Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Energy and investment experts have warned that only concrete policy action from governments can prevent huge economic disruption should the 'carbon bubble' burst as economies shift away from fossil fuels in the coming years. You can still sign up now for a pass to this week's Net Zero Festival here.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

CT Group was founded by political consultant and lobbyist Lynton Crosby in 2002. Hiring CT Group appears to be the latest attempt by the Legatum Group to expand its political influence. This raises a number of interesting political questions.” global warming target established by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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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. With current policies putting the world on. People around the world are already witnessing epic heat waves, wildfires and drought at 1.1

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Freund said that it was important for policymakers to interact with lobbyists in “any healthy democracy”, but that “wherever there could be an influence of money on politics, the bare minimum is to make it transparent and give voters the possibility to hold decision makers accountable.”

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2019

2015, 195 countries adopted an international treaty aiming to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsiuc (3.6 This article originally appeared on Ensia.In degrees Fahrenheit) above average preindustrial temperatures in order to avert the worst of Earth’s climate emergency.

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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.

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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’. Two other members of the NZSG, including former Brexit minister Steve Baker , also have connections to the GWPF.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

And today, UK and US researchers at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), have sought to deliver some sobering, if not wholly surprising, answers to these critical questions. per cent loss in GDP under current policies. per cent of GDP.

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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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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

Last week Wood Mackenzie released an analysis – A delayed energy transition – on the implications of a five-year delay to the energy transition, both on CAPEX spending across segments as well as on the penetration of global warming. The timing of Wood Mackenzie’s analysis is apt.

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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. warming pathway.

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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. Resources: UCB Goldman School of Public Policy : The 2035 Report. Yale Program on Climate Comm : Politics and Global Warming April 2020.

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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

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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 22, 2021

Biden and the future of clean energy politics. The theory goes that in order to rapidly deploy clean energy, you need three elements: technology; policy; and finance. The only missing piece, before this week, has been policy. . The political sea change is larger than the whims of a single politician. Sarah Golden.

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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.” million in funding from the Charles G.

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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

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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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 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? The first report on global warming that was handed 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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. They straddle climate change, the role of biomass energy, greenhouse gas emissions from different oil feedstocks, policies towards slashing emissions in transport, buildings and infrastructure, and the interactions between climate change and human health.

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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

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

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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GreenBiz

APRIL 13, 2021

Public equity asset managers drive what kinds of companies are valuable and thus have the capital to grow, to what industries retirement savings flow by default and what companies can achieve a scale that affords them outsized political and policy influence. Needless to say, investment managers and financial advisers are powerful.

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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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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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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

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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is picking up pace. They straddle climate change, the role of biomass energy, greenhouse gas emissions from different oil feedstocks, policies towards slashing emissions in transport, buildings and infrastructure, and the interactions between climate change and human health.

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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

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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