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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

One of Canada’s top political journalists and pundits served on the board of a foundation that gave $6.4 organization called the Atlas Network that for years has backed efforts in Canada and globally to vilify climate protesters as dangerous extremists. They in turn belong to a U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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. The report was also shared by leading climate science denial groups, including Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. However, by the turn of the century, Earth Day once again faced turbulent political opposition. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

MPs with a history of casting doubt on climate science and opposing green policies are poised for cabinet positions under Tory leadership favourite Liz Truss, prompting fears over the UK’s climate ambitions. However, many have expressed deep misgivings about policies to achieve the target and may still belong to the loose grouping.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Political Shifts: Earth Day Gains Momentum Despite Political Turbulence. This was no doubt a political win for Earth Day. However, by the turn of the century, Earth Day once again faced turbulent political opposition. political arena as president, a period said to have a concerted assault on many green organizations. “

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Policy Exchange received $30,000 from the oil and gas supermajor ExxonMobil in 2017.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. In a blog post, he called their results “very much out of the mainstream.”

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2019

The substantial variability of climate change has contributed to detrimental effects in the economic, social, political and environmental sphere that will continue to persist long after we are gone. Therefore, any changes caused due to the policies would set a chain of events which would alter the existence of individuals in the future.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2022

Baker, a former Brexit Minister, recently promoted a report by the climate science denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), of which he is a trustee, claiming there is no evidence for the climate crisis. In March 2015, McCormick tweeted a Wall Street Journal article headlined “The Political Assault on Climate Skeptics”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” That apparent conservation activist was, in fact, an infamous climate change disinformation artist : Marc Morano, who’s done more than perhaps any other person to manufacture doubt about global warming. Hard-won federal policies like the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act put that target within reach.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 2, 2020

From the enormous interest of the readers of my blog in these topics, I conclude that the feeling that something is going terribly wrong and that a reset is really necessary is very widespread in society. This article was first published on Norbert’s ‘Money and More’ blog. Dossier on the World Economic Forum.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. Congress; and policy pros serving President Obama. Jacobson’s Early Story. He then added in the energy outputs from New York’s existing and potential WWS supplies.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2021

That was my first reaction to one, only a couple of weeks ago, by the Global Warming Policy Forum - an outfit wholly owned by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) - known to disseminate misleading and inaccurate information on climate change. This article first appeared at the ECIU's blog.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This post contains spoilers about the film Don't Look Up, although, let's be honest if you're reading this blog there's a good chance you've seen it already. "We This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. If the world warms up to 4C, every second plant or animal species that we know of will be threatened.".

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Following extensive negotiations, all eight of Sweden's political parties have agreed to a target that would see consumption emissions reach net zero by 2045, in line with the country's ambitious domestic climate target. The environmental group said the target needed to be followed up with policy instruments that would help reduce emissions.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Climate change moves into the mainstream, and more kids get involved While a few climate deniers still fill high-ranking political posts, climate change is much more widely accepted as fact — rather than something to “believe in” — than it was in 2010. In 2018, China enacted a policy called National Sword.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

People can debate whether policy proposals like these are unrealistic , but the scale of the thinking is welcome, and it’s pushing the debate. There’s a growing realization that climate change itself, and the policies that are coming to tackle it, represent a profound financial risk and a permanent shift in valuations.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

In a speech in Glasgow to mark six months since the landmark UN Climate Summit, the COP26 President conceded the Kremlin's "illegal and brutal" war, rising inflation, and cost of living concerns had dominated the political and media agenda in 2022, but stressed that climate action must remain a top priority for governments around the world.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There are plans for huge “SAF” refineries in Paraguay using soybeans as a feedstock and such fuels are permitted under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) , which is the only internationally agreed policy and runs until 2035. replacing fossil fuel fertilisers) and transport sectors.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This blog reveals why we are addicted, and provides a possible methadone that is needed to transform the transportation, buildings and industry sector. Even as our thirst for oil seems insatiable, it is becoming politically and environmentally toxic. How do we transition from fossil-based oil towards a sustainable future? > (2).

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

Concern that the Golden State’s solar industry could weaken is heavily rooted in the murky future of solar policy. Del Chiaro has taken these two attributes and poured them into her career of working in public policy to help pass green laws and regulations. We really need to work together to build the political power necessary to win.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Not limiting her advocacy to her own hometown, she also spoke against Trump's immigration policies. She launched her own chapter of Fridays for Future after she realized that the strong rains and long droughts that hurt her family’s crops could be attributed to global warming. Hilda Nakabuye is from Kampala, Uganda.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

They are seeking to understand both the physical risks associated with climate change as well as the ways that climate policy will impact prices, costs, and demand across the entire economy. We need to be mindful of the economic, scientific, social and political realities of the energy transition. Subscribe to Andrew’s Blog.

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