Wealthy British financier Sir Christopher Hohn’s multimillion-pound donations to climate campaigns, particularly supporting low-emission zones, come under scrutiny in a report questioning the transparency of funding behind climate policies. The Telegraph has more.
One of Britain’s wealthiest men has been bankrolling the campaign for low-emission zones and has made a £46 million donation to a climate network chaired by Sadiq Khan, the Telegraph can reveal.
Sir Christopher Hohn, a financier whose investments include a stake in the owner of Heathrow Airport, has donated more than £670 million to climate campaigns via his philanthropic fund in less than a decade.
He is one of a handful of billionaires ploughing money into civil society organisations that lobby local and national governments to enact Net Zero or clean-air policies.
Sir Christopher and Michael Bloomberg, a former New York mayor, are “strategic funders” of C40 cities, a global network of nearly 100 mayors of the world’s leading cities who are united in action to confront the climate crisis.
Mr. Khan, the London Mayor and chairman of the group, which has called for people to eat less meat, give up their private cars and take only one flight every three years.
Since 2013, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), co-founded and chaired by Sir Christopher, has given nearly $57million in grants to C40 cities, and Mr. Bloomberg has donated $45 million to the organisation that he used to chair.
The London Mayor has been the C40 cities chairman since 2021, and a source at City Hall said that its more radical proposals were made before he was in post and were not targets.
CIFF is also a major funder of the Clean Air Fund and has donated more than £17 million to it. The lobby group claims on its website that it “drove the creation or expansion of eight Clean Air Zones (CAZ) in Bath, Brighton, Portsmouth and the London Ultra Low Emission Zone – with the potential to save millions of lives.” …
The funding details are revealed in a report on the Clean Air campaign, seen by the Telegraph, which calls for the public to be included in debates about radical policies.
Its authors, from Together and Climate Debate U.K., say not enough is known about the funding behind organisations pushing through policies that have a major impact on people’s lives. Their report alleges that “undue proximity between billionaires and the centre of political power” excludes the public from conversations.
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“If there should be a trough there will be pigs.” Pushkin.
Every species and variant of pig is feeding at the trough. All of the subsidy farmers sucking the taxpayer dry all under the guises of a climate crisis for which not a jot of science supports. It is quite remarkable how people don’t believe a word that comes from government on every other issue but on climate they swallow it all down because they have been convinced that it is all about science. (Except Daily Sceptic subscribers that is) —————-Nope, it isn’t about science. Computer Modelling is NOT science and they are not evidence of anything. Isn’t that really lucky for all the PIGS?
And the Electoral Commission will see nothing toi look into; all in order, please go away.
Chris Hohn is simply human hating evil made flesh. Greedy, immoral and with utter contempt for human life.
There urgently needs to be a safeguard mechanism that ensures that loads of cash can’t buy policy. With his portfolio of investments in the airports sector, I very much doubt he’s a fervent supporter of the issues he pumps money into. It is not democratic. I couldn’t give two hoots who this guy is but he doesn’t impress me one little bit with his knighthood and bags of loot. What I would like to know is whether HE is going to give up frequent flying, his cars, his eating of meat and so on. If not, then he’s a bloody hypocrite and a complete sh*t.
I was engaged in conversation with someone pushing ULEZ and CAZ this week, as they ‘save millions of lives’. I asked how. I was told by reducing asthma. So a few seconds research shows that there are about 1,200 deaths p.a. directly attributed to asthma in the UK, which means it isn’t a top 10 killer (2% of deaths). About 8% of people have asthma in the UK. Curiously when I looked at the stats for India, with smog and wood/coal heating in indoor open fires, I noticed that asthma is presented by 3% of the population.
Incidentally asthma deaths in the UK are running less than a third of the ‘unexplained’ excess deaths. No-one seems to care about those though…
If ULEZs and CAZs reduce asthma deaths then they’ll save millions of lives. It’s just that it will take thousands of years to achieve this.
Excess, at least 15,000 per year and rising every year…
Brandon Smith gets into the 15 minute city climate agenda in his recent article.
”When that doesn’t work and the citizenry remains skeptical, the tyrants go on the attack, accusing the public of “conspiracy theory.” This is meant to mock and shame free thinkers into silence – You don’t want to stand out, right? Why risk being ostracized from society? Why risk becoming a meme?
This tactic is rooted in the notion that the corporate media and government officials represent the mainstream, and therefore they represent the majority, and the majority represents reality. None of this is true or relevant, of course. Only facts matter. Sophistry is meaningless. Opinions are meaningless. The truth should be the goal, and if it’s not someone’s goal then they must be a purveyor of lies and should not be taken seriously. There are only two paths to take, there is no in-between.
I will admit there is some value to the “conspiracy theory” accusation because whenever the establishment uses it, it’s a sure sign that you are too close to the target and they are getting nervous. They could simply try to outline any evidence they might have to prove that your position is wrong, but they don’t really do that. Instead of debating your arguments and evidence, they try to undermine you as a valid critic and inoculate the public against your ideas before people ever get a chance to hear them. This is the behavior of villains, not benevolent and caring leaders.
I mention this dynamic because there is one agenda above all others that is aggressively defended by the establishment media, and anyone who remotely questions it is automatically persecuted as a “conspiracy nut” or “denier.” I am of course talking about the climate change agenda.
I have thoroughly debunked the idea of man-made climate change in previous articles and I won’t be spending time on that here.”
https://alt-market.us/the-globalist-vision-15-minute-prison-cities-and-the-end-of-private-property/
“I believe one of the most important aspects of Agenda 2030 for globalists is something called the “15 Minute City”; a project which involves hundreds of city mayors from across the US, Europe and Asia working closely with groups like the World Economic Forum. Any mention of this idea in a negative light and the media erupts with anger as well as mockery as if it’s not a real issue worthy of debate.
The establishment paints an interesting picture of 15 Minute Cities – A Utopian future in which everything you need is only a short walk away and private transportation is superfluous (or banned). You might even live in mega-complex, much like a giant mall where you also work. You could spend months within one square mile of space, never having to leave for anything.”
My standard response nowadays on the odd occasion that I am labelled a “conspiracy theorist” is “No. I am a conspiracy realist.”
I / we have been proven correct on just about all the propoganda pushed as facts these last three plus years that our debunking of whatever is spewed out of MSM is inevitably proved correct and sooner rather than later.
Or as Dr Robberts said….Collusion theorist.
Maybe you prefer being labelled a “conspiracy theorist” which is 100 times better than being called a brainwashed dreamer. And there are millions of them around that are happy to get their information from the BBC and the Climate Show on SKY. They like to be part of the herd that Douglass Murray writes about. It makes them feel more comfortable not challenging or questioning anything, but ofcourse it something is supposed to be about science then that is what you are supposed to do ——-question everything. —-Well at least you and I can in no way be classed as brainwashed dreamers.
“Conspiracy Theory” —-Except the conspiracy is on us. The UN and WEF conspiracy to impoverish the western world because we had allegedly used up more than our fair share of the fossil fuels in the ground and we are to be fobbed of with unreliable and expensive renewables and if we complain we are told to get more insulation and put on 3 jumpers. Notice the very first thing Biden and the Eco Parasite Democrats did when he got elected was to shut down the Keystone Pipeline. ———He who controls energy controls the people. Al human activity emits some CO2 so what better way to control all human activity than by controlling the CO2 with carbon taxes, regulations and mandates all with the climate crisis as the excuse. ——-The greatest pseudo scientific fraud ever. Eco Socialism is where the conspiracy is, not with people questioning the eco socialism.
A complete headbanger; certified space cadet.
‘Hohn built his wealth in large part by exploiting fossil fuels and natural resources
As late as 2012, nearly half of the assets under management in TCI—a total of about $4 billion—were invested in utilities, mainly fossil fuel producers.
In 2012, TCI acquired a 1% stake, worth about $414 million, in Coal India Ltd., an Indian state-controlled mining and refinery company. The firm produces more than 80% of India’s coal. TCI acquired the stake via two subsidiaries based in tax shelters—TCI Cyprus Holdings and Ireland-based Talos Capital.
….despite Hohn’s political engagement, his fund is opaque, with at least nine different subsidiaries, such as TCI Fund Holdings Ltd. and TCI Advisory Services LLP.
Connecticut-based Game Change Capital LLC, incorporated by the foundation (the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, a hybrid charity/hedge fund Hohn founded and operates) in Delaware in 2011, is a private equity firm focused almost solely on acquiring positions in renewable energy firms.
Hohn also owns the unregulated Cayman Islands-based Children’s Investment Fund Management Ltd.
That entity is the parent hedge fund of TCI, according to international regulatory disclosures.’
Jeff Patch, Real Clear Investigations
So a complete madman funding another madman who runs London.
What could possibly go wrong?
The problem is people like Hohn are not just mad but also extremely dangerous.
Is he a DAVOS man by any chance?
A major eco parasite.
He was Rishi Sunak’s boss at hedge fund TCI.
Sunak’s connection with Hohn really deserves a lot more scrutiny than it’s getting.
Hohn has a big phalanx of supporters on the Tory backbenches, not that I’m suggesting they are persuaded by his money rather than his arguments. Albeit a lot of people who can’t believe the MPs could be stupid enough to believe the arguments assume it must be the money that’s made the difference.
“I’ll be gone, you’ll be gone,” as the cynics sometimes say
Another way in which our democracy is being subsumed
These would all be tax deductible donations. So a good portion of the funding for these climate crazies is being funded with your tax money. This should be illegal but lax rules around non profits, philanthropy and fake charities allows this political abuse. Climate change only occurs in rich western countries for a reason.