DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2021

Conservative MP Steve Baker has joined the UK’s principal climate science denial group the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Lawson, who was previously the Group’s chair, announced he was stepping back from its activities in 2019. Find out more about the Global Warming Policy Foundation history of disinformation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

million people now work in renewable energy worldwide, but IRENA warns strong policy action essential to sustain growth in the wake of Covid-19. million people worldwide working in the sector in 2019, up almost 500,000 from the year before, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). As many as 11.5 As many as 5.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2022

But the survey was commissioned by Net Zero Watch (NZW) – the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – which last week released a paper calling for renewable energy from wind and solar to be “wound down” completely and for coal-fired power stations to be kept open.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

A few weeks ago it was the cost-of-living crisis, which they tried to pin on green policies. The group is chaired by South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay , and was formed around the time the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s campaigning wing, the Global Warming Policy Forum, rebranded itself as the similarly-named Net Zero Watch.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, C, we have eight years to almost halve greenhouse gas emissions: eight years to make the plans, put in place the policies, implement them and ultimately deliver the cuts. To have any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, The clock is ticking loudly.”.

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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”.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Limiting global warming to 1.5C [above pre-industrial levels] with no or limited overshoot requires deep, rapid and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions of 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035 relative to the 2019 level and reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 13, 2021

Public equity asset managers drive what kinds of companies are valuable and thus have the capital to grow, to what industries retirement savings flow by default and what companies can achieve a scale that affords them outsized political and policy influence. In a 2019 study , the U.S. percent white male-led. SRI/ESG mutual funds.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The UK’s main climate science denial group has been invited to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the country’s energy transition and the cost of its net zero policies. Gas and nuclear have to be fast-tracked if there is any chance of publicly acceptable, long-term climate policies.”.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

With that broad context, let’s look at 8 fascinating developments in sustainability from 2019. Beginning in late 2018 and stretching into 2019, she created a global movement, spoke truth to power , and collected more than 10 million followers on social media. The climate protest movement explodes. People are taking notice.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

Susan Hall, the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, has opposed key climate policies, backed the reintroduction of fracking and promoted articles online which spread climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. Fracking was banned in the UK in 2019 over concerns that it causes earth tremors. Well said [David Frost]”.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, Vi Lyles of Charlotte, North Carolina, Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California and Jenny Durkan of Seattle — working in their communities to create powerful dialogues and meaningful policy action. From the carbon footprint of city buildings and housing to energy policy, mayors are on the front lines of sustainability.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

In January, Cox spoke on two panels hosted by CAR26 , a climate science denial group that questions whether carbon dioxide is a “significant factor in global warming” and suggests teaching children about climate change is “borderline child abuse”. Fossil Fuel-Powered Cars.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2022

The Conservative peer Charles Moore has stepped down as a trustee of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which is working closely with backbench MPs to roll back climate policy. The GWPF updated its register later the next day. Record of Climate Denial.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was produced globally in 2019, the weight of 350 cruise ships the size of the Queen Mary 2; $57 billion in gold and other components discarded – mostly dumped or burned. per cent of 2019’s e-waste was collected and recycled. per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Good environmental policy starts with equitable decision-making process. The proposed Office of Equity ** , would have facilitated and track outcomes for state policy and systems change to promote equity in policy, practice, and outcomes and require agencies to use equity assessment tools. We testified in support of this bill.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

That level of support could have fully funded every major wind and solar project in Canada from 2019 to 2021 12 times over,” said Levin. “It The pipeline has been called a ‘global warming machine.’ Ending fossil fuel subsidies should be the low hanging-fruit of climate policy,” said Levin.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”. The NZSG has extensive ties to the GWPF.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Even the IEA’s middle-road "Stated Policies" scenario would require an 80 percent increase in grid investments over the next decade compared to the previous 10 years. If existing fossil-fuel-based power infrastructure continues to operate as is, global warming would be locked in at 1.65 Grid operators in China, the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

CTL burns some of its CH 4 to produce CO 2 and steam (since CH 4 has 21 times the global warming potential of CO 2 ) and sends the rest to a thermal power plant with which it partners. In 2019, when the study was conducted, these two landfills had installed capacities of 8 megawatts (MW) and 29 MW respectively. 36780 ).

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Billionaire Australian hedge fund manager Michael Hintze, one of the few known funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), is set to receive a peerage, according to a Sunday Times report over the weekend. Lewer received a £500 ticket to the Conservative Party’s Black and White Ball from Hintze in October 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 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

MARCH 1, 2024

A report by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a nonprofit advocacy organisation, claimed the Brazilian company’s targets omit around 90 percent of all their emissions, including those from deforestation to create pastures and feed for livestock. which was funded by a $2.9

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

She is the latest high profile figure to ally with NZW’s parent organisation, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , which is the UK’s principal climate science denial group and part of the Tufton Street network of free market think tanks. Rapidly cutting carbon emissions is necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The detrimental effect of global warming on worker productivity is already having a tangible impact on global labour markets and economic growth, according to a major new report from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute. hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of warming.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

Grassroots protests influenced the UK’s decision to impose a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing – fracking – for shale gas in 2019, an effective ban climate sceptics are now calling to be overturned. claims that, while experts and world leaders gather at the conference, “the scientific community is split over global warming”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The party made Britain the first G7 country to adopt a legally-binding net zero target in 2019, but a refusal to accept established climate science persists at the margins. Entitled “Unlocking the potential of UK shale gas,” the panel was chaired by NZW head of policy Harry Wilkinson – and drew an audience of about ten.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

The newest publication is an attempt to distill everything the panel has said since August 2021, when it began releasing its sixth assessment of global warming. There’s no new research in this latest report, but it injects new urgency into scientists’ and activists’ calls for rapid, systemic action from global decision-makers.

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

She is the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newly updated policy statement on climate change, which appeared earlier this year. The new policy statement’s number one recommendation is that its members “incorporate climate change counseling into clinical practice.” Dr. Ahdoot made good on that vow.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Anti-net zero campaigners and climate science deniers are claiming credit for the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s weakening of UK green policies, as a senior official told DeSmog that civil servants were left “scratching their heads” after being ignored by Sunak this week. Household energy efficiency standards would also be dropped.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

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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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

It has been highlighted that any increase in the present-level global warming (1°C > pre-industrial periods) will likely be trailed by adverse consequences to food and water ecosystems, human security and peace, and economic well-being. PHIL, vol 4, 2012, [link] Accessed 2 June 2019. 19, 22-23, Accessed 2 June 2019.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. E-commerce is expanding globally. In 2020, global e-retail sales increased by 27.6% in comparison to 2019, making up 18% of total retail sales globally. The Need for Sustainability. Starving Stomachs.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The survey , conducted by YouGov, was commissioned by “ CAR26 ”, a campaign group that questions whether carbon dioxide is a “significant factor in global warming” and suggests teaching children about the dangers of climate change is “borderline child abuse”. and “What are the good and bad impacts of any global warming?”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

It called for the government to reverse its 2019 moratorium on hydraulic fracturing — known as fracking — to “enable shale gas developments”, arguing this would provide “cheap local energy” during the cost of living crisis. Climate Denial Campaign.

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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. Gt and in 2019 it reached 101.6 billion last year.

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