Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 28, 2024

As a recent open letter signed by over 250 Canadian economists made clear, ‘the most vocal opponents of carbon pricing are not offering alternative policies to reduce emissions and meet our climate goals. Unlike carbon pricing, global warming is driving up food prices as crop yields dwindle around the world.

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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

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”. As prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015, Abbott’s centre-right Liberal Party was widely seen as hostile to climate policy.

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Global warming Climate change Policy Law 96

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. Business Analysis.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

The first thing to say is that the climate summit and the UK's domestic action on climate are not the same thing, which numerous people in government have been at pains to stress. I expect, deep down, Ministers and their advisers will be delighted when the global summit is over. To keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5

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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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

warming pathway, and to turn 'vague' net zero pledges into action, UN warns. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has castigated governments for their failure in leadership, following a report today revealing the world is facing a catastrophic 2.7C warming target remains within reach.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. Adding science seemingly too recent to have been included in the IPCC Report, the analysis from Europe’s Science Academies urges governments to treat the Climate and Biodiversity Crises as one, and as equally urgent.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Nearly a year on, with governments preparing to convene in Egypt at the COP27 Climate Summit next month, there is mounting evidence the life support machines that had kept 1.5C Yesterday, an analysis of all the national climate plans lodged by governments by with the UNFCCC noted that global temperatures would rise more than 2.5C

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Grist

JANUARY 21, 2022

But the eruption illustrated a question that has been dogging scientific and climate experts for decades: If the world got unbearably hot, should scientists and governments opt to put sulfur dioxide or similar chemicals into the atmosphere to slow the rate of global warming? Is it ethical to even research such technologies?

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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

MARCH 28, 2023

That is the stark conclusion from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) today, which has once again laid bare the glaring failure of successive governments to prepare society - businesses, homes, infrastructure, resources, the natural world, and beyond - for the increasingly damaging impacts of the climate crisis. We had a spate of wildfires.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

Aside from the clear moral imperative underpinning climate action, these are the two key questions which guide almost all green policymaking in the UK, whether in government, finance, or business. per cent by 2100, thanks to both physical impacts and the global socio-economic disruption wrought by rolling climate crises.

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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’. The NZSG claims to accept climate science and Mackinlay recently said he is “not a climate-change denier”.

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Global warming Climate change Policy Politics 93

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.” government. million in funding from the Charles G.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

The researchers found the governance of its local MSW management system to be robust and noted significant support from the state government for the implementation of sorting and composting units across the state. The results have been very positive in both cases.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. Adding science seemingly too recent to have been included in the IPCC Report, the analysis from Europe’s Science Academies urges governments to treat the Climate and Biodiversity Crises as one, and as equally urgent.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2022

The Conservative peer Charles Moore has stepped down as a trustee of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which is working closely with backbench MPs to roll back climate policy. Growing Political Influence. The GWPF updated its register later the next day.

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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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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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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

And both are also susceptible to exponential escalation if left unchecked: in such scenarios, cases of the virus are likely to rise and potentially create new, dangerous variants, while increasing greenhouse gas emissions risk setting off further 'tipping points' that could lead to runaway global warming.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s foremost climate science body, has stated that carbon dioxide “is responsible for most of global warming” since the late 19th century, which has increased the “severity and frequency of weather and climate extremes, like heat waves, heavy rains, and drought”.

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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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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

Governments should prepare to pay coal operators to shut down plants and compensate impacted workers and communities, study argues. And, in the longer-term, governments should also be prepared to pay billions of euros to operators of coal-fired power plants in exchance for agreements to shut down their plants early, it adds.

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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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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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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Education 145

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

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). Political Influence. Truss has been linked to a string of libertarian think-tanks opposed to government climate targets.

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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. We are seeing a coordinated set of campaigns attempting to influence climate policy,” he said.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2023

“I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels to come here today,” Camila Telles told the audience of political activists, business executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum, an annual conservative gathering in Brazil sponsored by the Atlas Network. IEE also participates directly in Brazilian politics, Brun says.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

The revelation comes as the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the government’s independent advisory body on climate change, today stated that the UK is missing its climate targets on nearly every front. Chris Stark, chief executive of the CCC, has said that political leadership was “missing” in the pursuit of net zero.

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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. The government is right. That punctured political football remains in the long grass and we can't afford the same fate for low carbon homes.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

António Guterres urges businesses and governments to deliver fresh, ambitious climate plans at September 2023 summit. global warming goal "is gasping for breath". global warming goal "is gasping for breath". global warming goal "is gasping for breath".

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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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