How Donors Trust distributed millions to anti-climate groups | Environment. Dozens of exhibitors promote their oil and gas related businesses. By 2010, Donors Trust had distributed $118m to 102 thinktanks or action groups. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA The secretive funding channel known as the Donors Trust patronised a host of conservative causes. But climate was at the top of the list. By 2010, Donors Trust had distributed $118m to 102 thinktanks or action groups which have a record of denying the existence of a human factor in climate change, or opposing environmental regulations. Recipients included some of the best-known thinktanks on the right. The American Enterprise Institute, which is closely connected to the Republican party establishment and has a large staff of scholars, received more than $17m in untraceable donations over the years, the record show. But relatively obscure organisations did not go overlooked. Levi Russell, spokesman for Americans for Prosperity, declined to comment on the importance of that support to the organisation.
Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks | Environment. Conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel nearly $120m (£77m) to more than 100 groups casting doubt about the science behind climate change, the Guardian has learned. The funds, doled out between 2002 and 2010, helped build a vast network of thinktanks and activist groups working to a single purpose: to redefine climate change from neutral scientific fact to a highly polarising "wedge issue" for hardcore conservatives. The millions were routed through two trusts, Donors Trust and the Donors Capital Fund, operating out of a generic town house in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC. Donors Capital caters to those making donations of $1m or more.
Whitney Ball, chief executive of the Donors Trust told the Guardian that her organisation assured wealthy donors that their funds would never by diverted to liberal causes. By definition that means none of the money is going to end up with groups like Greenpeace, she said. Telefónica - Press Office - News - Telefónica & Lisbon Council launch StartUp Europe Centre of Excellence. • StartUp Europe proposes 'hubs of innovation' to foster entrepreneurial spirit • Halting current 'brain drain' is crucial to Europe's future leadership in tech &innovation Brussels 2 October, 2012 Telefónica and the Lisbon Council – the Brussels-based think tank – today announced a three-year collaboration to establish StartUp Europe, a Centre of Excellence to develop and support entrepreneurship and drive job creation in the region.
As Europe faces its highest unemployment rate in more than two decades – and hitting today’s young adults particularly hard – StartUp Europe is being established to stem the current ‘brain drain’ of talent from the region and empower youth, technology and entrepreneurship. Telefónica and the Lisbon Council have identified that one of the key levers to reverse this trend is to fast-track the creation of 'hubs of innovation' that will encourage entrepreneurial spirit across and help the region regain its leadership in technology and innovation.
Telefónica. Telefónica, S.A. (Spanish pronunciation: [teleˈfonika]) is a Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider with operations in Europe, Asia, North America and South America,. Operating globally, it is the fifth-largest mobile network provider in the world. The company started as a public telecommunications company. Its head office is in the Distrito Telefónica in Madrid.[2][3] Telefónica is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) initiative (a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface, and has run pilot HbbTV services in Spain.[4] History[edit] Current operations[edit] A map highlighting Telefónica's global operations.
Telefónica operating countries Telefónica's partners and affiliates Europe[edit] Czech Republic[edit] The Lisbon Council. @lisboncouncil. Lisbon Council. Der Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal ist ein in Brüssel ansässiger Think Tank, der 2003 gegründet wurde. Die Organisation setzt sich für die Lissabon-Strategie der Europäischen Union ein und fokussiert sich auf Themen, wie z.
B. Bildung, Arbeit, nachhaltiges Wachstum und Innovation. Im Rahmen der sogenannten Founding Father Lecture Series geben politische und akademische Persönlichkeiten Reden zu bestimmten Themen, wie z. B. die Zukunft des europäischen Sozialmodells. Des Weiteren veröffentlicht der Lisbon Council Publikationen zu Bildungsthemen, wie z. B. den im März 2006 veröffentlichten Policy Brief „The economics of knowledge: Why education is key to Europe’s success“. Präsident der Organisation ist der seit über 25 Jahren in Europa lebende amerikanische Journalist Paul Hofheinz (ehemals Wall Street Journal).
Start-ups must turn the tide. 3 oktober 2012 - In response to the alarming unemployment rates among youths, telecom giant Telefónica and the Brussels’ think tank the Lisbon Council together announced a new initiative to halt the European ‘brain drain’ and quickly create ‘hubs of innovation’. At the presentation of the centre of excellence (called StartUp Europe), Andreas Schleicher of the OECD once more underlined the severity of youth unemployment and the changing demand for skills. Telefónica and the Lisbon Council identify 'fast-tracking the creation of 'hubs of innovation' as a key lever to reverse the negative trends.
Through encouraging entrepreneurial spirit across Europe they propose to help the region regain its leadership in technology and innovation. European Commissioner for Research, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn said: "Too often, we think of young people as lacking in skills and experience when, in fact, they can understand the new transformative technologies in a way that older people cannot. Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. Joeri van den Steenhoven vertrekt als voorzitter van Kennisland. Joeri van den Steenhoven vertrekt per 1 september a.s. als voorzitter van Stichting Nederland Kennisland. ”Twaalf jaar geleden heb ik Kennisland mede opgericht en sinds 2006 heb ik er als voorzitter leiding mogen geven. Nu is het voor mij tijd voor een nieuwe uitdaging.” Chris Sigaloff, de huidige vicevoorzitter, zal hem opvolgen. Stichting Nederland Kennisland is een onafhankelijke denktank die de Nederlandse kenniseconomie wil versterken. In 1999 werd Kennisland opgericht door Frans Nauta, Joeri van den Steenhoven en Bartjan Jansen.
Zij vonden dat het tijd was voor een nieuwe koers voor Nederland. Kennisland heeft er altijd hard aan gewerkt om haar visie in de praktijk te brengen. Joeri van den Steenhoven heeft vele vernieuwende projecten bedacht, ontwikkeld en uitgevoerd. Naast Kennisland is hij bestuurslid bij de Europese denktank Lisbon Council, lid van de Raad van Toezicht van het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten en lid van de Raad van Advies van Nuffic.
Stichting Nederland Kennisland homepage. @AntiThinkTanks. Organize and filter info in a way that turns the public agenda into a private business machine... Institutions that corrupt academic research for the purpose of empowering the corporate agenda. Major News Outlets Give Fossil-Fuel-Funded Think Tanks a Free Platform. Robert Bryce has written op-eds for several major newspapers—which have failed to mention that he works for the fossil-fuel-backed Manhattan Institute. Photograph of Robert Bryce: Larry D Moore / Wikimedia Commons; oil field: IRC / Shutterstock The fossil fuel industry has long been a source of talking points and "studies" aimed at spreading doubt about climate change, and over the past few years, it has broadened its scope to undermine support for clean energy, as well.
Often, this criticism is published in the form of articles in major media outlets—penned by employees of think tanks who don't disclose their groups' industry funding, a new study finds. The Checks and Balances Project, a pro-clean-energy watchdog group, surveyed stories published over the past five years in 60 news outlets, including national and regional newspapers, the Associated Press, and Politico. Other conservative think tanks have jumped in the clean-tech-bashing game, too. Romney University. Heard a thinktank on the BBC? You haven't heard the whole story | George Monbiot. Do the BBC's editorial guidelines count for anything? I ask because it disregards them every day, by failing to reveal the commercial interests of its contributors. Let me give you an example. On Thursday the Today programme covered the plain packaging of cigarettes. It interviewed Mark Littlewood, director-general of the Institute of Economic Affairs, an organisation that calls itself a thinktank.
Mishal Husain introduced Mark Littlewood as "the director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and a smoker himself". Fine. Both the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Institute have been funded by tobacco firms for years. Yet, as you can see from its lists, the institute's spokespeople appear all over the media, arguing against any regulations tobacco companies don't like, without ever being obliged to reveal that tobacco companies help pay their wages. Most of the so-called thinktanks flatly refuse to reveal their interests. I'm not the only one who sees them in this light.