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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Abbott announced he was “pleased” to join the board of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which had “consistently injected a note of realism into the climate debate”. Ex Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has joined the UK’s main climate denial group saying: “we need more science”.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The electricity produced by renewable resources is cleaner than the electricity produced by coal-fired power generation because it does not emit carbon into the atmosphere that causes global warming and pollution to Earth. Some technologies progress independently of political support.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. However, a 2023 court case found that the government’s plans only added up to 95 percent of the reductions needed to meet its net zero targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

The firm says it matches environmental need – such as carbon reduction and offsetting – with funding partners. Political ecologist Dr Scott Leatham said: “As local authorities and communities look to rebuild and reconnect, there is increasing evidence that people want to see a green recovery.

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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. The article neglects to mention that Lawson also set up the influential Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) think tank, a major source of climate science denial and unwavering supporter of fossil fuels.

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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. Elsewhere in the report, the UN urges world leaders to act on methane emissions and carbon markets at the COP26 Climate Summit.

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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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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

The report, called the Global Land Outlook 2, comes from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and follows a landmark UN report earlier this month that called for “rapid and deep” emissions cuts to avoid the worst effects of global warming. That is, if humanity can muster up the political will.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The world doesn’t have much wiggle room left Since they adopted the Paris agreement, the report says, countries have taken enough action to slow global warming a bit. Each year, greenhouse gas pollution has continued to grow globally. Carbon emissions? The world doesn’t have much wiggle room left.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2023

While there, Jones edited a 1997 Fraser Institute book entitled Global Warming: The Science and the Politics , which contained essays by people like Willie Soon and Patrick Michaels , prominent spreaders of doubt about the foundations of climate science whose work has been funded by fossil fuel companies.

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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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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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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. Similarly, the fact government policies are currently on track to drive a 2.5C

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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 19, 2020

Yale Program on Climate Comm : Politics and Global Warming April 2020. Climate 2020 Podcast : How Do You Message Climate in This Political Moment? Twitter : Mark Campanale, Carbon Tracker. WaPo Opinion : Protesters Want Justice — Including on Social, Economic and Climate Demands.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Craig Mackinlay, chair of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), recently hired Harry Wilkinson, head of policy at the anonymously-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), to work for him in Parliament. Gesture Politics’. Wilkinson is joining political economist Ruth Lea on Mackinlay’s team.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The people inside this conference, the execs from oil and gas, the political figures from the governments that work with these companies, they know exactly how bad what they’re doing is,” said Benjamin Hoffman, another member of the Sunrise Movement. It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

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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. We’re in a CO2 famine,” one interviewee claims. A screenshot of Stephen Davies of the Institute of Economic Affairs in Climate The Movie: The Cold Truth.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The two groups had previously unearthed a 1970 report by Eni’s Isvet research centre that warned of the “catastrophic” climate risk from the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by burning fossil fuels. Eni’s prediction was quite accurate: Global warming in the year 2000 was exactly 0.5 ° C and CO2 concentrations were around 370 ppm.

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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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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 14, 2021

The consequences of global warming and the abuse of Earth’s natural resources are becoming more apparent, and people are starting to take notice. Everyone from political leaders to everyday citizens is reevaluating their wasteful behaviors and making intentional changes to save the planet. Below are some suggestions to consider.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

A report published on 26 August by an independent group of experts warns that reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is now “too little too late”, and will not achieve the long-term temperature goals identified in the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C C by the end of the century.

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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

MARCH 30, 2023

While researching my book, I read through hundreds of pages of internal documents from the company, which revealed that Imperial Oil was studying the link between fossil fuels and global warming as early as the 1970s. They were instructed to stress the “many uncertainties” associated with stopping global warming.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

In this digital, mobile and social media age, we are constantly bombarded with new environmental, economic, social, geo-political and technical terminology that creates confusion, misguided actions and misinterpretation. The emergence of environmental buzzwords started out with global warming, then became climate change.

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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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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

In an open letter yesterday, chief executives of major wind players including Ørsted, Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, RWE and SSE - as well as trade bodies Renewable UK, WindEurope and GWEC - urged G20 leaders to throw their weight behind the burgeoning wind sector if the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are to be kept alive.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

More than one-third (82) of the scientists, however, underlined the threat posed by the synergistic interplay and feedback loops between the top five— with global crises worsening one another “in ways that might cascade to create global systemic collapse.”.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Surprisingly there were few original compositions that condemned political leaders or fossil fuel companies. speech, used in ‘Greta Thunberg sings Swedish Death Metal’, does blame political leaders, but her speech is copied exactly and so doesn’t constitute an original song. Greta Thunberg’s ‘How dare you?’

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

Governments should beware sacrificing global decarbonisation efforts on the altar of economic prosperity, but likewise must not decelerate growth to achieve a cleaner world. Covid-19 has brought to the forefront two themes prevalent in current economic attitudes towards global warming. Better to find a way to do both.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. This document shows that the oil industry was informed of the science of global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2022

NZW is the political arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group, which published a paper last month claiming there is “no evidence of a climate crisis”. In 2017, Ryan praised the Conservative Party for cutting carbon emissions. Political Influence.

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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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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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