The Dubai-based Legatum Group funds multiple organisations that have advocated against climate action.

This week two cabinet ministers met with motoring campaigner and net zero critic Howard Cox, Reform UK’s candidate for London Mayor.

Michael Hintze, one of the early backers of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, also donated to Environment Secretary Steve Barclay in 2023.

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The group, which reportedly has UAE state backing, is leading the race to buy the British newspaper.

The influential newspaper featured ten opinion writers with links to the UK’s main climate science denial group.

A new investigation illuminates the gas industry’s 50-year PR campaign weaponizing science to promote doubt over the health effects of gas stoves and obstruct regulation.

The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London – which closed at the O2 Arena – saw speakers contradict climate science and attack green policies.

The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, run by the owners of GB News, is hosting an event next week that it claims will be attended by 100 parliamentarians from across the world.