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Green Billionaires Fund Large Backbench Tory Net Zero Parliamentary Caucus

by Chris Morrison
3 January 2024 7:00 AM

Almost half the Conservative Party’s backbench MPs in the British Parliament belong to a Caucus promoting extreme Net Zero ideas that is funded by a small group of green billionaire foundations. The Conservative Environment Network (CEN), which acts mostly as a lobby group,  receives over 80% of its funding from the European Climate Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers, Oak Foundation, WWF-UK and Clean Air Fund. As regular readers will recall, these paymasters crop up regularly whenever anyone of influence, be they journalists, academics or politicians, requires help and guidance in promoting the insanity of removing hydrocarbon energy from industrial societies within less than 30 years.

The CEN relies on ‘peer reviewed’ research to lobby for Net Zero policies at both Parliamentary and local council levels. It counts over 150 MPs and Peers in its Parliamentary caucus, over 500 local councillors, along with “international declaration signatories” numbering 300 legislators from 45 countries. The billionaire-funded operation is said to support a network of ‘Net Zero champions’ inside Parliament “to make the positive case that Net Zero is an economic opportunity as well as moral responsibility”.

It is noted by CEN that when Russia invaded Ukraine “we helped promote the narrative that reducing dependency on fossil fuels through renewable energy and insulation would help defeat Putin”. Quite how fossil fuel dependency is reduced by intermittent renewables that rely on back-up hydrocarbons is not immediately clear. It’s unlikely that Putin quaked in his boots at the thought of the widespread mobilisation of loft insulators in the U.K.

The biggest CEN paymaster seems to be the European Climate Foundation, which is heavily supported by the Extinction Rebellion funder Sir Christopher Hohn. The CEN is run by Ben Goldsmith who is one of five trustees of Hohn’s fund, The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. He is the brother of Lord Goldsmith, the former Conservative Environment Minister who served under Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Interestingly, Johnson’s father, Stanley, a long-time green activist, is listed as a member of the CEN steering committee.

The Clean Air Fund is also funded by Hohn along with Bloomberg Philanthropies, the green vehicle used to promote the political agenda of Michael Bloomberg, the former Mayor of New York. Bloomberg has a track record of funding the activities of politicians, again as regular readers will recall. He is one of the main backers of C40, a group of local civic leaders around the world, chaired by London Mayor and fireworks impresario Sadiq Khan. Removing cars from cites – and a form of rationing, whereby city dwellers are limited to a daily food quote of 2,500 calories with just 44g of meat – are just some of the proposals suggested in internal reports.

Of course targeting politicians is not a new game and lobbying legislators has long been a massive international enterprise. But the new breed of green promoters is particularly aggressive and the sums of money on offer are eye-watering. It has been reported that Hohn gave £46 million to C40. Jeremy Grantham, like Hohn a hedge fund billionaire, funds British academic institutions and journalists, but he also seems to have politicians in his sights. Speaking in 2019 to a group of business people in Copenhagen about the approaching apocalypse, he asked rhetorically, “What should I do, you say“? His suggestion: “You should lobby your Government officials – invest in an election and buy some politicians. I am happy to say we do quite a bit of that at the Grantham Foundation… any candidate as long as they are green.”

All of this, it might be argued, has led to the British Parliament donkey-nodding through some of the most restrictive and potentially most disastrous Net Zero legislation in the world. The actual target of 2050 Net Zero was rushed through in 2019 via secondary legislation by a Prime Minister without any considered debate. A green activist legal unit within Government called the Climate Change Committee keeps feet to the fire with demands for industry-destroying cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. Over £12 billion a year is lifted from the pockets of electricity users to pay for hopelessly inefficient power from the breezes and sunbeams that accounts for barely 5% of total energy use. In the cities, the cars of the less well off are penalised, while empty cycle lanes, road closures, 20 mph speed limits and sky-rocketing parking charges proliferate. Meanwhile, there are not enough children in the Congo to mine all the cobalt needed for spontaneously combusting electric cars, while heat pumps spell catastrophe for the life chances of old and frail people in the depths of a cold British winter.

“We’re very grateful to all those who have supported CEN financially and made our work possible,” says the Conservative Environment Network.

Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.

Tags: BillionairesClimate AlarmismDemocracyNet ZeroParliamentPropaganda

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unmaskthetruth
unmaskthetruth
3 years ago

The only person in the World who got it right about lockdowns has now been bought by the Medical Mafia. A sad day indeed.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  unmaskthetruth

Did Anders get the message?

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MikeHaseler
MikeHaseler
3 years ago
Reply to  unmaskthetruth

More thoughts as well.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago

It occurs that one way that a ruthless institution could remove effective opposition to its nefarious schemes would be to use its practically unlimited budget to recruit, neuter, and ideally ultimately frame, discredit and disgrace anyone who stands against it.

I’m certain that doesn’t apply here though.

Sure of it.

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DodosArentDead
DodosArentDead
3 years ago

We have all read the facts. The data was fudged, the tests were useless, the statistics artificially inflated, and many deaths were intentionally caused through institutionalized medical negligence. Hospitals received funding bonuses as payoffs.
None of that had anything to do with bad data, or pessimistic models. They did it all on purpose, all of it.

https://off-guardian.org/2022/03/07/dont-believe-the-medias-fake-post-mortem-the-pandemic-was-not-a-mistake/

Last edited 3 years ago by DodosArentDead
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Mark
Mark
3 years ago

Tegnell did a great job of standing up to the lockdown thuggery, and somewhat resisted the worst aspects of the covid panic, but in the end he is very much part of the technocratic collectivist public health borg. Credit where it is due, and he certainly provided a vital example in the early days of the panic, but no hero worship.

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

I don’t think they’d give a real sceptic a job at the WHO. Tegnell took a more measured and sensible approach than most, but that’s not saying much. I suppose better him than some of the others, but the WHO is beyond saving IMO, short of removing the senior leadership and pruning their remit drastically. Ditto most other “public health” organisations worldwide.

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rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

As the WHO’s biggest individual funder should currently be facing charges of crimes against humanity, you do have to ask why people still think the WHO is worth saving?

I think it needs shutting down, starting again and having Bill Gates et al told in no uncertain terms that they will be shot dead if they come within 1 million miles of the new organisation.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Another day of anti-borg bigotry on DS, I see. Your hatred will ultimately be futile.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

I just can’t help myself.

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Bolloxed Britannia
Bolloxed Britannia
3 years ago

🤔…Keep your friends close and your enemy’s closer.

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John Dee
John Dee
3 years ago

I’m going to look on the bright side and hope that he’ll bring more trustworthiness to the WHO. They certainly seem to have lost a lot of that since Gates bought them.

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brachiopod
brachiopod
3 years ago

This will only be a good thing if Gates discovers a conscience and goes off to live in a monastery and the current head is retired.

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TheGreenGoblin
TheGreenGoblin
3 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

It is humility that he sorely lacks.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
3 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenGoblin

He is one of the few “experts” appointed by governments who admitted some of his worst mistakes (letting Covid into old peoples homes, closing colleges but not schools of course) and making apologies at the time for those mistakes.

Seems to have enormously more humility that the malicious red-nosed clowns foisted on most populations, notably UK

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TSull
TSull
3 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

That’s about as likely as Microsoft releasing a version of Windows that isn’t full of bugs.

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

Gates discovers a conscience

ROTFLMAO. That’s going to happen shortly after rivers start flowing from the sea to their springs.

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John001
John001
3 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

We are told: ‘Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.’

But I want to apply profanity and abuse to Mr Gates, not to this forum.

There’s a common view that the WHO went off the rails, i.e. was taken over by undesirable people 20-25 years ago. It worked well before that.

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Aletheia of Oceania
Aletheia of Oceania
3 years ago

‘Anders Tegnell Lands Job at WHO’, and is immediately enrolled on a course of ‘reconditioning’.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  Aletheia of Oceania

Tegnell was likely made an offer he couldn’t refuse and perhaps it was not all about money.

Last edited 3 years ago by Rowan
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Dodgy Geezer
Dodgy Geezer
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Exactly. It was either ‘work under the thumb of the WHO’ or ‘you’ll never work again’…..

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Menckenitis
Menckenitis
3 years ago

Mark Lynas changed his tune on GMOs and now pushes the oxymoronically-named-because-it’s-Gates-funded ‘Cornell Alliance for Science’. Anders Tegnell might well have followed the same path.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/09/mark-lynas-truth-treachery-gm

Yanis Varoufakis, when Greek finance minister in 2010 backed down in the face of the EU demands. I remember reading (in a Guardian article I think – can’t find the reference), when asked why, he said “I didn’t want to die”.

Everyone has their price and, regretably, for some that might mean their life. History shows that psychopathy knows no limits. That’s the power of lack of empathy and lack of moral compass. The medico-industrial complex is famous for both.

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
3 years ago

LMAO !

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago

in Sweden following the official inquiry, which while affirming his general no-lockdown approach, also criticised the lack of earlier action on masks, shops and restaurants and, pointedly, criticised the Government for following his advice too closely.

So he should have imposed pointless and damaging measures which made no discernible difference to the spread of The Deadly Virus in any of the many countries which imposed them. Right…

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PatrickF
PatrickF
3 years ago

The money too good to resist, Anders?

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iane
iane
3 years ago

Well, having become increasingly cynical over the last few years (and decades) I just hope he has not been bought.

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  iane

p.s. Looking at some of the other comments, I see I am not completely alone!

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mishmash
mishmash
3 years ago

Sodium azide detected on rapid antigen swabs.

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rtaylor
rtaylor
3 years ago

Who (sorry) did the Swedes replace him with?

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  rtaylor

No, Who’s on first.

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TSull
TSull
3 years ago

Is this to ensure he is “on message” the next time the psychopaths posing as our representatives try the pandemic stunt?

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

Tegnell, 65, argued that lockdowns were not sustainable and that voluntary measures could achieve the same results without damaging the trust between authorities and the public.

In the face of a virus that is overall about as deadly as the flu, he believes in social distancing, reducing human and economic activity and in using rushed, experimental vaccines.

Swedes, like the Japanese, are an obedient bunch is all.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

For all I know he may believe in Rudolph the Red- Nosed Reindeer

But so far as I am aware, he stood fast against mandates enforcing all those stupid things, especially for the young.

So I suggest he deserves a fair amount of respect.

Clearly far more than the King and the Government in Sweden.

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

He consistently rejected the mediaeval superstition of lockdown.

That is more than good enough.

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JudyRobinson
JudyRobinson
3 years ago

Ivermectin has been distributed by the WHO to infected areas as a treatment for parasitic infections for over 30 years. Especially in certain African countries, Mexico and India, it has been confirmed to be safe to distribute directly to people. In addition, ivermectin has been reported to suppress the invasion of SARS-CoV-2 into cells and inhibit replication. You can get your ivm by visiting https://ivmpharmacy.com

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Bertha
Bertha
3 years ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60681288

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Bertha
Bertha
3 years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/01/mandatory-covid-jabs-dropped-nhs-staff-england-march-health-social-care-workers-law-vaccinated-sajid-javid?fr=operanews

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Bertha
Bertha
3 years ago

Why the collective amnesia. This site has lost the way. The swing parks were locked up. The children were masked in class . The figures were manipulated. People have been injected to keep their jobs and now they don’t need to be. Where is the retribution. Where is the payback. Oh. Let’s all look over there at Ukraine and worry about the price of petrol. No way. The experts need held to account. Where is the push back. Where is Bruce Reynolds? I can’t believe this site is adopting ‘i told you so’ attitude. We need to prosecute those who took our freedom. And when I see people still rubbing the hands to stop a respiratory virus, and wearing masks alone in a car, I don’t berate them, I despair that the y have been manipulated by a bunch of pricks. Where is the payback? The whole thing was a shitshiw but now it’s over/ there’s a war 9n, it’s all ok? Fuck that.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Bertha

Bloody dead right. Bastards.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

“We might also hope he will be a sceptical influence in any development of future pandemic guidance to avoid lockdowns and other draconian measures being normalised.”

Why are future “pandemics” and their plans for, seemingly common features of health discussions nowadays? It’s almost like these things were as common as the common cold.

Any ideas Billy G?

Last edited 3 years ago by huxleypiggles
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Aletheia of Oceania
Aletheia of Oceania
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

“It’s almost like these things were”…planned.

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peyrole
peyrole
3 years ago

We might hope, but he’s probably took the ‘shilling’.

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Draper233
Draper233
3 years ago

Still a hero of 2020 and there were very few of them around.

Can you imagine where we would have been without the Swedish data?

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godders
godders
3 years ago

If you can’t beat ’em. . .

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TheBigman
TheBigman
3 years ago

Keep your friends close….

This will be so they can corrupt him.

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swedenborg
swedenborg
3 years ago
Reply to  TheBigman

Keep your friends close but your enemies even closer (Machiavelli)

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mojo
mojo
3 years ago

This is a really worrying development. Anders will be bullied and silenced when he gets to his position at WHO. I believe this corrupt organisation needs to be disbanded and those who have funded it need to be investigated. That includes UK Government, The Gates Foundation and USA Government. There has been much skulduggery over the years this disgraceful organisation has been in place. A NWO concept that needs to go.

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Iain McCausland
Iain McCausland
3 years ago

Better the enemy inside the tent pissing out. The WHO’s global pandemic and digital ID plan is due for completion by 2024 when all 194 member states cede their health sovereignty to this unelected, CCP influenced organisation – keep your eyes on what our Minister for Health is signing. Tegnell will never be seen or heard from again in the media.

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godders
godders
3 years ago

 
Tegnell’s appointment smells suspiciously like a sop to opponents of the nefarious plan to transfer power over future pandemic policies from individual nations to the much-criticised World Health Organisation (WHO)
 
For weeks, representatives of 194 UN member states have met in Geneva to negotitate away their historical health sovereignty to an un-elected and arguably corrupt and incompetent bureaucracy financially behoven to Bill Gates and Big Pharma.

Under the terms of a binding “international agreement on the prevention and control of pandemics”, national leaders would in future be legally obliged to impose WHO “solutions” – including lockdowns and/or mandatory mass vaccination – whether they and the electorates they are meant to serve want them or not.
 
WEF acolyte (and enthusiastic “Build Back Better” choristor) Boris Johnson actually called for the unaccountable WHO to be handed control months ago, with scarcely a mention by the toothless UK media “watchdogs’.
 
If passed, this egregious power grab would represent a new world order for health and a stepping stone towards the “global governance” goal of the WEF/UNWorld Bank-led “Great Reset” – which the dying legacy media, on life support from government and Big Pharma sponsorship, pathetically continues to call a conspiracy theory”.
 
Implementation was initially scheduled for May 1, but has been postponed following an unexpected surge of opposition – largely as a result of widespread exposure of the hush-hush negotiations via independent news channels and social media.
 
Delaying the passage of this toxic legislative garbage is not enough. It must be recognised for the traitorous sell-out it truly is and consigned to the dustbin of history.
 
https://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/news/national/boris-johnson-calls-for-new-international-treaty-on-pandemic-preparedness-21367/

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RTSC
RTSC
3 years ago

This looks like a case of the WHO neutralising opposition buying future conformity.

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Peter W
Peter W
3 years ago

Let’s hope he is able to bring a bit of measured scepticism to the WHO (a mostly political organisation) and counter The Science(tm) with Science.
I suspect he will be outnumbered!

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janvanruth
janvanruth
3 years ago

another bites the dust…
i you cannot fight them, have them join.

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Martin Frost
Martin Frost
3 years ago

Prof Karol Sakora once worked for WHO although I believe that he left the body due to disagreements over its direction. . Anders Tegnell’s appointment is to be welcomed so long as he does not become isolated. He was about to retire from his job in Sweden anyway. WHO has shown a little discernment in its appointment process for a change. We should be mindful of who WHO might have appointed if he had not put himself forward.

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Jules
Jules
3 years ago

I was in Sweden in December & January when new restrictions and regular press conferences were being held. I did not see Dr. Anders Tegnell once. His WHO appointment is not really of a surprise as I remember thinking he had definitely ticked their box on the “fantastic vaccines” during his second interview with Freddie Sayers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZRR5zZ0I0s

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago

Perhaps they’ve taken him in for a course of indoctrination.

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