Adam Barnett is DeSmog’s UK News Reporter. He is a former Staff Writer at Left Foot Forward and BBC Local Democracy Reporter.
DCI Groupโs 2024 clients include the American Petroleum Institute, which has a history of undermining the scientific consensus on climate change.
Labourโs new ambassador to the U.S. founded Global Counsel, a firm with major fossil fuel clients.
Politicians, donors, think tanks, and media outlets in the UK and U.S. are working increasingly closely to scupper climate policies and promote fossil fuel extraction.
Claire Coutinho endorsed several figures linked to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a group that questions established climate science.
Lord Frost is one of several departures from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which has links to Tory leader Kemi Badenoch.
The Conservative leader, who attacked โradical green absolutismโ in a Washington DC speech, recently met with a host of influential anti-climate figures.
Campaigners warn that the UK will face โpressure from American fossil fuel interestsโ to slow its energy transition.
Victoria Hewson called the 2050 ambition a โhuge own goalโ while working for a Tufton Street think tank.
Jeremy Clarkson spreads well-worn conspiracy theory that casts inheritance farm tax policy as plot to โreplace farmers with migrantsโ.
The Climate Policy Institute attending the UN summit was founded by a state-backed think tank which has received fossil fuel funding.
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