New study finds cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net zero will save significant damage to the UK economy.
… New study finds cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net zero will save … are stronger reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions. This is the "stark warming" …
Margaret Thatcher was the first world leader to put climate change at the top of the agenda. Lord Lawson, her chancellor then, is now a mouthpiece for climate denial. So how does he explain her political support for the scientific consensus? BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
… Margaret Thatcher Climate Debate North Sea Gas United Nations Summit Sir Crispin Tickell … justify her use of newly discovered North Sea gas to shut down most of the country's mining … how it worked, the importance of greenhouse gases, and what the temperature of the planet …
Campaigners carrying giant whale demand UK Government rejects ‘marine-wrecking’ Rosebank oil field plans.
… Rosebank is the biggest undeveloped oil and gas field in the North Sea. Fossil fuel giant … and sold overseas. Burning Rosebank’s oil and gas would create more CO2 than the combined …
The British Museum has just opened its latest BP-sponsored exhibition - The World of Stonehenge - despite widespread anger that oil is still polluting culture.
… sponsorship deal with the oil and gas giant BP despite huge opposition to the … would give further legitimacy to an oil and gas company that has made a massive …
Gary Hume and 77 leading artists argued BP representative must be removed from judging panel because of company's failure to address climate breakdown.
… BP is seen as being at odds with that aim.” Gas Prior to its closure in response to the … BP’s investments still remain in oil and gas extraction. Sponsorship The company’s much …
Coal companies and their 'sceptic' shills have almost given up on denying climate change, writes Brendan Montague. The new message is that coal is essential ... to end world poverty! And those who advocate climate action are 'harsh, cold-hearted' beasts. The one thing that hasn't changed? It's all lies.
… to provide cover for the coal, oil and gas industry have already been refined. The … if other countries joined the coal, oil and gas bonanza, they too could enjoy flat-screen … and force up prices. The history of coal and gas is violent, shameless, dishonest and …
China is on track to meet its ultra-low emissions goals for 2020.
… analysed emissions from coal, oil, natural gas and biomass power plants, with a focus on … power plants combusting coal, oil, natural gas and biomass are one of the major …
Stop polluting politics: activists hang a banner off Westminster Bridge vowing to challenge MPs who take oil money.
… recently handed out over 100 new oil and gas licences and proposed compulsory annual … heatwaves every summer, while rising oil and gas prices have increased fuel poverty in the …
Tougher rules on fossil fuel investments could help avert economic disaster.
… represent one of the four biggest oil and gas insurers in the world. This cash and cover … and start restricting the exploitation of gas, oil and coal reserves. If those fossil …
Lord Lawson's think tank became a beacon of light around which the industries most affected by the new Kyoto Protocol met to discuss strategies to deal with the international agreement
… the chief executive of Shell International Gas, Dr Mohammad Al-Sabban, the senior … somewhat surprisingly that Kyoto meant that “gas is the fuel for the 21st century”. Knapp … to the expansion in manmade greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in Europe.” Knapp …
A leading member of the climate change-skeptic Global Warming Policy Foundation has resigned from his post in the wake of a Greenpeace investigation that exposed its phoney 'peer review' process. But he insists: 'nothing going on here!'
… apparently being sold out to an oil and gas man. Dr Benny Peiser, the former part-time … council - posing as a Middle East oil and gas company representative. During the …
Today marks the launch of World Meat Free Week where 200 million people globally will be asked to skip just one meaty meal. The impacts on climate change and the environment will be significant. And some people may even try new, delicious vegan food, writes BRENDAN MONTAGUE
… for 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than all emissions from … person can: · Save greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to enough electricity …
Fair taxes on the UK’s biggest polluters could have raised up to £23bn last year to combat the climate crisis – Oxfam
… has announced it intends to grow its natural gas business, while BP has weakened commitments to reduce oil and gas output. The paper calls for the … they pay against investment in new oil and gas projects. The report calculates that a …
MP pension fund now supports renewables but remains heavily invested in Shell and BP, annual report shows.
… MPs urging the fund to divest from oil and gas companies due to accelerating climate … risks to people’s pensions as coal, oil and gas risk becoming ‘stranded assets’ as …
The Food Waste Index Report 2021 looks at food waste that occurs in retail outlets, restaurants and homes.
… and 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are associated with food that is … “Reducing food waste would cut greenhouse gas emissions, slow the destruction of nature …
Welsh Assembly Member pension scheme moves away from fossil fuels.
… see the scheme’s investments in the oil and gas sector fall by around 30 percent to … the scheme’s investments in the oil and gas sector to zero over a five year period …
Theresa Villiers backed fracking, but calls for action on climate change and spoke out against Heathrow expansion.
… as an MP she has voted against a ban on shale gas exportation and has appeared to downplay … setting a target for the amount of greenhouse gas produced by the UK - significant because …
New data from Fossil Free UK reveals the shocking extent of investment in fossil fuels by UK council pension funds despite the risks. BRENDAN MONTAGUE explores the changes that need to be made in order to avoid climate catastrophe.
… into companies that extract coal, oil and gas, fueling dangerous climate change, … funds should pull their cash out of coal, gas and oil and invest in the new technologies …
Peter Lilley MP was among just five Parliamentarians to vote against the Climate Change Act in the Commons in 2008. Here's why.
… And it woke the slumbering coal, oil and gas monopolies around the world to the danger … conspired to continue a drastic increase in gas prices for families and businesses – just … to sell off the fattened goose of British Gas to the City of London. A few years later, …
Fakenomcis: Lord Browne took to the podium at Stanford University on 19 May 1997 and called for oil companies to face the challenge of climate change - more than two decades ago.
… “A sceptic may have wondered why an oil and gas company executive would take such an … opposed immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—and drove a permanent wedge … allocate all the resources away from oil and gas – we would never in a million years.” BP …
Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber 'must quit as chief executive of oil company before taking on presidency of COP28'.
… is no more atmospheric space for any new oil, gas or coal. This policy clarity echoes the … a coal fired plant under construction to gas; a deal valued at $100bn with the US … in 2025. Then there is the issue of the gas that would previously have been burned to …
Books from campaigner Jonathan Neale, economist Ann Pettifor and activist Chris Saltmarsh chart a course for effective climate policy.
… only increases. The amount of coal, oil and gas burned has dramatically increased as world … year for just three years to replace their gas boilers as its flagship policy is an …
Lord Lawson was invited onto the BBC Radio 4 Today programme to debate the risk of climate change. Scientists, former BBC journalists and politicians have all questioned the wisdom of this decision. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
… the agenda, including the fact coal, oil and gas companies have for decades paid public … who may or may not have shares in oil and gas . The Guardian also named Michael Hintze, …