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Will the International Shipping Industry Finally Set a Climate Target?

Will the International Shipping Industry Finally Set a Climate Target? Climate change featured heavily at the opening of the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) annual marine environment protection meeting in London today. IMO Secretary General Kitack Lim called the Paris climate agreement a “landmark achievement” and said that the organisation – which sets shipping regulations, including environmental […]

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Tackle Climate Change Now or Risk 720 Million People Sliding Back Into Extreme Poverty Report Warns

Tackle Climate Change Now or Risk 720 Million People Sliding Back Into Extreme Poverty Report Warns An astonishing 720 million people around the world face falling back into extreme poverty unless we tackle climate change immediately, warns a new report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). The report was published as world leaders gathered this week at […]

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How Fracking Changed the Economics of Oil Production Around the World

How Fracking Changed the Economics of Oil Production Around the World James Meadway, chief economist at the New Economics Foundation, explains the interrelated economics behind China’s ‘Black Monday’ stock market crash, Middle Eastern oil and US fracking. The ‘fracking revolution’ has transformed the economics of oil production globally, with the US becoming a bigger producer than Saudi Arabia and […]

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Secret Papers Reveal Lawson’s 1981 Plot to Use Army Against Oil Workers

Secret Papers Reveal Lawson’s 1981 Plot to Use Army Against Oil Workers Lord Lawson asserts that his attack on climate change policy is motivated by deep concerns for the working classes – fears environmental measures will cost jobs and undermine prosperity. Environmentalists claim that Lawson is acting in the interests of the oil industry even if […]

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David Cameron’s New Definition of Fracking ‘Political Not Scientific’

David Cameron’s New Definition of Fracking ‘Political Not Scientific’ Last week, DeSmog UK revealed how David Cameron’s government snuck a new definition of fracking onto the statute books. Kyla Mandel investigates where this definition actually came from. The definition of hydraulic fracturing adopted by theUK coalition government has all the hallmarks of industry influence, finds DeSmog UK. The fracking definition was slipped into […]

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Osborne Dines Former Chancellors, See the Menu They Fought to Keep Secret for Half a Decade

Osborne Dines Former Chancellors, See the Menu They Fought to Keep Secret for Half a Decade   Just before Christmas, back in December 2010, the chancellor George Osborne (pictured) sat down to a sumptuous lunch with his successors, including Lord Lawson of the climate denial charity the Global Warming Policy Foundation. At the time, Lawson was […]

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