The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Nowadays, energy is very essential for the quality of life and has a pivotal factor in the economic growth and development of any country. Different policies are developing around the globe for renewable energy resources to reduce the dependence on fuel to produce electricity.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho accepted a £2,000 donation in January from Lord Michael Hintze , a funder of the UK’s leading climate science denial pressure group, DeSmog can reveal.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

A letter by the Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG) of 19 MPs and one peer, published in the Sunday Telegraph this week and covered on the front page of Monday’s Daily Mail as well as by the BBC , has fed into the ongoing debate around rising energy bills. ‘Politically-Motivated Climate Deniers’. Backing Fracking. Backing Fracking.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 22, 2021

Biden and the future of clean energy politics. Have you heard about the clean energy triangle? . The theory goes that in order to rapidly deploy clean energy, you need three elements: technology; policy; and finance. As a candidate, Biden called for 100 percent clean energy in the U.S. Sarah Golden.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

And that’s just one of several legal cases seeking to hold oil and gas firms responsible for their contribution to global warming. In this episode, we also hear from journalist Emily Atkin, author of the newsletter Heated, about why she and others are angry about the oil industry’s political ads.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

A new campaign is calling on MPs to break the fossil fuel sector’s “chokehold” on politics in a critical election year. Lawmakers returning to work today (Monday) were greeted with smoke flares and a demand to “Stop Polluting Politics” from a banner hung off London’s Westminster Bridge.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) filed its latest accounts on 18 January, showing an income of £280,000 for the year ending 30 September 2023, a drop of £110,000 from the previous year. It has also watered down schemes to phase out gas boilers and scrapped new energy efficiency regulations on rented homes.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Morial Convention Center, a small but dedicated group of environmental activists affiliated with Sunrise Movement New Orleans protested the start of the 20th edition of the Americas Energy Summit & Exhibition. Varello added that European countries are willing to pay more for shorter contracts to avoid political scrutiny.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

Global climate goals at risk without more ambitious support for wind power from G20 countries, CEOs warn. global warming pathway", and current growth forecasts for wind power installations are far below what is needed for a 1.5C are to be kept alive. At present, however "the world is spinning towards a 2.4C

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The paper published in the journal Climatic Change examines publications from eight of the most prominent contrarian thinktanks in six EU countries over 24 years from 1994 to 2018, and argues the organisations enjoy a “remarkable” level of political influence for their size.

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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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Let's be honest, no one wants to see screaming headlines around rising energy costs, particularly at this time of year. For me, increased energy costs should act as a signal to governments to invest further and quicker in renewable energy because, over time, renewable energy becomes more affordable.

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge The nations of the world have to seriously ramp up their clean energy ambitions because time is running out to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement, a sweeping new United Nations report card says. Each year, greenhouse gas pollution has continued to grow globally. Carbon emissions?

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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. This week on The Energy Gang , we’ll dig into the study and its implications. Energy Innovation LLC : 2035 Data Explorer. No new fossil fuel plants.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Even in the most optimistic scenario considered in this report, the chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is only 14 percent, and the various scenarios leave open a large possibility that global warming exceeds 2 degrees Celsius or even 3 degrees Celsius,” the report noted. degrees C, or 4.5

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The past year registered record-shattering global temperatures. degrees C (2 degrees F) of global warming, compared to pre-industrial averages. People around the world are already witnessing epic heat waves, wildfires and drought at 1.1 With current policies putting the world on.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The articles have all been critical of current policies to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions and ensure the transition to renewable energy. The idea of “an energy transition that will dramatically reduce the use of fossil fuels and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is a fantasy”, wrote Blackmon on 16 August.

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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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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

By Bill Ireland, Logan Energy. Hydrogen is one of the energy solutions that can significantly address climate change and has a vital role to play in decarbonization. In the last decade, green hydrogen in particular has shown great promise as an integral part of the renewable energy mix needed for a sustainable future.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Kathryn Porter was introduced as an “energy consultant at Watt-Logic” by business presenter Sean Farrington on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, which has an audience of around six million, on Monday morning (June 19). She also spoke at a webinar run by GWPF’s campaign arm Net Zero Watch last June.

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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 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

AUGUST 3, 2023

The government on Monday announced that it plans on awarding hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas exploration licences, beginning this autumn, with Energy and Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps recently declaring that he wants to “max out” the UK’s North Sea oil and gas reserves.

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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

APRIL 21, 2022

Delighted to support climate & sustainability agenda with focus on renewables, green H2 & new energy. Delighted to support climate & sustainability agenda with focus on renewables, green H2 & new energy. The UK’s COP26 team and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy declined to comment.

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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. Energy-Efficient Appliances .

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

While they cloak their demands for more fossil fuel extraction in concern for their constituents’ household bills, the MPs have strong ties to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading producer of climate science denial and misinformation. Global Warming Policy Foundation Links.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 7, 2024

These comments, originally made by Moore and echoed by Birtles, have “absolutely no basis in fact”, according to Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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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”. Political Influence. In politics, discretion is key,” reads another message on the site.

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Mosaic

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Solar-finance company Mosaic says its survey shows one-third believe their current education and experience well-position them for a clean energy job shift, while two-thirds believe they need on-the-job training. The clean energy revolution involves an incredibly diverse workforce. “We They asked a cohort of more than 5,000 U.S.

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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

JULY 21, 2022

Minford is a fellow at the Centre for Brexit Policy (CBP), a think-tank in which several figures also hold key roles in the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). In the piece, he dismissed renewable energy as “thermodynamically inadequate”, echoing language from a recent GWPF report written by Constable. Political Influence.

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