World- the UK Example- - How Governments and Corporations are Tightly Entangled-  Mapped: The Tory Network of Climate Denial and Fossil Fuel Funding. DeSmog catalogues how oil and gas firms have forged ties with the highest levels of government, the media, and influential think tanks. DeSmog Adam BarnettonJun 12, 2024 DeSmog analysed donations, registers of interests, and company accounts, drawing on years of investigative reporting and our climate disinformation database, to map the financial and institutional ties that bind this network.  The investigation finds that eight members of the current Conservative government, including its environment and net zero secretaries, have received donations from fossil fuel interests or supporters of climate science denial.  In total, the past three prime ministers – Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, and Boris Johnson – have received more than £300,000 from these donors, most of it during their campaigns to become leader of the Conservative Party. DeSmog revealed last month that the Conservative Party has received £8.4 million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election. The Conservative Party’s ties to organised climate denial go back at least to 2009, when the late Tory peer Nigel Lawson, who was chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher, founded the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. In more recent years, climate denial has gained ground via free market think tanks opposed to government net zero targets – several of them funded by fossil fuel companies – and right-wing media outlets waging a culture war against climate action. Against this frenzied anti-climate backlash, the impacts of the climate crisis are becoming increasingly visible. The past two years were the hottest the British Isles has ever seen, with the UK experiencing temperatures of more than 40C for the first time.  Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “Abraham Lincoln spoke of government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ As DeSmog and Democracy for Sale have revealed ours is of, by and for Big Oil: a tragic betrayal of the principles of democracy, and one that will follow these Cabinet ministers to their graves.

”Fossil Fuel Funders.....The Conservative Party has received significant sums from donors with polluting interests, while some Tory politicians have financial interests in fossil fuels......read on   

Conservative Party and Climate Denial......DeSmog’s analysis reveals the influence of climate science deniers on the Conservative Party......read on    

GWPF Donations to Senior Tories.......Donors to the GWPF are also important funders of the Conservative Party. Lord Hintze, who has given more than £4 million to the Conservatives since 2002, has donated to five current members of the government.....read on  

Tufton Street Ties......The GWPF is not the only climate-hostile think tank with ties to the Conservative Party. A network of libertarian think tanks based in and around 55 Tufton Street in Westminster has boasted significant access to the Conservative government over the last 14 years. Though these think tanks are characterised by a lack of funding transparency, investigations have revealed that a number of them have received funding from major fossil fuel companies, or from U.S. libertarian groups promoting climate denial......read on. 

Climate Denial in the Media.......Voices attacking climate action, and casting doubt on the science behind them, have gained a significant media platform in recent years with the help of wealthy donors and Conservative politicians.  The Telegraph newspaper is one of the country’s strongest media critics of climate action. A DeSmog investigation in November found that 85 percent of Telegraph opinion pieces about environmental issues over a six month period were anti-green – either attacking climate policy, questioning climate science, or ridiculing environmental groups.Three Telegraph columnists have current roles at the GWPF: Lord Frost, Matt Ridley, and Allison Pearson.......read on and for more on the Interconnectedness of all this, run your cursor over the interactive diagram at the top!     https://www.desmog.com/2024/06/12/mapped-tory-network-climate-denial-fossil-fuel-funding/