DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2022

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss referenced a Daily Express article earlier today by Patrick Minford, a free market economist who is best known for his dubious 2017 claim that a no-deal Brexit would boost the UK economy by £135 billion per year. Political Influence.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 25, 2023

“I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels to come here today,” Camila Telles told the audience of political activists, business executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum, an annual conservative gathering in Brazil sponsored by the Atlas Network. IEE also participates directly in Brazilian politics, Brun says.

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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. Consumer Choice Center was founded in 2017 by the libertarian advocacy group Students for Liberty.

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GreenBiz

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 For example, last year 20 U.K.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Leading oil majors have taken steps to reduce methane emissions in recent years, with the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative group of oil and gas giants reporting late last year that they had collectively cut methane emissions 22 per cent since 2017. Companies have also touted sizeable new investment programmes to detect and fix methane leaks.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

But getting those emissions down to zero is shaping up to be one of the most politically difficult parts of the government's decarbonisation agenda. Though Steve Baker cites the Poll Tax disaster in his public warning to government, lessons can be learnt from more recent policy failures, such as the so-called 'Dementia Tax' in 2017.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This phenomenon of global warming is taking its toll on the most vulnerable populations around the planet," Johnson said. I'm determined that political differences will not impact on #COP26. That's why we are pledged here in the UK to deliver net zero by 2050. Similarly, there was a 3.7

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May also cited polling by the More In Common thinktank, which found concern about climate change was common across political and social groups. In 2016, Theresa May received a £15,000 donation from Ian Taylor, chair and former global chief executive of Vitol Group, the Dutch oil and shipping company.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange received $30,000 from the oil and gas supermajor ExxonMobil in 2017. 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 Policy Exchange has also accepted funding from fossil fuel interests.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Freund said that it was important for policymakers to interact with lobbyists in “any healthy democracy”, but that “wherever there could be an influence of money on politics, the bare minimum is to make it transparent and give voters the possibility to hold decision makers accountable.”

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 8, 2020

The organization hopes to achieve its mission through initiatives that unite the public, policy-makers and businesses behind a common goal of reversing global warming. Sunrise Movement Founded in April 2017, Sunrise Movement is focused on stopping climate change while creating jobs in the process.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 29, 2019

It also relied upon the fact that only 27% of listed offers in December 2017 had a green element, but did not calculate respective market shares and then relied upon averages that would be affected by green premiums for some buyers. Allowing such “green” offers is in fact a great way to help fight global warming in a politically painless way.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

For example, while terms such as ‘global warming' and ‘greenhouse effect' have decreased in use across society, ‘ climate crisis ' (added to the OED in October 2021 but first used as early as 1986) is increasingly being used in preference to ‘climate change'.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 8, 2020

The organization hopes to achieve its mission through initiatives that unite the public, policy-makers and businesses behind a common goal of reversing global warming. Sunrise Movement Founded in April 2017, Sunrise Movement is focused on stopping climate change while creating jobs in the process.

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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.". "So

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

They study glaciers and global temperature changes, climate solutions and adaptation, the oceans and the human influence on global warming. This study adds a new cast of characters to our understanding of the key actors in climate change politics,” Robert J. billion on advertising and PR between 2008 and 2017.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Like a chicken and egg dilemma, who came up with these goals first, politics or science? For the first time, it proposed encompassing all the gases that cause global warming in a single indicator. Political Origins of 2°C. The next key moment in the 2°C story is no longer scientific, but political.

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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. Courtesy of CAUSE.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

But he was met with calamity in the fall of 2017 when grape pickers were bombarded by swarms of a new invasive insect, the Spotted Lanternfly. 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.

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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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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). Public health and climate professionals must combine forces.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Provenance: Inside Climate News featured this document in a 2015 story titled, “ Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago.” Provenance: Inside Climate News featured this document in a 2015 story titled, “ Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

OpenDemocracy reported last year that Policy Exchange’s US wing, American Friends of Policy Exchange, which provides funds to the UK branch, received $30,000 (roughly £23,700) from oil and gas giant ExxonMobil in 2017. Lord Frost , is currently a senior fellow at the think tank.

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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. Societal pressure is driving Shell's climate efforts.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The company in 2017 spun off from its parent Hispanagar, a 50-year-old producer of seaweed extracts for uses in food production and medical science. And because water nutrient pollution - unlike global warming - is largely a localised problem, a lot of work can be done at the local, regional or national level.

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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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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 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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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. It reveals the behind-the-scenes action that takes place to convert the rhetoric of climate change into the action on the ground that actually reduces the GHG emissions and global warming. Climate impacts 2.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

"Our new Global Methane Tracker shows that some progress is being made but that emissions are still far too high and not falling fast enough - especially as methane cuts are among the cheapest options to limit near-term global warming," said IEA executive director Fatih Birol. There is just no excuse.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Her matter-of-fact, intelligent, non-emotional critic of gender politics as they play out at major solar industry events is a testament to her ability to organize and inspire the female contingent of the industry to stand in their power.

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