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The scientist who warned the US about climate change says it’s worse than we thought. Again.

Grist

The new research adds to the urgency of conversations about climate change, just weeks before leaders all over the world are expected to travel to Dubai to meet for the United Nation’s annual climate change conference, COP28. Hansen was the first to sound the alarm on climate change in 1988 in testimony to Congress.

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

GreenBiz

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. This is political advertising that they're running to maintain their influence over public policy," he suggested. Climate Strategy. BusinessGreen. Shutterstock.

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How the net zero sceptics' medieval arguments are being overwhelmed by a very modern reality

Business Green

And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. To adapt the old saying, the best time to deliver such policies was a decade ago, the second best time is now. Soaring energy bills?

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Creative pressure: Why the advertising and PR industry is in the sights of the fossil fuel divestment movement

Business Green

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. This is political advertising that they're running to maintain their influence over public policy," he suggests.

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'Half measures won't halve emissions': The green economy reacts to IPCC's climate solutions report

Business Green

Yet while that very broad assessment certainly remains true, today's intervention from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was always going to be a little different. This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. on the table. on the table.

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Pressure on creatives: PR, advertising firms targeted by fossil fuel divestment movement

AGreenLiving

.” 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. “This is political advertising that they’re running to maintain their influence over public policy,” he suggested.

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Market measures, planning reform, and dispelling 'hairshirt' myths: How do green Tories want to fight the next election?

Business Green

Tory strategists themselves with the idea that the next election could be more like 1992 than 1997, but if the Party is to engineer one of the biggest polling recoveries in electoral history the government desperately needs some success stories and positive political momentum to carry it into a general election campaign next year.