Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil - funded
thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil - funded
thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
On Monday, Davidson will help to launch Onwards, a new centre - right
thinktank with the express aim to generate policies that appeal to younger voters.
Not exact matches
During the twilight years of the Clinton administration, a conservative republican
thinktank presented the President
with a bold statement of principles conceived to advance America's interests as the dominant global empire.
The report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), a right - wing
thinktank, agrees
with the principles behind the work and pensions secretary's plans, but insists the reforms do not go far enough.
Trade unions reacted
with outrage today after a prominent right - wing
thinktank branded 400,000 public sector job losses «easily manageable».
For now, potential future leadership candidates are still keeping beady eyes on the ultimate prize, courting conference delegates
with private phone calls and dolling out advice to
thinktank types sniffing aroundparliamentary seats.
«If this is how things play out, the chancellor will present Labour
with a big opportunity,» the Demos
thinktank's deputy director Duncan O'Leary wrote for politics.co.uk.
Nevertheless questions continue to be asked as to why donations totalling # 50,000 were channelled through the Progressive Policies Forum - a «
thinktank»
with no staff or publications to its name.
The shale gas debate summarised,
with a nice Irish voice and some friendly music in the background, courtesy of the Institute of International and European Affairs
thinktank.
He says: «I'm confident that Demos will help us
with these questions, alongside other leading
thinktanks that we have always worked
with.
John Kampfner launches Lost labours, published by the
thinktank CentreForum,
with Nick Clegg today
A poll by the
thinktank British Future finds strong public support for a change in the UK's relationship
with the EU.
Policy Exchange, probably the biggest and richest of the
thinktanks, has enjoyed close links
with the Conservative party.
The New Economics Foundation (NEF), an independent economic
thinktank, compared people buying food at a supermarket
with a local farmers» market, and found twice the money stayed in the community when people bought locally.
The New Local Government Network (NLGN)
thinktank released a report recommending councils engage
with new models of shared services to meet the needed efficiency savings.
The backlash against a report which called for people to move from poor northern cities to London has triggered a massive backlash from the Conservative party, which has close links
with the
thinktank which produced it.
With the Liberal Democrat conference now over and Labour's annual meeting set to begin this weekend, thinktanks have expressed their dissatisfaction with the status
With the Liberal Democrat conference now over and Labour's annual meeting set to begin this weekend,
thinktanks have expressed their dissatisfaction
with the status
with the status quo.
The
thinktank calculates that the reality of the government's small real terms increase in schools spending coupled
with rising classroom numbers meant that spending per pupil would fall by 2.25 % over the next four years.
David Cameron has lately been engaging fruitfully
with external political
thinktanks (including, I should say, Demos).
Over the last 6 months the Policy & Reserach Unit has been undertaking an outreach project
with leading
thinktanks, business and NGOs.
A
thinktank says council leaders, not the London Assembly, are best equipped to deal
with the next mayor of London - whoever that may be.
The
thinktank had argued that Labour's only feasible route into government was
with the support of parties such as the Lib Dems and Scottish National party.
Asked after the speech, at the Institute for Public Policy Research
thinktank in London, how she envisaged balancing her hope for what she called an «enabling» immigration system
with some voters» concerns on new arrivals, Abbott said it was vital to accentuate the positives.
A study released today by the Resolution Foundation
thinktank suggests a deal could be achieved, but only
with difficulty.
«They can, for example, become more brittle, susceptible to cracking or less able to cope
with temperature extremes,» said Anthony Froggatt, senior research fellow at London - based
thinktank Chatham House.
CrushTime was developed after a design
thinktank session held
with Google.
I'm sure your readers are aware that The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a thoroughly discredited Exxon - funded
thinktank listed
with the rest of the $ 16 million dollars worth at / / www.exxonsecrets.org/html/listorganizations.
Dr Indur Goklany is affiliated
with the Exxon Funded
thinktank the International Policy Network (US).
People like Andrew Bolt are still going on about the 1997 Oregon petition, in which a lot of people (about 1 per cent of whom had any more relevant qualifications than I do) agreed
with a misleading statement sent out by a lunatic - fringe
thinktank, and were then quoted as «scientists who reject global warming».
From what their
thinktanks spew to their politicians, you would think not, but also perhaps they have someone who agrees
with the mainstream science that is keeping quiet.
Blame their
thinktanks for this lack of progress and rather significant failure to participate in the SCC debate
with any quantitative input.
The problem is when fossil fuel industries funnel money to the policymakers themselves and the
thinktanks that provide them
with information, which is for the purpose of favoring those industries when policies are made or blocked, especially if built on the dubious scientific standards of their
thinktanks.
Peabody's filings revealed funding for the American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate lobby group which opposes clean energy standards and tried to impose financial penalties on homeowners
with solar panels, as well as a constellation of conservative
thinktanks and organisations.
re: PolyisTCOandbanned You are likely familiar
with the idea of «money - laundering» whether in the formal sense of washing illegal funds, or in the more general sense of moving money around so you can't tell where it came from, as in some political donations and the whole funding complex of
thinktanks and and fronts,.
Unfortunately, it is also hard to ignore that it could be perceived as timely hype given this conservative
thinktank's opposition to the carbon tax, what
with Salby making his sweeping political statement against the IPCC right on cue.
A while ago, the Chicago - based Heartland Institute, a conservative / libertarian / denialist
thinktank, got into a lot of trouble by putting up billboards
with pictures of people like the Unabomber who, Heartland claimed, were climate change believers.
Bringing Rights Back Home,
with foreword by Lord Hoffmann — Policy Exchange: A report by political scientist Michael Pinto - Duschinsky, commissioned by the
thinktank Policy Exchange, offers a strong academic criticism of the European Court of Human Rights» current composition and powers, as well as the affects its judgments are having in Britain.
The project was advanced in collaboration
with the Z / Yen
thinktank's Long Finance initiative.