Adam Barnett is DeSmog’s UK News Reporter. He is a former Staff Writer at Left Foot Forward and BBC Local Democracy Reporter.
The Conservative leader, who attacked “radical green absolutism” in a Washington DC speech, recently met with a host of influential anti-climate figures.
Campaigners warn that the UK will face “pressure from American fossil fuel interests” to slow its energy transition.
Victoria Hewson called the 2050 ambition a “huge own goal” while working for a Tufton Street think tank.
Jeremy Clarkson spreads well-worn conspiracy theory that casts inheritance farm tax policy as plot to “replace farmers with migrants”.
The Climate Policy Institute attending the UN summit was founded by a state-backed think tank which has received fossil fuel funding.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint proposes sweeping anti-climate policies.
The new leader of the opposition has regularly criticised the UK’s green ambitions.
The Tory leadership candidate has welcomed the support of a group that claims “there is no greenhouse effect”.
Experts accuse Farage’s party of a ‘deliberate campaign of misinformation about climate change’ in the House of Commons.
The final two Conservative candidates have worrying records on green issues.
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