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Ficha técnica

Fundador:

Sir Antony Fisher

Conocido por la frase: «Litter The World With Free-Market Think-Tanks»

Año de fundación:

1971

Presidente:

Julian Morris

Autor de los libros Global Warming: Apocalypse or Hot Air (con Roger Bates, 1994); Global Warming: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom (1997) y Sustainable Development: Promoting Progress or Perpetuating Poverty (2002), entre otros.
Vicepresidente de investigación de la Reason Foundation
Miembro del consejo de distintos think-tanks conservadores
Miembro del consejo editorial de la revista negacionista de apariencia académica Energy and Environment
Se hace llamar doctor (PhD) pero, según se afirma, no lo es.
Antes en el Institute of Economic Affairs

Negacionistas climáticos de referencia:

Roger Bate
Julian Morris
Kendra Okonski
Philip Stott

Relacionados con la Sustainable Development Network (SDN), el Institute of Economic Affairs y el European Science and Environment Forum

Sede actual:

Londres
Washington (misma dirección que el Competitive Enterprise Institute)

Misión declarada:

IPN aims to empower individuals and promote respect for people and property in order to eliminate poverty, improve human health and protect the environment. IPN promotes public awareness of the importance of this vision for all people, both rich and poor. IPN seeks to achieve its vision by promoting the role of market institutions in certain key international policy debates: sustainable development, health, and globalisation and trade. IPN works with academics, think tanks, journalists and policymakers on every continent.

Orientación religiosa:

Desconocida o inexistente

Orientación económica:

Ultraliberal

Agencias de PR:

DCI Group
White House Writers’ Group

Medios de comunicación:

Adapt or Die (2003) – Kendra Okonski
Environment and Health (2004) – Kendra Okonski

Posicionamiento negacionista climático:

Dos posiciones contradictorias:

El cambio climático es una «mentira»
Los esfuerzos para mitigar el cambio climático son un despilfarro. Aboga por dejarlo que se produzca y adaptarse a él.

Otros negacionismos:

DDT
Económico

Actividades:

Agresiva campaña contra el Protocolo de Kioto
Privatización del agua
En 2001 organizó una jornada bajo el título Global warming – a European myth
Publica sitios web que aparentan pertenecer a ONG, como la SDN o la «Campaign for Fighting Diseases»

Notas:

Antes: The Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Puede ser vista como la versión británica de la Atlas Foundation

Miembros

Action Research Community Health (India)
Africa Fighting Malaria
Africa Freedom Network
Africa Resource Bank
Association for Liberal Thinking (Turquía)
Bazaar Chintan, India
Centre for Civil Society (India)
Centre for the New Europe (Bélgica)
Centro de Divulgación del Conocimiento Económico (Venezuala)
Centro Interdisciplinar de Ética e Economia Personalista (Brasil)
Copenhagen Institute (Dinamarca)
Cordell Hull Institute (EE.UU)
Eudoxa (Suecia)
European Science and Environment Forum (Bélgica)
Foundation for Democracy in Africa,. Washington
Free Market Foundation, South Africa
Fundación DL, Colombia
Fundación Libertad, Democracia y Desarrollo, Bolivia
Institute of Economic Affairs (Gran Bretaña)
Institute of Public Affairs (Australia)
Institute of Public Policy Analysis (Nigeria)
Instituto de Libre Empresa (Perú)
Inter Region Economic Network (Kenya)
Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis (Kenya)
Libertad y Desarrollo (Chile)
Liberty Institute (India)
Making Our Economy Right (Bangladesh)
Montreal Economic Institute (Canadá)
Open Republic Insitute (Irlanda)
Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (India)
Tech Central Station
Timbro (Suecia)
World Growth

Origen de la financiación documentada:

ExxonMobil Foundation: $295.000 (datos 2006)
Una tabaquera no identificada: ₤10.000

Otros:

Pfizer
Microsoft
Monsanto

Fuentes

Referencias

George Monbiot et al (2005) – Time to speak up for climate change science – Nature 434:559 doi:10.1038/434559a – Published online: 31/03/2005 –  – http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7033/full/434559a.html – 5 authors «Lobby groups such as the Scientific Alliance and the International Policy Network have sprung up to offer climate ‘sceptics’ to the media. In the United Kingdom, the BBC appears incapable of hosting a discussion on climate change without letting one of these people claim that it is not happening … As environmental campaigners, we would like to ask climate scientists everywhere: why are we being left to carry the can? We’re not asking you to become campaigners or to compromise your independence. But we wish you would defend your profession as any other professionals would. This includes training people in media relations, sending eminent delegations to meet editors and senior journalists, writing letters to the papers to correct misleading articles and seeking every opportunity to put the record straight.»

Corporate Europe Observatory (2006) – Brussels think tanks persist in funding secrecy. ExxonMobil covertly funds EU climate skeptics – Corporate Europe – http://archive.corporateeurope.org/ThinkTankSurvey2006.html
“The results of a new survey undertaken by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), demonstrates that, despite increased calls for the financial transparency of EU think tanks, secrecy prevails … In Europe, ExxonMobil Worldwide Giving Reports show, the company has in previous years provided funds at least to the International Policy Network, the Centre for The New Europe, TCSDaily.com (formerly known as Tech Central Station) and the International Council for Capital Formation, the latter three are based in Brussels, and all are ardent opponents of the EU’s efforts to combat climate change.”

Greenpeace USA Research Department (2007) – ExxonMobil’s Continued Funding of Global Warming Denial Industry – Greenpeace – http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/assets/binaries/exxon-secrets-analysis-of-fun
“IPN Environment Program Director Kendra Okonski argued in a March 2006 critique of the Stern Report that “it is clear that attempting to control climate change through global regulation of emissions or by government fiat more generally would be harmful and counterproductive.” …and suggests adaptation as t he only reasonable approach, noting that… “ Adaptation should be understood as containing all possibilities in the realm of private, voluntary action – and eliminating government-imposed hindrances and obstacles to such action.”[PDF] IPN also criticized the latest IPCC report as “Alarmist claims,” and trumpeted the “Independent” summary from the Fraser Institute, one of IPN’s fellow members in the newly formed Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change (formed in February 2007).”

Anne Landman – Oil Money Funds Climate Deniers and Attacks on Climate Scientists – PR Watch, 07/02/2010 – http://www.prwatch.org/node/8892
“The multinational energy company ExxonMobil has given hundreds of thousands of British pounds in grants to free-market, anti-climate change think-tanks to wage a coordinated, orchestrated campaign against climate change science, and undermine public acceptance of the idea that global warming has a man-made component. The campaign includes attacks against scientists who support the idea that climate change in man-made. Funding has gone to groups like the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the U.S., and the International Policy Network in the United Kingdom, which have organized international seminars that pulled together climate change deniers from around the world.”

Jonathan Owen and Paul Bignell – Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers – The Independent, 07/02/2010 – http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/thinktanks-take-oil-money-and-use-it-to-fund-climate-deniers-1891747.html
“Free-market, anti-climate change think-tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the US and the International Policy Network in the UK have received grants totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company ExxonMobil. Both organisations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe.”

Kate Sheppard – Exxon Still Sponsoring Deniers  – Mother Jones, 10/02/2010 – http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/02/climate-denial-still-brought-you-exxonmobil
“Free-market, anti-climate change think-tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the US and the International Policy Network in the UK have received grants totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company ExxonMobil. Both organisations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe.”

David Cronin – Secrecy over funding for climate deniers  – David Cronin, 03/10/2010 – http://dvcronin.blogspot.com/2010/10/secrecy-over-funding-for-climate.html
“Between 2003 and 2006, the IPN’s North American office received 390,000 dollars from the energy giant ExxonMobil but Morris says that the network no longer takes such donations. Stating that the IPN’s annual income is around 1.4 million dollars, he [Julian Morris] added: «Our top donors are private individuals. We receive no money from companies or other organisations directly involved in the fossil fuels industry. This has been true for the past three years.”

Christian – Analysing the ‘900 papers supporting climate scepticism’: 9 out of top 10 authors linked to ExxonMobil – Carbon Brief, 15/04/2011 – http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2011/04/900-papers-supporting-climate-scepticism-exxon-links
“Once you crunch the numbers, however, you find a good proportion of this new list is made up of a small network of individuals who co-author papers and share funding ties to the oil industry. There are numerous other names on the list with links to oil-industry funded climate sceptic think-tanks, including more from the International Policy Network (IPN) and the Marshall Institute.”

George Monbiot – Think of a Tank – The Guardian, 13/09/2011 – http://www.monbiot.com/2011/09/12/think-of-a-tank/
“Three of the groups I contacted – Right to Know, the International Policy Network and Nurses for Reform – did not answer my calls or emails. Six others refused to give me any useful information. They are the Institute of Economic Affairs, Policy Exchange, the Adam Smith Institute, the TaxPayers’ Alliance, the Global Warming Policy Foundation and the Christian Medical Fellowship. They produced similar excuses, mostly concerning the need to protect the privacy of their donors. My view is that if you pay for influence, you should be accountable for it. Nul points. Civitas did fractionally better, scoring 1. Its website names a small number of the donors to its schools(13), but it would not reveal the amount they had given or the identity of anyone else. The only rightwing thinktank that did well was Reform, which sent me a list of its biggest corporate donors: Lloyds (£50k), Novo Nordisk (£48k), Sky (£42k), General Electric (£41k) and Danone (£40k). Reform lists its other corporate sponsors in its annual review(14), and earns 4 points. If they can do it, why can’t the others? The progressives were more accountable.”

George Monbiot – How corporations have hijacked the climate change debate – The Age, 27/09/2006 – http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/how-corporations-have-hijacked-the-climate-change-debate/2006/09/26/1159036541719.html
“The book’s editor, Roger Bate, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute — which has received $US1.6 million from ExxonMobil — and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has received $US2 million. Until 2003, he was Morris’ predecessor as head of IPN. When the book was written, he ran the European Science and Environment Forum (Esef), which published What Risk?. The registered owner of Esef’s website is Morris. He claims he had nothing to do with Esef, and registered the name «as a favour to a friend». The investigative group PRWatch alleges that Esef was originally called Scientists for Sound Public Policy (SSPP), and was founded by a public relations agency working for the tobacco company Philip Morris.”

George Monbiot – Smoke in our eyes – The Guardian, 27/09/2006 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/sep/27/post437/print
“The second is to stop describing them as «thinktanks». This is unfair and partial. When, for example, someone from Friends of the Earth – which is rightly described as a «campaigning organisation» or a «pressure group» – is up against someone from the International Policy Network, which is described as a «thinktank» or an «educational charity», the person from the IPN looks like the more objective commentator, even though he is the one with a direct financial interest in the outcome of the discussion (IPN, for example, which argues that we should not seek to reduce our carbon emissions, has received $295,000 from Exxon). I think a better description would be «lobby group» or «corporate-funded campaigning group».”

Julian Morris – Economic Freedom the Key to Surviving Catastrophe – The Australian, 27/08/2010 – International Policy Network – http://www.policynetwork.net/development/media/economic-freedom-key-surviving-catastrophe
«Such blocking events are rare and there is no evidence of links with global warming. However, an explanation has been proposed by Mike Lockwood, an astrophysicist at the University of Reading in Britain, who shows in a recent paper that blocking events in winter are related primarily to solar activity. However, he said in an email to me that he «cannot say much (yet) about summer conditions as most of our work to date has been on wintertime». So the culprit is quite possibly the sun, not human emissions of greenhouse gases … Instead of relying on foreign aid, governments of poor countries should remove these barriers to enterprise. Then next time they are struck by a natural disaster, people will be better able to cope, and fewer will suffer and die.»

Adhil Patel – International Policy Network and Dr Julian Morris – Indymedia, 21/10/2005 – http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/10/326181.html
«Another fake NGO is the «Sustainable Development Network», nominally run by Kendra Okonski, a prolific anti-environmentalist, and again operating out of the same premises. The SDN has argued the global warming is not happening and says we should not eat organic food. «