DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hintze, a Conservative peer and hedge fund manager, was one of the early funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , founded by the late Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson. Steve has never discussed environmental policy with him. Steve is fully committed to the government’s net zero aims.”

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

World leaders aren’t doing enough to address pollution at its source, leaving nearly 9 million people each year to die from its effects. That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. named for their diameter of just 2.5

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

Anderson has repeatedly attacked the government’s net zero policies, arguing in February 2024 that a net zero UK “wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference to the earth’s atmosphere”. He has suggested that coal, the most polluting fossil fuel, is environmentally sustainable because “coal 100 million years ago was trees and plants”.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Just 13 financial players out of hundreds assessed from around the world have restrictions in place against funding oil and gas industry expansion, according to the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker. It will only further feed the scourge of war, pollution & climate catastrophe. And there is precedent.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The private sector cannot address the full range of impacts from climate change without strong public policy designed to help stabilize the climate. Companies therefore have a responsibility to their investors to encourage climate-friendly government policies, the letter emphasises.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 31, 2022

The post Australia Invests in New Policies to Achieve Zero-Emissions by 2050 appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car News, New York, California, Florida, Missouri, Texas, Nevada.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Solar panels alone generate more electricity globally than the entire US power sector does today. That’s the picture the International Energy Agency (IEA) paints in the World Energy Outlook it published today, which is based on governments’ current energy policies. degrees of global warming this century.

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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”. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cited it when watering-down some net zero policies in September. The party is polling around ten percent.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

It’s part of their systematic attempt to influence the climate policy discussion,” Chris Russill, a Carleton University journalism professor and academic director of the climate communication centre Re:Climate, told DeSmog. Voters interested in climate policy,” Russill said. People search for this stuff for a variety of reasons.

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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. Pearson has claimed that green policies will cause “life as we know it” to “[return] to the pre-industrial age”.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Students for Liberty also received a one-off donation of $10,000 from the Cato Institute , a US-based libertarian think tank that has received millions in funding from Koch sources and has downplayed the severity of global warming. The warnings were repeated in an article from the group’s public policy analyst in 2023.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

With problems like global warming and pollution becoming a bigger threat with every passing day, sustainability is the need of the hour. They’ve also got a special demand management program created for production units that offer rewards to these production units for adopting sustainable energy policies. Recycle Coach.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The findings offer new insight into corporate actors’ responsibility for the climate impact of worsening wildfires and strengthen the rapidly growing scientific field known as attribution science , which quantifies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events and connects pollution sources to observed climate impacts.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

But many are stopping short of a commitment to no longer use the fossil fuels causing global warming — particularly those that stand to lose business from such a pact. That’s why they’re asking heads of state to set policies that hasten the deployment of renewable energy. degrees Celsius higher than the preindustrial era.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

These affect natural habitats, produces acid rain and destroys the ozone layer because of global warming. Moreover, poor methods of managing waste lead to an increase in soil and water contamination and air pollution. Lessens Environmental Pollution. Most of them release wastewater causing water pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. Truss writes that current environmental policies should be scrapped in favour of a “free market” approach. The book also spreads false claims about climate policies.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

Susan Hall, the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, has opposed key climate policies, backed the reintroduction of fracking and promoted articles online which spread climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. They said that Hall supports the UK’s net zero target and does not disagree with the IPCC about human-caused global warming.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

When all human emissions are accounted for (dashed line) there’s a temporary bump as the particulate pollution drops out of the skies, and then gradual cooling as shorter-lived greenhouse gases like methane and nitrogen oxide get reabsorbed. Different emissions can either warm or cool the planet. Nature Climate Change).

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 16, 2024

Instead, the most common lies about climate change now have to do with denying the benefits of clean energy, attacking policies meant to slash planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels, and maligning scientists and advocates that push for change.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott , a director of the UK’s principal climate science denial group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), has been reappointed by the government as an adviser to the prestigious Board of Trade. The GWPF has gained a number of high profile directors over the last year.

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2022

According to a new report by InfluenceMap , as it stands now, major automakers will fail to meet the necessary goals to keep global warming below 1.5 The report noted that most companies tend to advocate for better climate policy in direct proportion to their future EV production goals. degree level. will be EVs by that date.

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Grist

MARCH 28, 2024

At more than half of the hundreds of garbage dumps surveyed — in the largest assessment yet of such emissions — most of the pollution flowed from leaks, creating concentrated plumes. This upcoming August, the EPA is expected to update its landfill management policies as part of a required 8-year review cycle.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

In addition to the added climate risk of a new pipeline exporting Canadian oil, with an anticipated drop in the global demand for oil, the project remains a substantial financial risk —one of the reasons Kinder Morgan abandoned it in the first place. The pipeline has been called a ‘global warming machine.’

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 19, 2021

million new solar jobs and reducing energy bills by $69 billion, the report found that enacting the 30 Million Solar Homes policies would over five years: Eliminate global warming air pollution equivalent to closing 48 coal-burning power plants or taking 42 million cars off the road for a year. In addition to creating 1.77

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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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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

. | Photo by Costfoto / NurPhoto via Getty Images Governments and utilities need to add or replace the equivalent of virtually all the world’s power grids by 2040 to reliably keep the lights on while cleaning up pollution from the power sector. Of course, there are other major challenges to overcome to reach global climate goals.

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Rinexii

MARCH 7, 2020

If the National Environmental Policy Act is rolled back, that’s what we will see. National Environmental Policy Act Fresh air, clean water, and conservation of our natural resources are some of the biggest perks of living in our nation. If the National Environmental Policy Act is rolled back, that’s what we will see.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

C present-day global warming relative to pre-industrial times. Due to its climate and indirect health impacts (methane is a precursor for ozone which is an air pollutant that damages human health and crops), methane mitigation has recently become a global policy priority.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Almost 100 universities that have pledged to shed ties to the fossil fuel industry still bank with financial institutions that have collectively provided $419 billion (£345 billion) to polluting interests between 2016 and 2022. The latter emits up to three times more global warming pollution than producing the same quantity of crude oil.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

This net zero scepticism has quickly entered the upper echelons of Westminster politics, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that policies to achieve the UK’s legally binding climate targets shouldn’t “hassle” households and should be “proportionate and pragmatic”. The NZSG has extensive ties to the GWPF.

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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. The GWPF updated its register later the next day. Record of Climate Denial.

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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 conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Document 1: 1959.

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

She is the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newly updated policy statement on climate change, which appeared earlier this year. The new policy statement’s number one recommendation is that its members “incorporate climate change counseling into clinical practice.” Dr. Ahdoot made good on that vow.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“I completely agree that Canada’s tax credit for carbon capture and storage is a subsidy to the oil and gas industry,” Jason MacLean, an adjunct professor who studies climate policy at the University of Saskatchewan, told DeSmog in an email. Policymakers previously estimated the value of these investment tax credits to be $10 billion.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

The newest publication is an attempt to distill everything the panel has said since August 2021, when it began releasing its sixth assessment of global warming. There’s no new research in this latest report, but it injects new urgency into scientists’ and activists’ calls for rapid, systemic action from global decision-makers.

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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. The GWPF has criticised both the policies adopted by governments to address climate change, and the science underpinning these policies.

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