by Will Jones
A green energy think tank that Ed Miliband relied on to draw up policy is partly funded by overseas cash, leading to questions about the influence of “shady” green lobbyists and financiers in Britain’s Net Zero policies. The Telegraph has more.
Ember, which inspired the Energy Secretary’s pledge to lower bills by £300 by 2030, is funded by a number of overseas climate-focused donors including the Netherlands-based European Climate Foundation (ECF) and the Sequoia Climate Foundation, headquartered in California.
The funds are listed on Ember’s website as contributions from the founders of the London-based think tank, though exact donation figures are not provided.
Ember, which says it “aims to accelerate the clean energy transition”, is one of a number of pro-Net Zero and green energy think tanks funded by overseas investors.
According to the Spectator, the ECF donated £338,000 last year to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a Left-leaning think tank, and has provided £114,000 to the New Economics Foundation, another Left-wing think tank whose stated purpose is to create a “new economy that works for people and within environmental limits”.
Opposition parties said there were questions to answer about the transparency of funding behind think tanks seeking to influence Britain’s Net Zero debate.
Andrew Griffith, the Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade, said: “There’s a murky world financing the advocacy of climate policies, the purpose of which seems to indulge the luxury beliefs of the uber-rich whilst the poor pay the price.
“Whilst the Government refuses to meet oil companies, shady green organisations seem to have a direct line to Ed Miliband.”
Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform, said: “Serious questions need to be answered around overseas green lobbyist influence on this Labour Government and Ministers.”
A 2023 report by Ember into how expanding renewables could help cut bills was taken up by Miliband, who used it as the basis of his pledge to lower household bills by £300 by 2030, made during the 2024 election campaign.
Labour has made little progress towards that goal and Miliband has since been widely criticised for the promise, though the Energy Secretary has stood by the pledge.
Of course, this won’t be news to Daily Sceptic readers. But it’s good to see the mainstream media finally catching up.
Worth reading in full.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. There is a group of wealthy organisations with a lot of money to spend spreading alarmist disinformation through the media. None of these organisations are elected. Many of them are supported by rich individuals with bizarre views on all sorts of topics who want the world to support their personal opinions.
What’s worse is that they get their wealth via fleecing taxpayers. They want you dead but not before they have a chance to rob you.
They also use their money to support green inspired litigation to support their views . 95% of taxpayers couldn’t afford this type of caper to get their voices heard
Correct, there’s a story in The National Pulse reporting that congress are looking at funding of green groups, who have been training judges in climate law, and their links to the Chinese Communist Party.
That would be the globallist cabal.
Has anyone asked what Net Zero is for?
We don’t need to ask; we were told. It is to make the UK the “Saudi Arabia of wind“.
That would explain all the unkempt hair.
Ah, Boris Johnson! When he was a newspaper correspondent he made up stories and when he was PM he continued doing so.
He is so good at making up stories that he was later invited to tell them around the world!
Why ask when its written down on the Georgia Guidestones.
A sub-500 mio global population.(403200000 according to my lunacy)
A lot of Dark Money seems to originate in countries that don’t play by the rules, like China, for instance. Imagine getting two hits for your Dark Money, you get to sell solar panels and induce chaos into the other countries economy. Enough, already.
The article doesn’t dig deep enough. There are many cut-outs and lots of laundering, but most of this dark money originates in the deep pockets of enemies of the West. The eternal principle of “cui bono” applies. If there were a country that had a monopoly on the rare earth minerals and so on that make the Green revolution possible, wouldn’t they willingly fund advocacy groups and politicians that consume their product? Especially if they consider the West as rivals for world hegemony?
Your question does not dig deep enough.
How was it even possible for China to reach the rare earth monopol?
Where did all the money and manufacturing came from?
What made the global green blob possible?
USA is the answer.
As I wrote above- It’s from within.
China does not have a monopoly on rare earths of any kind. Deposits in other countries are far larger than total Chinese deposits. China currently produces a lot of the worlds rare earths as their production costs due to a number of factors is less than many other producers so its products are cheaper on average. What it does control is around 90% of the refining mid stream production. The world does not need china but to do that mid stream refining has to be increased a lot. Governments in england, the EU and the USA have fought tooth and nail to stop that increase in production with rules and laws.
If you are American and complaining about countries “not playing by the rules”
than your hypocrisy and ignorance/ or lack of awareness is totally off the charts.
In those few seconds of the year you don’t attack foreign countries, pirate foreign ships, or initiate revolutions(“We paid 5 billions so Ukrainians get what they deserve”Nuland, ass sec. of state ) that always end somehow with proAmerican regimes,
don’t create “america/israel-hating” but muslim-killing terrorists who always fight alongside the US and even put them in charge as happened in Syria(whose regime somehow turned US loving zealots), attack the currencies of foreign countries like Turkey, Syria or Iran(Soros-operative Bessent admitted at least that)or blow up pipelines(Thank you USA – polish minister Sikorski) and then sell your gas instead with 200% premium-
in those few seconds you complain about foreign influence.
Almost all problems you are facing come from within.
Great Transformer Obama was pushed by the Mafia families Pritzker and Crown.
Most of the money that is used against you is your taxpayer money as scissor already mentioned above.
It’s an enemy from within you should be looking for.
SxyxS, I think you should consider therapy (I am none of the things you accuse me of).
One of your usual anti-American rants. Some of what you say is true, but it is stuffed with a lie.
Yes so China use influence collapse European and American car makers by under cutting them with cheap EVs
This gets more dodgy by the day. A Serious Fraud investigation is needed NOW!
He is the son of Adolphe, happy to live off the back’s of others and then to stab them in that self same back.
A Fabian.
Actually he is on the exact opposite spectrum of Adolphe the Artist.
On literallyevery level.
Be it ethnically or ideologically as his father is a rabid Marxist – very much hated by the painter.
And while Adolphe was at first very reluctant to attack England(they don’t teach this strategical mistake in schools),
Ed is in full attack mode all the time.
Funny, Mussolini, the person Hitler idolized split from the Italian socialist part and formed the Fascist party because he felt that the socialists weren’t moving towards communism fast enough.
Hitler hated anyone who was a potential rival for complete power.
Story tip – Wind and Solar Finally Meet the Taxpayer’s Breaking Point – PJ Media
The head of the European Climate Foundation, one Laurence Tubiana, appears to be a real big-wig among European alarmists. According to Wikipedia, she played a huge part in the Paris agreement. I think this may have the potential to bring a chicken or two home to roost.
What is Mad Ed’s definition of net zero? Why does believe it will be achieved by 2050?
Some of the money comes from an American billionaire who lives in china.
The actual question is what concrete steps is the guy doing to lower the power bills. Promise mean nothing, all politicians make promises to the sheep which is how all politicians view all voters, all citizens who do not support the politician with cash.
Stop being a sheep, demand what concrete steps are being done and when they will occur. Everything not that is a lie. .
Reading the comments it is obvious none of the commenters ever bothered to look up the subject. China does not produce all to the worlds rare earths, only around 60%. Those rare earths in china are a small part of world known reserves. China as a government spent money to develop the production The UK, EU and the USA spent money to prevent or limit production in their supply areas. China does produce most of the refined rare earth metals around 90%. There is a reason, the same reason if produces a lot of the mined rare earths. The chinese government spend money building the refiners, the UK, EU and the USA governments spent a lot of money making sure the refiners could not be built. The UK , EU and the USA shot themselves in the foot thanks to people like the minister in this story.
The US did indeed shoot itself in the foot. Just this year President Trump issued an executive order to try to ensure that our sole remaining operating mine and refining facility must stay afloat for strategic reasons, and his policies are attempting to encourage expansion of our capacity.
Like it or not, I suspect most of the money originates in some form or fashion from folks who see the potential for striking it rich from all the money available for CO2 reduction. Windmills, solar panels, CO2 capture, transmission/distribution, automobiles, on and on. These people have no concern for the poverty and anguish this will create. What is the adage? Don’t let a good disaster go to waste?
Isn’t that interesting… They’ve been telling us for years that the skeptics are the ones funded by dark money organizations and merchants of doubt. It seems they were describing themselves all along.
A picture of a grinning Communist in front of a hideously ugly solar installation. If it is real and not AI, this could be used as the basis for a great anti-Milliband / anti-solar campaign.
For countries with a constitution, it’s time for a new clause: If a government does not implement the basis of their last election campaign then they are removed, force majeur excepted. The constitutional court tests any claims and evidence (after, as usual, first deciding whether to take the claims to trial). I think the clause is desperately needed because certain governments have become so cynical and downright dishonest, and I think it would work (though nothing can last for ever). With a little lateral thinking it could be made to work even in the UK (no constitution) or the USA (fixed terms of government).
You don’t really appreciate that Ed Miliband saved UK taxpayers a huge amount of money by accepting these (undisclosed) contributions. Long Live Net Zero!
Edward Samuel Milliband is the ultimate useful grinning idiot.
In March 2025 Milliband visited China and subsequently the UK government issued a word salad of a statement:
http://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-china-restart-meaningful-climate-change-dialogue
Reading it has made me concerned for the future as long as Milliband has his hands on the levers of power, possibly even more so if he becomes Chancellor of the Exchequor under Burnham.
The main effects will be on foreign financiers and manufacturers.
The UK will continue to have the cities deindustrialised and the countryside industrialised.
The beneficiaries as far as manufacturing is concerned are:
Wind generators China
Solar panels China
Batteries China is busy buying up world supplies of lithium
Rare earth’s China through aggressive pricing and lazy environmental regulation is
cornering the market
EVs and heat pumps China is gaining a strong foothold through aggressive pricing
Financiers will get guaranteed returns through subsidies.
Money will be wasted on dubious projects such as carbon capture and storage.
One would love to know what was discussed behind the scenes.
Is Milliband using Net Zero as a tool to achieve the outcome of the type of state that his father aspired to?
The outcome will certainly NOT be cheap reliable energy.
A word salad is a thought salad written down.
It seems that the past few months here in Europe and particularly the UK having a hot spell with so called record temperatures being broken has raised the growing number of sceptical folk to scrutinise ukmos data. This in turn with excellent work by intelligent principled individuals like Ray Sanders, to not only question the accuracy and authenticity of the data, but more importantly the seemingly ‘agenda’ of the met office. The amount of people now doubting, questioning and being gob smacked by what they find is telling me the wheels are coming off the ukmo credibility wagon. MSM and state. Lying can work now and again but when a fissure starts to develope enough then more and more people start looking. Imo ukmo at the very top are rattled all the way to Davos. So much so they reined and returned to their old colour code weather maps. To me the new world order are akin to a angler trying to land a 200lb fish on a 50lb line. If they go too hard the line will snap , that line is their credibility and authority, if it snaps they are effed
We’re going to need quantum computers to trace and uncover all the money connections behind the curtain on this and a lot of other hidden things. Call it Quantum Audits.