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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

One key player was the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) — an international industry lobbying group that was instrumental in early efforts to deny climate change and generate opposition to policy action to reduce emissions. A report that AccuWeather produced minimizing the impact of global warming on extreme weather in 1994.

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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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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report , released on Monday, contained some of the group’s strongest language yet affirming the link between human activity and global warming. We’re citing the hell out of it,” said Pat Parenteau, a law professor at Vermont Law School.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2024

The UK government’s most senior climate minister has publicly celebrated a petrol campaigner who wants to “scrap net zero” and claims “man is not responsible for global warming”. He also has a record of climate science denial, writing on X in August 2022: “I am now even more convinced man is not responsible for global warming.”

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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. The UK’s most prominent climate science denial group has seen its income drop to the lowest level since 2016, DeSmog can reveal.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

To stand a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, As of 30 September 2021, 120 countries, representing just over half of global greenhouse gas emissions, had communicated new or updated NDCs. To have any chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, Climate change is no longer a future problem.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

An open-access Methane Map will be launched at COP28 in a bid to accelerate abatement of this greenhouse gas, considered second only to CO2 as a cause of global warming. Environmental intelligence company Kayrros will launch the live map, which draws insights from its flagship Methane Watch product.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

But for many, the industry’s law-breaking is a cold and hard lived reality, especially for people in climate-vulnerable communities and in the Global South. The fossil fuel industry considers itself above the law, has lied about climate change for decades, and humanity is now paying the price. I’m joining that call.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

City leaders touted the new law , which is intended to tightly restrict future use of natural gas-powered heating and cooling in new construction, as an important part of the city’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Led by an interagency working group, the “Net-Zero Game Changers Initiative” will direct billions of dollars under the bipartisan infrastructure law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act toward five initial priorities: Efficient Building Heating and Cooling , including refrigerants with low global warming potential; Net-Zero Aviation (..)

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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. This fall, Exxon Mobil went to court, facing charges that the oil giant lied to shareholders and to the public about the costs and consequences of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Department of Justice to investigate whether Shell and other Big Oil companies’ “alleged campaigns of climate deception” may have violated federal law. Global warming could challenge the very fabric of the world’s ecological and economic systems,” warned Shell executive Ged Davis in one newly uncovered document from 1989.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As part of compesnatory measures, Deutsche ErdWärme will conduct reforestation w ForstBW is a public law institution responsible for the management of over 324,000 hectares of state forest in the state of Baden-Württemberg. There are a number of studies that need to be completed before construction work on the geothermal plant can start.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2023

Hoboken is making this claim against fossil fuel companies under the state-level equivalent of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law used successfully to prosecute organized crime groups such as the Mafia starting in the 1970s and later the tobacco industry. Credit: U.S.

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Green Living Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

With […]. The post Biden Administration Announces Approval of EV Charging Infrastructure Across 35 States appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Weatherford, a lawyer from the corporate law firm Baker Hostetler, stated in opening arguments that Mann was so disliked that “even his own family won’t come to court to defend him.” Michele Bachmann, who once claimed that global warming is “all voodoo” and “a hoax,” was in court to support Steyn as he testified.

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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

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

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A recent analysis from the World Benchmarking Alliance, a nonprofit organization that assesses how well corporations are working towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, found a “dangerous lack of progress” from the oil and gas sector towards preventing global warming from exceeding 1.5

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Grist

MAY 16, 2023

Since 2017, cities and states have filed around 20 lawsuits against fossil fuel companies based on state laws that prohibit deceptive advertising, seeking money to adapt to the effects of climate change. It’s hard to draw a direct line between global warming and wildfires.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

A useful way to think about the effort and timescales required is to consider the " Carbon Law ," which was coined by my friend Johan Rockström. Despite the name, this isn’t a physical "law" of the universe but rather a set of recommendations. So, what does the Carbon Law say? The Carbon Law outlines a possible path forward.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 13, 2022

Funding for this initiative comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy is proposing nationwide guidelines for (EV) charging stations. The guidelines aim to provide standardization for EV charging stations across the country. Not to mention, […].

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2023

The Daily Telegraph’s chief interviewer and columnist Allison Pearson has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , one of the UK’s principal climate science denial groups. This appointment adds to the influence of the GWPF in the press and potentially the amount of sway that it holds over the Conservative Party.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

Experts said the promotion was misleading and ignored the global warming impact of UK diets. Major changes in law, education and academic institutions could strengthen media and scientific literacy and promote transparency around emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Eni’s prediction was quite accurate: Global warming in the year 2000 was exactly 0.5 ° C and CO2 concentrations were around 370 ppm. This is a mandatory prerequisite for filing a defamation lawsuit under Italian law. Eni also understood the need to limit fossil fuel pollution decades ago, according to the report.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date. In the broadest sense, overshoot is a future where the world does not cut carbon quickly enough to limit global warming to 1.5 Global warming coming back down is not going to bring you that species back,” she said. Warming of 1.5

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2020

Leading law firm commits to reduce carbon emissions 50 per cent by 2030 against a 2018 baseline. Legal giant Slaughter and May has won to the race to become the first law firm to have ambitious new emissions targets approved through the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

of global warming under national climate plans submitted ahead of next week's COP26 Climate Summit. The findings show that roughly half of global domestic greenhouse emissions are now covered by some form of net zero goal for around mid-century.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2021

Both cases argue that inaction by governments when it comes to limiting dangerous global warming risks basic rights such as health and life. The European Court of Human Rights’ approach contrasts with that of the EU Court of Justice, which is responsible for interpreting and upholding EU law.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

If you remove aerosols from the air, you reduce the health impacts of pollution, saving thousands of people from lung and heart disease, but you might also make global warming worse. The passage of clean air laws, which removed these aerosols from the atmosphere, ironically unleashed a trend of worsening floods.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The wave of net zero goals and commitments has rapidly increased since October 2018, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that in order to have a 50 per cent chance of keeping global warming below 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 13, 2021

Both cases argue that inaction by governments when it comes to limiting dangerous global warming risks basic rights such as health and life. The European Court of Human Rights’ approach contrasts with that of the EU Court of Justice, which is responsible for interpreting and upholding EU law.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

WWF stressed that more concerted climate action would be needed from the private sector to chart a pathway where global emissions are halved by the end of this decade - a goal experts have warned must be met to prevent dangerous levels of global warming. pathway.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

As such, it warned that increasing the number of LGN trucks on the roads could lead to an increase in global warming in the short term, owing to the 20-year global warming impact of methane gas, and that policymakers should instead focus on ramping up the use of genuinely zero emissions trucks as replacements for diesel models.

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