017 includes a slide prepared for the company by the Brunswick Group, a public relations firm, that lays out a major PR effort to “advance and protect the role of gas – and BP – in the future of energy conservation.” They’d be wise not to celebrate too soon.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Utilities will be front and center in America's efforts to combat global warming, from drastically cutting their own carbon emissions to assisting other sectors, like transportation, in cutting theirs. Today, no U.S. Berkshire Hathaway: No two regions the same. Credit: PacifiCorp). million customers.

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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) Curtis has taken in a more modest $89,000 from oil and gas interests since 2017. 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

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Amid February’s record-breaking temperatures, climate is emerging as a battleground – and faultline – between the UK’s two biggest political parties in the run up to the next general election. Wrangling between the Tories and Labour has also opened the door for fringe political activists.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 10, 2022

On the website of CAR26 the group questions whether carbon dioxide is a “significant factor in global warming” and suggests that teaching children about the dangers of climate change is “borderline child abuse”. If you were worried about sea level rises, you’d be better investing the money in defences.”

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

After decades of political unrest, a relative emerging peace had emboldened the government to put its oil up for sale. Any internal disputes over resource sharing could spell disaster in Somalia, a politically fractured country recovering from decades of war. The two companies vanished from Mogadishu. Credit: Twitter/Asair Firin.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Set up by the owners of GB News and involving “senior leaders from politics, media, culture, business, and academia”, ARC claims that it will address the six “fundamental issues of our time”, including “energy and resources” and “environmental stewardship”. And ARC’s anti-green credentials are further exposed by the makeup of its key members.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Steve Brown, Orcadian’s founder, regularly shared posts on social media from his recently-deleted Twitter account that cast doubt on climate policy and modelling, including content from the Global Warming Policy Foundation , the UK’s principal climate science denying group. Find out more about EnQuest in its company profile.

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