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Global CO2 emissions to grow less than 1% this year thanks to renewables- IEA

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are expected to rise by just under 1% this year, as the expansion of renewables and electric vehicles outweighed coal demand, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.

Reuters · Oct 19, 2022

What is 55 Tufton Street? The house that ‘crashed’ the UK economy

Westminister home of conservative think-tanks targeted by Led By Donkeys over failure of ‘Trussonomics’

The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022

Tim Winton urges Fremantle Dockers to drop Woodside Energy sponsorship

Group of fans including former WA premier Carmen Lawrence say having fossil fuel company as major sponsor is ‘no longer appropriate’

The Guardian - AU · Oct 18, 2022

Beetaloo Basin holds ‘Australia’s greatest emissions reduction opportunity’, inquiry hears

In remarks dismissed by environmentalists, gas company boss Joel Riddle said reserves were ‘critical’ to lowering greenhouse gas emissions

The Guardian - AU · Oct 10, 2022

The BBC must take away the rightwing thinktanks’ megaphone

Letters: The reality of these organisations’ ideology – and its US origins – must be clearly exposed, writes Paul Clarke. Plus letters from Rev David Haslam, John Figliozzi and Martin Kerridge

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2022

Revealed: rightwing ‘slash and burn’ ideas that could be blueprint for Truss

Exclusive: Free Market Forum suggests scrapping free childcare hours and abolishing corporation tax

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2022

‘Reckless’ coal firms plan climate-busting expansion, study finds

Coal is the most polluting of all fossil fuels and investors must stop funding it, say campaigners

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2022

Rightwing thinktanks run this government. But first, they had to capture the BBC

Why are representatives of these shadily funded groups treated as impartial observers on news programmes? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2022

Sunakites to culture warriors: Tory tribes go to war in Birmingham

Conference fractures into intersecting groups whose members are united on issues from low tax to ‘woke’ students

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2022

Kwarteng IEA fringe event hints at how deeply thinktank is embedded in No 10

Key figures at rightwing thinktank have close links to Liz Truss and several alumni are now on her staff

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2022