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Report: As Climate Crisis Expands, Canada Still Hands Billions to Fossil Fuel Industry

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billion supporting the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry. To put that in context, Environmental Defence’s “Canada’s Fossil Fuel Funding in 2023” report estimates that the Canadian government’s accumulated subsidies to the oil and gas sector over the last four years was at least $65 billion.

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MPs Challenged to Cut Ties with Polluters

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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. million in 2022. million in 2022.

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More than 130 companies including Ikea, Volvo ask world leaders to ‘phase out’ fossil fuels

The Verge: Energy

. | Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 130 companies, including Volvo Cars, Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé, and AstraZeneca, signed a letter calling on governments to adopt a global plan to phase out fossil fuels without carbon capture during upcoming international climate negotiations.

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The world came tantalizingly close to a deal to phase out fossil fuels

The Verge: Energy

The beginning of the end for fossil fuels? This text is a step forward on our path towards phasing out fossil fuels, but is not the historic decision we hoped for.” More than 100 countries came to the table pushing for an official agreement to “phase out fossil fuels.”

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French Oil Company Total ‘Knew About Global Warming Impact in 1971’, Study Finds

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French oil giant Total knew that its fossil fuel extraction could contribute to global warming as early as 1971 but stayed silent about it until 1988, according to a new study. In 2018, 89 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions came from fossil fuels and industry. Fifty Years Ago’.

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‘Global warming is not a problem’ says Net Zero Watch Board Member Lord Lawson During COP26

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A board member of a new MP-backed ‘Net Zero Watch’ campaign group has said today that “global warming is not a problem”, defended burning fossil fuels, and said carbon dioxide’s “principal effect” is the growth of plants. Net Zero Watch and the Global Warming Policy Foundation did not respond to a request for comment. .

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Leading Think Tank Met With Minister Over North Sea Energy While Funded by Fossil Fuel Interests

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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.