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"Here is yet another victory for the hard-right Toryism that now seems to run the party, and a reminder of the financial links that connect Conservative politics with big hydrocarbon companies & devout (#ClimateCrisis) sceptics & deniers."

#EnoughIsEnough
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"It is not hard to detect the influence of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the climate-sceptic lobby group founded in 2009 by Thatcher’s one-time chancellor Nigel Lawson, which now numbers the fantastically influential Tory backbencher Steve Baker among its trustees."
"The Global Warming Policy Foundation chair was the co-owner of a company that had donated £25,000 to Johnson’s and Jeremy Hunt’s leadership campaigns in 2019 and £100,000 to Vote Leave; this year, another firm he own gave £10,000 to Braverman’s short-lived leadership campaign.
Baker’s ERG blurs into the Net Zero Research Group: another Tory MP to watch is the latter’s chair, Craig Mackinlay, a former deputy leader of UKIP who has skilfully channelled the fierce climate denial of his former party into his new one."
"Craig Mackinlay thinks the pursuit of net zero is an “elite delusion”, which suggests a familiar sleight of hand: using a confected idea of the put-upon masses to protect the interest of fossil-fuel giants."
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Establishing economic incentive zones (IZs) is one of the main policy instruments used here, & across the world, to attract investments.

This video is a great intro to understanding the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) across the developing world.

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