What is the Heartland Institute? Inside the climate denial group Nigel Farage has links to
Nigel Farage and Liz Truss were at the UK launch of a US-based climate change denying lobbying group in December.
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Nigel Farage and Liz Truss attend launch of climate denial group
The Heartland Institute is a US based lobby group which has previously made extreme statements sceptical of climate change.
Plastics industry used disinformation to lobby against ban on ‘forever chemicals’
The estimated cost of cleaning up ‘forever chemical’ pollution in the UK and Europe will be £1.6 trillion over 20 years
World’s richest 1% burn through their fair share of annual carbon budget in just 10 days
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ two private jets spent nearly 25 days in the air over a 12-month period
Wera Hobhouse MP: Why Decarbonising Heat Must Be At The Heart Of Our Net Zero Strategy
Heat generation accounts for a staggering 37% of the UK’s carbon emissions—yet it is not explicitly supported in GBE’s legislative mandate.
How the right lost interest in climate change
As right-wing populist movements gain ground, we’re witnessing a deliberate undermining of climate science and policy at a time when extreme weather events, such as floods that claimed hundreds of lives in Spain and hurricanes that ravaged communities in Florida, confirm the need for urgent and bold action.
Right-wing media in uproar over peaceful demonstration urging Sadler’s Wells to cut ties with Barclays
‘Sadler’s Wells must choose: uphold the values of art and humanity, or remain complicit in the destruction and greed that threatens us all.’
Keir Starmer’s ‘plan for change’ won’t deliver the climate adaptation we need
The government definitely needed a reset. But it missed a crucial mission.
Over three-quarters of UK universities exclude investments in fossil fuel companies
‘115 (out of 149) UK universities have now publicly committed to divest from fossil fuels, representing 77% of the UK Higher Education sector’
March for Climate Justice: Activists rally against fossil fuels and war profiteering as COP29 gets underway
‘The same fossil fuel corporations driving the climate crisis and blocking a just transition are those funnelling Israel the oil it needs for its war machine: all to secure their profits.’