{"id":292125,"date":"2023-12-21T11:47:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T10:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=292125"},"modified":"2023-12-21T11:47:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T10:47:41","slug":"the-chinese-communist-party-linked-to-funding-for-climate-activists-in-the-us-and-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=292125","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese Communist Party linked to funding for climate activists in the US and UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By<\/strong> Jo Nova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The Chinese Communist Party just wants to save the Earth, right?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Even though China is the largest single user of fossil fuels on Earth, for some reason\u00a0The Energy Foundation<\/em>\u00a0China\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 an NGO dedicated to worrying about carbon emissions \u2014 spent nearly $4 million working on reducing US emissions instead of Sino ones. They also spent some\u00a0 undisclosed amount helping the\u00a0Grantham Research Institute in London<\/a>\u00a0last year. So we have donors in a developing country giving generously to the US and UK because the rich first world is too poor to fund their own environmental philanthropy groups, right?<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Energy Foundation China<\/a> (EFC) generously wants to help the US phase out coal and electrify their cars. But that\u2019s just the nice political power that the CCP is (the kind that also builds fortified islands in shipping lanes)<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CCP-Tied Group is Quietly Fueling US-Based Climate Initiatives: Tax Filings<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By Thomas Catenacci , Joe Schoffstall Fox News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A climate-focused nonprofit with significant operations in Beijing has wired millions of dollars to fund climate initiatives and environmental groups in the U.S., according to tax filings first obtained by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the Energy Foundation\u2019s financial filings indicate that the group is technically headquartered in San Francisco, a Fox News Digital review determined that the majority of its operations are conducted in China with a staff that boasts extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Its recently filed tax form show the group, which refers to itself as \u201cEnergy Foundation China,\u201d contributed $3.8 million to initiatives in the U.S. like phasing out coal and electrifying the transportation sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fox authors list several examples of how the EFC spends their money on climate policy activism. For example, the Chinese group gave $375,000 to the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) \u2014 a non-profit in the US that files legal challenges to stop oil pipelines, drilling, coal plants and other mining activities. The head of the NRDC says they get no money from China, and protests that the Energy Foundation is based in San Francisco, but the Fox authors explain that not only does the group lease office facilities in Beijing, but their CEO and President<\/a> used to be the deputy director general of China\u2019s National Centre for Climate Change Strategy. The program director of the EFC\u2019s \u201cindustry program\u201d spent eight years at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US Energy Foundation gave birth to the\u00a0Energy Foundation China<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n
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The Fox news article could have explained the relationship of the Energy Foundation<\/em> with the Energy Foundation China. <\/em>They are separate now, but for twenty years they were one and the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to InfluenceWatch<\/em>, the large, original Energy Foundation<\/a> was set up in the US in 1991. Later, in 1999, the Packard Foundation would help to set up Energy Foundation China<\/em><\/a>. In 2019 the Chinese branch officially split from the US larger group<\/a>, except it based its headquarters in San Francisco too (which seems odd if they are trying to influence China?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The parent US\u00a0\u201cEnergy Foundation\u201d<\/a>\u00a0is so huge it gave an amazing $52 million dollars (US) to groups around the world last year. Ponder that somehow the\u00a0Energy Foundation China<\/em>\u00a0was fully enmeshed as a part of that giant machine from 1999 to 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u2018A quintessential \u201cpass through\u201d for donors\u2026\u2019<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

InfluenceWatch<\/em><\/a> notes that way back in 2014, a US Senate committee already felt the Energy Foundation<\/em> was a conduit for donors to funnel money to left-wing activism without being easily traced:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A July 2014 report by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works\u2019 Republicans called the Energy Foundation \u201ca quintessential example of a pass through\u201d for donors who want to fund left-wing environmentalist activism while avoiding accountability for traceable connections to activist groups. The report also stated that the foundation, which cannot support political campaigns directly, transfers money to other groups that can thanks to loopholes in the tax code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More profits and power for China<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

China controls the rare metals market, builds the wind turbines and solar panels, and now also the EV\u2019s. Obviously, on a pure self-serving business level, the CCP would be crazy if they weren\u2019t amplifying Green fantasia in the West in order to sabotage the competition. And the idea of undermining energy security and the general industrial power base of the West might also appeal to CCP leaders. And hypothetically, if it did, what would stop it happening \u2014 <\/em>investigative reporting from The ABC or the BBC? As if.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related info:\u00a0Energy Foundation (US) Recent Grants<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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