Climate sceptic thinktank received funding from fossil fuel interests

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  1. >4 May 2022, 11.00am. openDemocracy:
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    > [*Net Zero Watch says it won’t take cash from fossil fuel investors – but we discovered a funder with millions in oil*](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/global-warming-policy-foundation-net-zero-watch-koch-brothers/)
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    >An influential Tory-linked lobby group leading the backlash against the UK government’s net zero policy has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from an oil-rich foundation with huge investments in energy firms, openDemocracy can reveal.
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    >The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which also campaigns as Net Zero Watch, has also received more than half a million dollars through a fund linked to the controversial billionaire Koch brothers. …

  2. Meanwhile anti-fracking groups received money from Russia in order to increase Europe’s reliance on Russian gas!

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/19/russia-secretly-working-with-environmentalists-to-oppose-fracking

    Edit to add: Downvotes because it doesn’t fit your narrative? Russia has long funded these groups, during the Soviet era it was anti-nuclear groups knowing that increased reliance on hydrocarbons increased our supply chain fragility in the event of a conflict.

  3. Wonder how much Russian money was involved?

    Guess where Global Warming Policy Foundation is run from?

    Yes, that’s right 55 Tufton Street, alongside various other iffy organisations.

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