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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

Charity Commission reviews complaint against climate sceptic thinktank

GWPF HQ in Tufton Street, London
The London headquarters of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, at 55 Tufton Street, which is also home to a number of other rightwing ‘thinktanks’. Photograph: James Veysey/Rex/Shutterstock

The Charity Commission has confirmed that it is reviewing a complaint about the Global Warming Policy Foundation after lawyers and MPs formally raised concerns about its charitable status.

GWPF exists to question policy around the climate crisis, and was set up by former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson, who has said that climate change is not a threat, but “happening very gently at a fraction of a degree per decade, which is something we can perfectly well live with”.

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