DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

CT Group was founded by political consultant and lobbyist Lynton Crosby in 2002. Hiring CT Group appears to be the latest attempt by the Legatum Group to expand its political influence. This raises a number of interesting political questions.” global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If countries fully implemented their plans to cut carbon emissions as currently promised under the Paris Agreement framework, the planet will still warm 2.9 Assuming a world in which countries also meet their current goals to zero out net carbon emissions in the coming decades, temperatures will still increase about 2.5

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

Last week Wood Mackenzie released an analysis – A delayed energy transition – on the implications of a five-year delay to the energy transition, both on CAPEX spending across segments as well as on the penetration of global warming. For carbon removals, $130 billion to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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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. Lawson claimed that “global warming is not a problem” as recently as 2021, in an article written for the Spectator magazine during the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. GWPF Record.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Different policies are developing around the globe for renewable energy resources to reduce the dependence on fuel to produce electricity. Some technologies progress independently of political support. But in that case, good governance and ethical considerations must still be the main focus.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

of global warming under national climate plans submitted ahead of next week's COP26 Climate Summit. The findings show that roughly half of global domestic greenhouse emissions are now covered by some form of net zero goal for around mid-century. warming pathway.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Tory MP leading a backbench campaign against the government’s net zero policies is currently employing two aides linked to the UK’s most high-profile climate science denial group, DeSmog can reveal. Gesture Politics’. Two other members of the NZSG, including former Brexit minister Steve Baker , also have connections to the GWPF.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. The Commentary illustrates the multiple crises interactions: replacing tropical forests with agriculture reduces biodiversity at the same time as releasing stored carbon, reducing carbon uptake in the land and increasing emissions of other greenhouse gases (GHGs).

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 19, 2020

But a new roadmap from researchers at UC Berkeley and the policy firm Energy Innovation shows the grid can get to a level of 90% clean in just 15 years' time. Resources: UCB Goldman School of Public Policy : The 2035 Report. Yale Program on Climate Comm : Politics and Global Warming April 2020.

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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”. ‘Politically-Motivated Climate Deniers’.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Recent findings from the System Change Lab collaboration , similarly found that emissions reduction progress across six "climate critical" sectors were falling significantly short of a pathway which would stave off dangerous levels of global warming. That said, the findings are not universally bleak.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

The Business Council of British Columbia, whose more than 250 members include ConocoPhillips, Shell and the pipeline builder Enbridge, last month appointed Laura Jones as its president and CEO, calling her “a nationally recognized leader in public policy.” million in funding from the Charles G. Last year, D’Avignon met with B.C.’s

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A second just-released report reveals that to mitigate that growth, the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies would have to reach gigaton scale in less than 10 years, which might not be possible. percent of global annual CO2 emissions, Achakulwisut said.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last year Hicks rhetorically asked on his blog whether climate researchers were “over-hyping because they have a political agenda,” terming them “those chronic-doomster semi-scientists.” As for politics, I am liberal, while Dr. Peterson is conservative,” he said. Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The film suggests that we shouldn’t be worried about greenhouse gas emissions, because plants need carbon dioxide. The IEA has extensive influence in politics and the media. From Brexit to Trussonomics, the IEA has consistently peddled and promoted destructive and damaging policies,” Green Party MP Caroline Lucas told DeSmog.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. The Commentary illustrates the multiple crises interactions: replacing tropical forests with agriculture reduces biodiversity at the same time as releasing stored carbon, reducing carbon uptake in the land and increasing emissions of other greenhouse gases (GHGs).

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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

MARCH 26, 2024

Based on the results, they propose the creation of a national carbon credit fund to support sustainable waste management initiatives. million metric tons of CO 2 equivalent, for annual economic benefits of USD 44 million to USD 687 million in carbon credits.” “That would correspond to between 4.9 million and 57.2

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

New report from PwC models a tiered carbon pricing framework proposed by the IMF earlier this year and finds it would broadly pay for itself, while slashing carbon emissions. per cent at a cost of less than one per cent of GDP. per cent at a cost of less than one per cent of GDP.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2022

The finding sheds new light on a network of PR agencies, right-wing politicians and think-tanks working to drum up opposition to climate policies as part of a broader drive to cut regulation and boost production of fossil fuels. In 2017, Ryan praised the Conservative Party for cutting carbon emissions. Political Influence.

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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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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

CEOs of the world's leading wind energy firms and turbine manufacturers have warned G20 leaders that they must urgently raise their national wind power ambitions and work to unblock "policy and regulatory bottlenecks" if the world is stand a chance of meeting climate targets. are to be kept alive. are to be kept alive.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A poll showing public support for a referendum on the UK’s net zero goal covered on the front page of yesterday’s Telegraph was paid for by a newly-launched climate science denial group run by a leading figure in actor Laurence Fox’s political party. and “What are the good and bad impacts of any global warming?”.

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. Climeworks carbon capture factory in Iceland. There is no time to lose, the report authors said. degree C rise in temperature.

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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

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

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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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

JANUARY 28, 2022

Singer, an American atmospheric physicist who died in 2020, argued that climate change was natural and not increased by human-caused carbon dioxide emissions. He argued that warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions was “trivial”. In 1990 he founded the Science and Environment Policy Project (SEPP) that expounded these views.

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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. This comes as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last week announced several delays to the implementation of his government’s net zero policies.

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Grist

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s been a wild start to 2022: Omicron cases are surging around the world, the oceans are hotter than ever , and a group of climate scientists are suggesting that the world’s leading global warming experts stop doing science. But in most cases there isn’t a direct line between science and policy action — and there never has been.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2020

Real results for investors, the economy and the planet hinge on how ambitiously and transparently BlackRock uses its capital and influence to accelerate climate progress and policy – and whether other leading asset managers do the same. What’s Missing: Climate Policy. The Urgent Need for Investor Leadership.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

A fair policy strategy to shift away from gas boilers without heaping costs onto householders can win the public’s support - but it is needed fast, writes Green Alliance's Joe Tetlow. 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.

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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. Let Them Eat Carbon’. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables.

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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. The earth is now absorbing more energy from the sun which, they claim, is increasing the rate that the planet warms up.

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