A network of foundations, research groups and policy shops, often funded through foreign channels, is behind the push for net zero in the UK.
The Spectator calls this network the “Dark Green lobby.”
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“[The Dark Green lobby] has been astonishingly successful in shaping policy, controlling debate and overruling elected governments in the courts. It has prevented the exploration of oil and gas in the North Sea, kept energy prices high and made us ever more dependent on Chinese technology,” the outlet said.
The Dark Green actor with the most influence is the Netherlands-based European Climate Foundation (“ECF”), which supports “700+ partner organisations” to “broaden political and public support for net zero.”
“The ECF hopes to ‘embed climate action in robust, future-proof frameworks that withstand political change’. In other words, sod the voters,” The Spectator said.
To this end, it spent €171 million (£146 million) last year to support climate action across Europe and beyond and has donated significant amounts of money to various British thinktanks, including:
- £338,000 to the Institute for Public Policy Research (“IPPR”), a left-leaning organisation that funded a programme of work which produced a report arguing for the closure of the North Sea basin.
- £114,000 to the New Economics Foundation (“NEF”), a radical left-wing thinktank which has campaigned for fossil fuel divestment. It was previously headed by Miatta Fahnbulleh – formerly Miliband’s junior minister – who is rumoured to be leading Andy Burnham’s putative policy unit.
The ECF also funds the Labour Climate and Environment Forum (“LCEF”), which aims to strengthen ties between politicians, trade unions, industry leaders, and policy thinkers to make “tackling the climate emergency” a core Labour value.
In addition to funding left-leaning thinktanks, the ECF has also donated to centre-right thinktanks such as Onward, the Centre for Policy Studies, Policy Exchange, and the Conservative Environment Network, in an effort to influence a broader range of political perspectives.
The Conservative Environment Network “has produced papers suggesting, among other things, that we must have an international ‘fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty’ and that Britain should institute a carbon border tax,” The Spectator said.
Where does ECF get all its money from? The ECF is a key recipient of funds from the California-based Sequoia Climate Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Ballmer Group, which collectively grant about a billion dollars annually to climate-related causes.
The ECF not only uses these funds for campaigns to stop oil and gas production, it also uses them to distort the energy debate by de-legitimising opponents. To this end, it funds outlets like Carbon Brief, which focuses on attacking “net-zero misinformation,” and has, for example, criticised The Telegraph for questioning Ed Miliband’s desire to block oil and gas exploration.
Another prominent organisation which is part of the Dark Green lobby is DeSmog UK. It receives money from the European Media and Information Fund.
It’s not only net zero propaganda and attacks on those exposing it that Dark Green money funds. The Dark Green lobby also uses litigation against elected governments to frustrate the will of voters.
The Quadrature Climate Foundation (“QCF”) and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (“CIFF”) provide significant funding to groups that engage in judicial reviews and other legal challenges.
QCF, which is funded by the hedge fund Quadrature Capital has donated large sums to Labour, including £4 million in 2024 – the largest single donation the party has ever received – and has appointed its advisory board co-chair, Rachel Kyte, as the UK’s special envoy on climate, while also funding the Energy Climate Intelligence Unit, which also receives money from ECF and has been quoted by Ed Miliband.
CIFF, established by billionaire hedge-fund owner Chris Hohn, is another major player in funding efforts to undermine voters’ wishes through the courts. CIFF has funded ClientEarth, a legal activist group which uses the courts to frustrate moves to cheaper energy. It has also donated millions to the Foundation for International Law for the Environment, which funds climate-related litigation and other academic research into climate change.
CIFF has a close relationship with the Chinese Communist party, with its CEO, Kate Hampton, having received a “friendship award” from Beijing and holding a position on the board of the green committee of the Belt and Road Initiative, and has given $15 million to Energy Foundation China, which has been alleged to be part of a network funding activist lawyers and climate advocacy groups seeking to undermine American energy independence.
The Dark Green money network is distinctive and powerful due to its interlocking nature. The ECF has received funding from both the QCF and from CIFF. And some institutions, such as the LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, receive funding from all three.
“The British left has spent years warning about malign billionaires, ‘industrial complexes’ and dodgy lobbying networks. Yet on net zero it has built such a machine itself: an internationally funded ecosystem that bankrolls thinktanks, campaign groups, media organisations and litigation in pursuit of a single political objective, The Spectator said.
“Net zero has given the left a new means of controlling and constraining capitalism and growth. It has given international billionaires a cause to signal their virtue while they asset-strip and price-gouge elsewhere.”
You can read the full article on The Spectator HERE.
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This article is astonishing. Among other things, it shows clearly how globally involved those we call the globalists actually are, collecting money one way or another from the public in many nations and passing it around to persuade or simply pay one nation or another to do the globalists’ bidding.
The money is not only collected in taxes, but also from the profits of the stock market and global corporations. If only people would think and do a little research before they buy so that their purchase supports local and regional businesses instead of globalist ones whenever possible.
The trouble is, that locally owned stores here in the US hardly carry half of what one needs. Most specialized items have to be ordered from Amazon or other Big business. But I agree – we see barely the top of the iceberg while the rest is invisible. Imagine if all the money wasted away were to be used for the people. How would it be to just help a needy person, instead of first sending it to a large organization who keep half or more, then to a small organization, same, and then a few coins arrive at the needy. I stopped donation to the organization for abused women when they became part of a cupola-organization.
Yes, they do have us over a barrel when it comes to needing things not made in the West.
Another thing we can do is not replace anything we have that still works. Don’t go for the latest made-in-China gadget or fashion while donating your still-good things to a charity that will sell them on and keep the money for its potentially lavish administrative expenses.
Another is to give charities things their clients can use instead of money they can pocket for themselves. Maybe a shelter for abused women can use toys for their kids. Some toys are still made in Western countries, so buying them does not profit a country hostile to us.
You are so right about identifying and avoiding charities that are more about making money than serving needy people. It’s a bit of work, but we do have to look at who ‘owns’ the charity, who runs it, and who it serves, in case they or their clientele are mostly parasites taking advantage of our goodwill. Are they fellow Brits or Americans? Are the clients really down on their luck, or illegal immigrants raking in benefits? Or is the charity a fake altogether, a front for criminal activities like child grooming or fraud? The US has a lot of those.
Grifters are attracted to charity jobs because it’s so easy to inflate their own salaries and perks and to quietly siphon money off to other charities, political organizations and even foreign countries the original donors would never willingly support.
You folks need a DOGE operation similar to ours in the US. You’re going to find most if not all of your dirty money is coming straight from tax payers and crooked government grants. That’s how they have been doing it all along
Anything that is or had the word GREEN in it means “destroy” and return to the year 1700 so get a horse, as the green agenda is to destroy and conquer and stupid people just go along with this crap.
We won’t be allowed horses because of the methane lie that is taking our cows and cattle away from us, or some similar Green lie. Only the elite will have either one, as many as they want.
Cattle ranches and dairy farms in the US are going bankrupt due to over-regulation and introduced diseases while former President George W, Bush has a huge organic cattle ranch in Brazil. He cut down a chunk of the Amazon rain forest to create it. That’s what Green really means.
In the EU it is the typical usual suspects who are still trying to fly the flag of climate change to the masses. They are simply laying the foundation for the Antichrist & the false prophet who will take over to lead the world to ruin under their New World Order. They are not there yet but they are working on it. Pastor Gary Boyd