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Mapped: The Tory Network of Climate Denial and Fossil Fuel Funding

DeSmogBlog

The Conservative Party’s ties to organised climate denial go back at least to 2009, when the late Tory peer Nigel Lawson , who was chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher, founded the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. Britain is now their laboratory,” he added.

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Tory Donors Have Pumped Almost £7 Million into Tufton Street Since 2019

DeSmogBlog

Vinson has also given £49,000 to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. Vinson – the IEA’s life vice president and former Conservative member of the House of Lords – has given the IEA a further £596,000 over the last decade.

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Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and the Fraunhofer USA TechBridge Program Announce the Carbon to Value Initiative

Greentown Labs

According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. NYSERDA is supporting the C2V Initiative through the ACRE incubator at the Urban Future Lab. Collaborations such as this will help to solve the climate problems.”.

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Immersive, dystopian exhibit shows what life could be like post-climate change

AGreenLiving

As a wake up call to the possible effects of global warming, London-based multidisciplinary design studio Superflux has created “Mitigation of Shock, Singapore,” an immersive exhibition that explores the possible consequences of sea level rise for city dwellers in coastal areas.

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NRG Energy’s VP of Sustainability Jeanne-Mey Sun Says Customer Demand is Driving Decarbonization

Greentown Labs

It provides 100 percent renewable power to the City of Houston, and in 2015 it was the first power company in North America to receive certification from the Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi) that its climate goals aligned with the two-degrees Celsius global warming limit. Watch the full conversation below!

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Carbon to Value Initiative launches business accelerator for carbontech startups

AGreenLiving

According to scientists, reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will not be enough to keep global warming below an average of two degrees Celsius globally. Inhabitat: What facilities will be available to incubator participants?

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Trends in Food, Agriculture, and Nature-Based Solutions with Mitch Rubin

Elemental Excelerator

I was working at Chobani at the time, managing their incubator programs for food/ag entrepreneurs. That’s extremely inefficient, and land use changes to grow soy and other feed crops contribute significantly to global warming (along with direct livestock emissions). One third of crop land in the U.S.