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The Climate Group
About: The Climate Group’s website makes it clear that they aim to influence the policy
response to potential global warming from carbon burning fuels. Their website states:
“The Climate Group is working with the world’s most influential business
and government leaders to make clean technologies commercially viable.
These people hold the power to create the financial mechanisms and
policy incentives that are needed to rapidly end our dependency on dirty
energy and create a clean industrial revolution.
A ‘Clean Revolution’ – a swift and massive scaling-up of clean technologies
such as LEDs, Evs, ICT, CCS and Solar – will help create economic growth,
jobs and secure a cleaner, smarter, better, more prosperous future for
all.”
Environmentalist Campaigning: “Breaking the Climate Deadlock” is a joint initiative
from the Tony Blair and the Climate Group. Launched in March 2008, its objective is to
help build support for an ambitious new global climate deal in Copenhagen in December
2009 and its subsequent implementation. The project is described as:
“Combining the high-level advocacy of Mr Blair, with a suite of expert
reports, briefing papers and public engagement activities, the initiative has
highlighted how a fair and effective global deal can be build and the
benefits that it would provide.”
British Funding
The large amount of funding in their accounts for 2008-09 suggests that the Freedom
of Information requests used to find the amount paid in 2009-10 may not have found
all the taxpayer funding the Climate Group received.
Source Funding, £, 2008-09 Funding, £, 2009-10
Various government grants 614,261
Foreign and Commonwealth
143,217
Office
Environment Agency 1,545
Total 614,261 144,762
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