Net Zero Watch
Net Zero Watch is a UK advocacy group which aim is to "discuss the serious implications of expensive and poorly considered climate change policies."[1] The group previously published information casting doubt on the science of climate change under the name of the Global Warming Policy Forum.
The group's listed address is 55 Tufton Street, where the Global Warming Policy Foundation and a number of other right wing campaign groups are also headquartered.[2][3] According to anti-climate-change-misinformation website DeSmog, the group's website says "that it was set up and is managed by the Global Warming Policy Forum, the campaigning wing of the Foundation, which has rejected mainstream climate science and green measures for over a decade, recently calling for the upcoming COP26 UN climate summit to be cancelled."[4] Board members of Net Zero Watch include the Global Warming Policy Foundation's founder Nigel Lawson and Benny Peiser. The rebrand was criticised by climate change experts from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit and Greenpeace.[4]
The rebrand also comes at the same time as Craig Mackinlay MP and Steve Baker MP launched a similarly named group within Parliament, the Net Zero Scrutiny Group, which also plans to campaign against the cost or green energy transitions.[5][6]
According to Politico, Peiser has said that "dozens" of MPs had contacted him about the Net Zero Watch campaign.[7]
References
- ^ "Who We Are". netzerowatch.com. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ "Topics - Net Zero Watch". www.netzerowatch.com. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
- ^ Mandel, Kyla. "55 Tufton Street". DeSmog. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
- ^ a b Barnett, Adam (2021-10-11). "Climate Science Denial Group Rebrands as 'Net Zero Watch'". DeSmog. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
- ^ "Climate change denier group rebrands as Net Zero Watch". www.endsreport.com. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
- ^ "Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 12 October 2021". The Week UK. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
- ^ "UK's climate science deniers rebrand". POLITICO. 2021-10-11. Retrieved 2021-10-12.