Int'l Policy Network ipn

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=<a href="https://www.myjoyonline.com/opinion/imani-16-some-foundational-stories/">https://www.myjoyonline.com/opinion/imani-16-some-foundational-stories/</a>I chose IMANI because I needed an African name that resonated with my aspirations and faith in Africa. By the way, do remember that by end 2005, IMANI had had so much global media footprint, thanks to Linda Whetstone, Julian Morris Kendra Okonski Jo Kwong Brad Lips and Colleen Dyble Nick Slepko. Alejandro Antonio Chafuen. Tom Palmer!=<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/think-tanks-take-oil-money-and-use-it-to-fund-climate-deniers-1891747.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/think-tanks-take-oil-money-and-use-it-to-fund-climate-deniers-1891747.html</a>2/10<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts claimed last night.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">The attack against scientists supportive of the idea of man-made climate change has grown in ferocity since the leak of thousands of documents on the subject from the University of East Anglia (UEA) on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit last December.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">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.<div id="thirdparty01" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="article-im-prompt" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many of these critics have broadcast material from the leaked UEA emails to undermine climate change predictions and to highlight errors in claims that the Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035. Professor Phil Jones, who has temporarily stood down as director of UEA's climactic research unit, is reported in today's Sunday Times to have "several times" considered suicide. He also drew parallels between his case and that of Dr David Kelly, found dead in the wake of the row over the alleged "sexing up" of intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Professor Jones said he was taking sleeping pills and beta-blockers and had received two death threats in the past week alone.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate sceptic bloggers broadcast stories last week casting doubts on scientific data predicting dramatic loss of the Amazon rainforest. All three stories, picked up by mainstream media, questioned the credibility of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the way it does its work. A new attack on climate science, already dubbed "Seagate" by sceptics, relating to claims that more than half the Netherlands is in danger of being submerged under rising sea levels, is likely to be at the centre of the newest skirmish in coming weeks.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">The controversies have shaken the IPCC, whose chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, was subjected to a series of personal attacks on his reputation and lifestyle last week. A poll this weekend confirmed that public confidence in the climate change consensus has been shaken: one in four Britons – 25 per cent – now say they do not believe in global warming; previously this figure stood at 15 per cent.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">Professor Bob Watson, the chief scientific adviser to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and former chairman of the IPCC, said yesterday that the backlash is the result of a campaign: "It does appear that there's a concerted effort by a number of sceptics to undermine the credibility of the evidence behind human-induced climate change." He added: "I am sure there are some sceptics who may well be funded by the private sector to try to cast uncertainty."<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">A complicated web of relationships revolves around a number of right-wing think-tanks around the world that dispute the threats of climate change. ExxonMobil is a key player behind the scenes, having donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past few years to climate change sceptics. The Atlas Foundation, created by the late Sir Anthony Fisher (founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs), received more than $100,000 in 2008 from ExxonMobil, according to the oil company's reports.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">Atlas has supported more than 30 other foreign think-tanks that espouse climate change scepticism, and co-sponsored a meeting of the world's leading climate sceptics in New York last March. Called "Global Warming: Was It Ever Really a Crisis?", it was organised by the Heartland Institute – a group that described the event as "the world's largest-ever gathering of global warming sceptics". The organisation is another right-wing think-tank to have benefited from funding given by ExxonMobil in recent years.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">A large British contingent was present at the event, with speakers including Dr Benny Peiser, from Lord Lawson's climate sceptic think-tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF); the botanist David Bellamy; Julian Morris and Kendra Okonski from the London-based International Policy Network; the weather forecaster Piers Corbyn; Christopher Monckton, a former policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher; and Professor David Henderson, a member of GWPF's advisory council. Speakers at the event also included two prominent climate bloggers who associate with Paul Dennis, a 54-year-old climate researcher at the University of East Anglia who has been questioned by police investigating the theft of climate data.<div id="thirdparty02" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ad-perform js-ad-placeholder js-ad-placeholder--perform" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a posting on the blog of the climate sceptic Andrew Montford on Friday, Mr Dennis insisted: "I did not leak any files, data, emails or any other material. I have no idea how the files were released or who was behind it."<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">But he confirmed that he had been in email contact with Stephen McIntyre, who runs climateaudit.org – a site that was one of the first to receive an anonymous link to the original leaked data from UEA.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Dennis said he emailed Mr McIntyre to alert him to a "departmental email saying that emails and files were hacked" and that "police had copies of my email correspondence with Steve McIntyre and Jeff Id [a pseudonym for the climate sceptic Patrick Condon]. They said it was because I had sent the emails that they were interviewing me."<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">The UEA researcher also has connections with another prominent sceptic, Anthony Watts, with whom he has posted and who spoke beside Mr McIntyre. Mr Dennis was not available for comment.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bob Ward, the policy director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics, said: "A lot of the climate sceptic arguments are being made by people with demonstrable right-wing ideology which is based on opposition to any environmental regulation of the market, and they are clearly being given money that allows them to disseminate their views more widely than would be the case if they didn't have oil company funding."<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">But Dr Richard North, a climate change sceptic and blogger, rejected claims of a conspiracy as "laughable" and denied having any links to vested interests. "Anybody who knows me knows I'm a loner. Nobody tells me what to do or dictates my agenda."<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: baseline;">ExxonMobil said in a statement: "We have the same concerns as people everywhere – and that is how to provide the world with the energy it needs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions."

The International Policy Network (IPN) is a corporate-funded campaigning group <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/george_monbiot/2006/09/post_437.html">[1]</a> based in the UK set up in 2001. It originally had offices around the world in the USA, Chile <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020529212716/http://policynetwork.net/">[2]</a> and India <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021111111035/http://www.policynetwork.net/">[3]</a>. By 2003 all of the offices had closed down apart from the London one. (It is based in an office in Bedford Chambers in King Street, Covent Garden, London.)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#cite_note-0">[1]</a>

You can find a statement of the guiding principles of the IPN in their own words at <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.policynetwork.net/main/content.php?content_id=43&printer_friendly=1">[4]</a>.

The IPN is connected with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/White_House_Writers_Group" title="White House Writers Group">White House Writers Group</a>, a for-profit corporate lobbying company (the senior director<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.whwg.com/thefirm/WritersBio.cfm?StaffId=24">[5]</a> at the White House Writers Group is also a trustee of the IPN).

The great majority of the IPN's income from donations is from corporations: in both 2003 and 2004 the proportion was about 85%.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#endnote_ipnAccounts2004">[6]</a>.

The UK branch disbanded in June 2011, with former chairman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Linda_Whetstone" title="Linda Whetstone">Linda Whetstone</a> leaving the group.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-change-sceptic-think-tank-shuts-down-2300529.html">[7]</a>

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#Origins">1 Origins</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#Issues">2 Issues</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#The_IPN_on_Climate_Change">3 The IPN on Climate Change</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#How_the_IPN_describes_itself">4 How the IPN describes itself</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#Failure_of_the_the_IPN">5 Failure of the the IPN</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#Links_to_other_organisations">6 Links to other organisations</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#Funding">7 Funding</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#Staff">8 Staff</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#Trustees">9 Trustees</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#Previous_Staff">10 Previous Staff</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#Members">11 Members</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#SourceWatch_Resources">12 SourceWatch Resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#External_links">13 External links</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#IPN_publications">13.1 IPN publications</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#References">14 References</a></li>

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<h2>Origins</h2>

In 2001 the name was changed to the IPN and it expanded its operations with significant corporate funding. Its international Directors then were <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roger_Bate" title="Roger Bate">Roger Bate</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Julian_Morris" title="Julian Morris">Julian Morris</a>, two people who have spear-headed the pro-corporate, anti-environmental debate for over a decade in the UK, whilst supporting controversial industries. Bate co-founded the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/European_Science_and_Environment_Forum" title="European Science and Environment Forum">European Science and Environment Forum</a> in 1994, which arose from the concept for a pro-biotech / tobacco, chemical industry <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_group" title="Front group" class="mw-redirect">front group</a> in Europe funded by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philip_Morris" title="Philip Morris" class="mw-redirect">Philip Morris</a>. He also solicited money of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tobacco_industry" title="Tobacco industry">tobacco industry</a> for a book on risk and smoking, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Julian_Morris" title="Julian Morris">Julian Morris</a> was a witness for the GM industry <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Life_Sciences_Network&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Life Sciences Network (page does not exist)">Life Sciences Network</a> at the GM Commission in New Zealand. Some unknown industry / industries are now funding ESEF / IPN to counter the environmental movement on a global scale.

Crypto:

It also funds and has set up the websites of certain "partner "organisations which have all the appearances of being African or Asian NGOs, but seem little more than satellite front organisations whose true identity is also hidden. In 2004 it received funding from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Exxon" title="Exxon" class="mw-redirect">Exxon</a> to work on climate and a book was published by the IPN edited by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kendra_Okonski" title="Kendra Okonski">Kendra Okonski</a>. Okonski and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Julian_Morris" title="Julian Morris">Julian Morris</a> still deny climate change and the need for any action. Writing last month Morris wrote "There are no solid grounds for assuming, as Messrs Blair and Howard do, that global warming demands immediate and far-reaching action".

Okonski is a long-time libertarian activist and daughter of a US lumber industrialist. Okonski has a history of counter-protests against progressive and environmental organisations. She organised the pro-farmers counter-protests at the WSSD. She also co-founded and managed the website <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Counterprotest.net&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Counterprotest.net (page does not exist)">counterprotest.net</a> and organised the Washington-area 'Walk for Capitalism' in 2001. Okonski still remains the contact for the "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sustainable_Development_Network" title="Sustainable Development Network">Sustainable Development Network</a>", another guise of the IPN. Okonski also has set up a number of websites of IPN's affiliates organisations that raises questions about their true independence. What you have here is a first world corporate front organisation setting up websites for so-called third world organisations, who then attack western environmentalists for being Imperialists. These include

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Public_Policy_Analysis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Institute of Public Policy Analysis (page does not exist)">Institute of Public Policy Analysis</a> - Nigeria</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Inter_Region_Economic_Network&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Inter Region Economic Network (page does not exist)">Inter Region Economic Network</a> (IREN) Kenya</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Liberty_Institute" title="Liberty Institute">Liberty Institute</a> - India</li>

<li>The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alternate_Solutions_Institute" title="Alternate Solutions Institute">Alternate Solutions Institute</a>, Pakistan.</li>

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<h2>Issues</h2>

The IPN lists its areas of interest as:

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<li>Sustainable Development & the Environment</li>

<li>Health</li>

<li>Free Trade and Globalisation</li>

<li>Technology</li>

<li>Economics</li>

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The IPN is currently running a technology campaign, apparently to promote the use of software patents in Europe. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ipntechnology.org/ip.php">[8]</a>

It has also become involved in international pharmaceutical issues, seeking to defend the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pharmaceutical_industry" title="Pharmaceutical industry">pharmaceutical industry</a> from claims that it ignores the diseases of the developing world in favour of the more profitable lifestyle diseases of wealthy countries. Most of this work is conducted by its front group the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Campaign_for_Fighting_Diseases" title="Campaign for Fighting Diseases">Campaign for Fighting Diseases</a>.

IPN is promoting privatization of water systems in third world countries, recently presenting their work at an American Enterprise Institute symposium on "Water Scarcity" in Washington DC on 3/22/06 broadcast on CSPAN. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.aei.org/events/eventID.1275,filter.all/event_detail.asp">[9]</a>

<h2>The IPN on Climate Change</h2>

In 2001, the IPN held a seminar on "Global warming - a European myth" <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.policynetwork.net/main/press_release.php?pr_id=41">[10]</a> by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philip_Stott" title="Philip Stott">Philip Stott</a> who says that global warming is a "lie" <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.marklynas.org/wind/document/11.html">[11]</a>.

IPN's executive director, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Julian_Morris" title="Julian Morris">Julian Morris</a>, told the BBC:

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<dd>"There are basically 3 groups that benefit from the global warming myth: government, scientists and environmentalists. Environmentalists benefit because they are able to present a scary scenario to the general public, and because of their desire to maintain revenues scary scenarios are good business for them, it means the general public are more likely to give them money." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.open2.net/truthwillout/globalwarming/global_morris.htm">[12]</a></dd>

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Journalist Mark Lynas says:

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<dd>The policy network's "partners" around the world include <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tech_Central_Station" title="Tech Central Station">Tech Central Station</a> (funded by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect">ExxonMobil</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_Motors" title="General Motors" class="mw-redirect">General Motors</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/McDonald%27s" title="McDonald's">McDonald's</a>) and the Cambridge-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/European_Science_and_Environment_Forum" title="European Science and Environment Forum">European Science and Environment Forum</a>, an anti-environmentalist group originally set up for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philip_Morris" title="Philip Morris" class="mw-redirect">Philip Morris</a> tobacco company by a PR firm. Julian Morris often accuses environmentalists of inventing the global warming "myth" in order to generate cash." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.marklynas.org/wind/document/11.html">[13]</a></dd>

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In November 2004, the IPN published a report claiming that climate change modellers were exaggerating the potential dangers of climate change:

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<dd>"Climate modellers differ from aircraft engineers in another way: whereas most aircraft engineers are employed by the private sector and are rewarded according to the usefulness of their designs to the travelling public, climate modellers are funded primarily by governments, and are rewarded according to the extent to which their models are useful to politicians and their entourage. Since politicians seem more willing to fund research when the outcome might give them an excuse to impose regulations and/or taxes, we cannot be surprised that the modellers have responded to these incentives by generating models that exaggerate the impact of humanity’s impact on the climate."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#endnote_ipnClimateChangeReport">[14]</a></dd>

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Around the same time, The Observer reported that:

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<dd>"Last week, the network's director Julian Morris attacked Britain's highly respected chief scientist. 'David King is an embarrassment to himself and an embarrassment to his country.' He criticised preparations by Tony Blair to use his presidency of the world's most powerful nations next year to lead attempts in tackling climate change. Morris described Blair's plans to use his G8 tenure to halt global warming as 'offensive'." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#endnote_observer28Nov04">[15]</a></dd>

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The same Observer article noted that IPN had received $50,000 from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect">ExxonMobil</a>, which "list[ed] the donation as part of its 'climate change outreach' programme." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#endnote_observer28Nov04">[16]</a> ExxonMobil also gave $115,000 to the IPN in 2004. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108">[17]</a>

The director of the IPN was attacked in the House of Commons for the fact that its view on climate change happens to concur with that of one of its major funders. Norman Baker MP said: "We may be able to deduce from the comments of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Julian_Morris" title="Julian Morris">Julian Morris</a> that there is an ulterior motive behind his denial of climate change." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2005-02-08.1353.1&s=julian+morris#g1355.1">[18]</a>.

<h2>How the IPN describes itself</h2>

The IPN describes itself on its web site at <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.policynetwork.net/main/content.php?content_id=1&printer_friendly=1">[19]</a>

The IPN has been criticised for calling itself a thinktank. According to George Monbiot, writing in the Guardian, the BBC should:

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<dd>"stop describing [IPN and similar] 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"." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/george_monbiot/2006/09/post_437.html">[20]</a></dd>

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<h2>Failure of the the IPN</h2>

The IPN has been criticised for taking money from corporations and then producing counterproductive work:

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<dd>"IPN gets almost no positive press coverage, most politicians have never heard of it, and no one takes it seriously. The only coverage it gets attacks it for being unethical. Journalists see through its “research”, dropping IPN’s press releases in the wastebasket for recycling because they are so transparently corporate propaganda." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.order-order.com/2006/10/who-will-win-wonk-whores-journalism.html">[21]</a></dd>

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<h2>Links to other organisations</h2>

As well as supporting a variety of think-tanks, the IPN has particularly close links with the following groups:

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlas_Economic_Research_Foundation" title="Atlas Economic Research Foundation">Atlas Economic Research Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_of_Economic_Affairs" title="Institute of Economic Affairs">Institute of Economic Affairs</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stockholm_Network" title="Stockholm Network">Stockholm Network</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a></li>

</ul>

Historically, the IPN can be seen as a UK-based version of the Atlas Foundation. It was founded by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Antony_Fisher" title="Antony Fisher">Antony Fisher</a> in the UK as the International Institute for Economic Research (IIER) in 1971.

Fisher went on to found the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Atlas_Economic_Research_Foundation" title="Atlas Economic Research Foundation">Atlas Economic Research Foundation</a> in the USA in 1981, and from this point the IIER traded as Atlas Foundation UK. The organisation underwent a further rebranding in 2001, when its income increased 60-fold and it changed its working name to IPN (it is still officially registered as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (UK)). In the USA, the Atlas Foundation also provides training and funding to start libertarian think-tanks. Fisher also went on to found the influential <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Economic_Affairs" title="Institute for Economic Affairs" class="mw-redirect">Institute for Economic Affairs</a> (IEA), a classical liberal <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect">think tank</a> based in London.

The director of the IPN is <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Julian_Morris" title="Julian Morris">Julian Morris</a>, who once worked for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roger_Bate" title="Roger Bate">Roger Bate</a> at the IEA. Bate is also a fellow at the Washington-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> (CEI), a leading anti-environmental think tank, where another staff member, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kendra_Okonski" title="Kendra Okonski">Kendra Okonski</a> also used to work. Indeed, the addresses and switchboard number for the CEI and the US office of the IPN used to be identical. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2003Q1/gm.html">[22]</a> IPN later moved down the hall to Suite 1032 and acquired its own phone and fax numbers. ce 2005]

The IPN is also linked, via its staff and web hosting arrangements, to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sustainable_Development_Network" title="Sustainable Development Network">Sustainable Development Network</a>. This is a coalition formed in 2001, just in time for the world summit on sustainable development, to back the pro-industry agenda. The coalition includes the US-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AgBio_World_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="AgBio World Foundation (page does not exist)">AgBio World Foundation</a>, run by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=C.S._Prakash&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="C.S. Prakash (page does not exist)">C.S. Prakash</a>.

<h2>Funding</h2>

The site ExxonSecrets.org reports the following corporate donations to IPN:

2003

$50,000 ExxonMobil Foundation Climate Change Outreach Source: ExxonMobil 2003 Worldwide Giving Report<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#cite_note-1">[2]</a>

2004

$115,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving

Climate Change

Source: ExxonMobil 2004 Worldwide Giving Report<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#cite_note-2">[3]</a>

2005

$130,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving

Source: ExxonMobil 2005 Worldwide Giving Report<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#cite_note-3">[4]</a>

2006

$95,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving

Source: ExxonMobil 2006 Worldwide Giving Report <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#cite_note-4">[5]</a>

<h2>Staff</h2>

(Listed on website)

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Julian_Morris" title="Julian Morris">Julian Morris</a>, Director</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stephen_Weller&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stephen Weller (page does not exist)">Stephen Weller</a>, Director of Communications</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kendra_Okonski" title="Kendra Okonski">Kendra Okonski</a>, Sustainable Development Director</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philip_Stevens" title="Philip Stevens">Philip Stevens</a>, Director of Health Projects</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nicole_Gray_Conchar" title="Nicole Gray Conchar">Nicole Gray Conchar</a>, Development Director</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stephanie_Drnasin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stephanie Drnasin (page does not exist)">Stephanie Drnasin</a>, Office Manager</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alec_van_Gelder&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alec van Gelder (page does not exist)">Alec van Gelder</a>, Research Fellow</li>

</ul>

<h2>Trustees</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Linda_Whetstone" title="Linda Whetstone">Linda Whetstone</a> (Chairman)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Boyd&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Boyd (page does not exist)">Robert Boyd</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Blundell" title="John Blundell">John Blundell</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bridgett_Wagner" title="Bridgett Wagner">Bridgett Wagner</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lawrence_Reed" title="Lawrence Reed">Lawrence Reed</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Daniel_Oliver&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daniel Oliver (page does not exist)">Daniel Oliver</a></li>

</ul>

<h2>Previous Staff</h2>

(prior to 2001 re-branding)

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roger_Bate" title="Roger Bate">Roger Bate</a>, Director</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Julian_Morris" title="Julian Morris">Julian Morris</a>, Director</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Blundell" title="John Blundell">John Blundell</a>, Trustee</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Margalit_Edelman" title="Margalit Edelman">Margalit Edelman</a>, Media Director</li>

<li>Philippa Jeffery, Coordinator</li>

<li>Marcia Leighton, Coordinator</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Damian_Nixon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Damian Nixon (page does not exist)">Damian Nixon</a>, Assistant Media Director</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Laurence_Reed&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Laurence Reed (page does not exist)">Laurence Reed</a>, Trustee</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bridgett_Wagner" title="Bridgett Wagner">Bridgett Wagner</a>, Trustee</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Linda_Whetstone" title="Linda Whetstone">Linda Whetstone</a>, Chairman of Trustees</li>

</ul>

<h2>Members</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Inter-Region_Economic_Network&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Inter-Region Economic Network (page does not exist)">Inter-Region Economic Network</a>, Kenya</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Free_Market_Foundation" title="Free Market Foundation">Free Market Foundation</a>, South Africa</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Africa_Freedom_Network&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Africa Freedom Network (page does not exist)">Africa Freedom Network</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Africa_Fighting_Malaria" title="Africa Fighting Malaria">Africa Fighting Malaria</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Africa_Resource_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Africa Resource Bank (page does not exist)">Africa Resource Bank</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bazaar_Chintan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bazaar Chintan (page does not exist)">Bazaar Chintan</a>, India</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Foundation_for_Democracy_in_Africa" title="Foundation for Democracy in Africa">Foundation for Democracy in Africa</a>,. Washington</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenya_Institute_of_Public_Policy_Research_and_Analysis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis (page does not exist)">Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Society_for_Research_and_Initiatives_for_Sustainable_Technologies_and_Institutions&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (page does not exist)">Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions</a>, India</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Action_Research_Community_Health&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Action Research Community Health (page does not exist)">Action Research Community Health</a>, India</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_of_Public_Affairs" title="Institute of Public Affairs">Institute of Public Affairs</a>, Australia</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Making_Our_Economy_Right&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Making Our Economy Right (page does not exist)">Making Our Economy Right</a>, Bangladesh</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Open_Republic_Insitute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Open Republic Insitute (page does not exist)">Open Republic Insitute</a>, Ireland</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Association_for_Liberal_Thinking&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Association for Liberal Thinking (page does not exist)">Association for Liberal Thinking</a> (Liberal Dï¿½şï¿½nce Dergisi), Turkey</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Centre_for_the_New_Europe" title="Centre for the New Europe">Centre for the New Europe</a>, Belgium</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eudoxa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eudoxa (page does not exist)">Eudoxa</a>, Sweden</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Timbro&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Timbro (page does not exist)">Timbro</a>, Sweden</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Copenhagen_Institute" title="Copenhagen Institute">Copenhagen Institute</a>, Denmark</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Liberty_Institute" title="Liberty Institute">Liberty Institute</a>, India</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Centre_for_Civil_Society" title="Centre for Civil Society">Centre for Civil Society</a>, India</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/European_Science_and_Environment_Forum" title="European Science and Environment Forum">European Science and Environment Forum</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tech_Central_Station" title="Tech Central Station">Tech Central Station</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenya_Institute_of_Public_Policy_Research_and_and_Analysis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and and Analysis (page does not exist)">Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and and Analysis</a> (KIPPRA)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Montreal_Economic_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Montreal Economic Institute (page does not exist)">Montreal Economic Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Www.worldgrowth.org&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Www.worldgrowth.org (page does not exist)">www.worldgrowth.org</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Centro_de_Divulgacion_del_Conocimiento_Economico&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Centro de Divulgacion del Conocimiento Economico (page does not exist)">Centro de Divulgacion del Conocimiento Economico</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Venezuala&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Venezuala (page does not exist)">Venezuala</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Centro_Interdisciplinar_de_Etica_e_Economia_Personalista&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Centro Interdisciplinar de Etica e Economia Personalista (page does not exist)">Centro Interdisciplinar de Etica e Economia Personalista</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fundacion_DL&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fundacion DL (page does not exist)">Fundacion DL</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Libertad_y_Desarrollo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Libertad y Desarrollo (page does not exist)">Libertad y Desarrollo</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fundacion_Libertad_Democracia_y_Desarrollo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fundacion Libertad Democracia y Desarrollo (page does not exist)">Fundacion Libertad Democracia y Desarrollo</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Instituto_de_Libre_Empresa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Instituto de Libre Empresa (page does not exist)">Instituto de Libre Empresa</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cordell_Hull_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cordell Hull Institute (page does not exist)">Cordell Hull Institute</a>, USA</li>

</ul>

<h2>SourceWatch Resources</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tanks" title="Think tanks">Think tanks</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" class="mw-redirect">ExxonMobil</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Electronic_Journal_of_Sustainable_Development" title="Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development">Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development</a></li>

</ul>

<h2>External links</h2>

<ul>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.policynetwork.net/">IPN Website</a></li>

<li><cite id="endnote_observer28Nov04" style=" font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#ref_observer28Nov04">^{</a></cite>&nbsp};Antony Barnett and Mark Townsend, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1361276,00.html">Greenhouse effect 'may benefit man': Claims by think-tank outrage eco-groups</a>", The Observer (UK), November 28, 2004.</li>

<li>Jonathan Matthews, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=14741">Monsanto's Fake Parade</a>", December 11, 2002</li>

<li>Andy Rowell and Bob Burton, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2003Q1/gm.html">Rising Rhetoric on Genetically Modified Crops</a>", PR Watch, Vol. 10 No. 1, October 2003</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/10/326181.html">International Policy Network and Dr Julian Morris</a></li>

<li>Paul Staines, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/2267/9/">You want policy? In cash?</a>, The Times, December 20, 2005.</li>

<li><cite id="endnote_ipnAccounts2004" style=" font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#ref_ipnAccounts2004">^{</a></cite> "}<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/registeredcharities/ScannedAccounts/Ends82%5C0000262982_AC_20041231_E_C.pdf">The International Policy Network UK - Report and Financial Statements</a>" (787KB PDF), UK Charity Commission, year ending 31 December 2004.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/registeredcharities/ScannedAccounts/Ends82%5C0000262982_ac_20081231_e_c.pdf">[2008 Accounts</a>]</li>

<li>George Monbiot, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1881021,00.html">Pundits who contest climate change should tell us who is paying them:</a> Covert lobbying, in the UK as well as the US, has severely set back efforts to combat the world's biggest problem", Guardian (UK), September 26, 2006.</li>

<li>Carbon Brief Profile<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2011/03/new-profile-the-international-policy-network">[23]</a></li>

</ul>

<h3>IPN publications</h3>

<ul>

<li><cite id="endnote_ipnClimateChangeReport" style=" font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#ref_ipnClimateChangeReport">^{</a></cite> "}<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.policynetwork.net/uploaded/pdf/IPN_impacts_report_embargoed.pdf">The impacts of climate change: An appraisal for the future</a>" (1.8MB PDF), November 9, 2004.</li>

</ul>

Note: The International Policy Network has disputed the accuracy and fairness of a previous version of this article: its rebuttal <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.policynetwork.net/uploaded/pdf/sourcewatch-IPN.pdf">can be found here</a> (78KB PDF).

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<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.policynetwork.net/main/content.php?content_id=4">International Policy Network website</a>, undated, accessed March 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#cite_ref-1">↑</a> ExxonMobil <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=download&d=4389">Worldwide Giving Report</a> (pdf) Public Information and Policy Research, 2003, at page 43</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#cite_ref-2">↑</a> ExxonMobil <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=download&d=4380">Exxon Mobil Corporation 2004 Worldwide Contributions and Community Investments Public Information and Policy Research</a>, (pdf) at Page 5</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#cite_ref-3">↑</a> ExxonMobil <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=download&d=4387">Public Information and Policy Research: 2005 Worldwide Giving Report</a>, (pdf) at Page 3</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/International_Policy_Network#cite_ref-4">↑</a> ExxonMobil <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=download&d=4381">Exxon Mobil Corporation 2006 Contributions and Community Investments"!</a>, at Page 4</li>

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1001 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 1032 (formerly1250) Washington DC 20036 USA

Phone: 202-331-1010

Fax: 202-331-0640

Established in 2001, the North American branch of the UK-based International Policy Network works closely with groups such as the Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, and Competitive Enterprise Institute.

IPN maintains a network of free-market think tanks around the world and supports the development of new organizations. Roger Bate and Julian Morris, IPN's directors, both work for the Institute for Economic Affairs in London. Bate is also a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), where another IPN staff member, Kendra Okonski used to work. Disinfopedia reports that in 2003 the address and phone number for CEI and the US office of the IPN were identical. IPN has apparently moved down the hall to Suite 1032 and acquired its own phone number. (http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=International_Policy_Network)

<h3>KEY QUOTES</h3>

9 March, 2004

"True leadership entails admitting mistakes. If the European Union were to abandon its desperate pursuit of Kyoto, it could lead the global community into new discussions to develop cost-effective policies to deal with climate change. A plethora of schemes could work: investments in flood controls, incentives to invest in new agricultural technologies and technology transfer to countries such as India and China, where populaces rely on dirty wood and dung and industry relies on dirty coal, meaning that their future emissions will far outweigh Europe's reductions."

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src3">"Kyoto: Costly and regressive," Financial Times, 3/9/04</a>

23 April, 2004

"According to the IPN report, the IPCC, which meets next week in Geneva (28-30 May 2004), appears to have intentionally exaggerated its estimates of temperature increases by using highly implausible scenarios of future growth in emissions of greenhouse gases. The IPCC uses sloppy assumptions for its estimates of economic growth and the technologies that are likely to be available in years to come. Worse, the IPCC's reports are used as justification for taking actions, such as the Kyoto Protocol, that will have little or no effect on our climate, but will deeply affect our economic, social and environmental development."

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src4">IPN Press Release 4/23/04</a>

<h3>KEY DEEDS</h3>

23 April, 2004

Published a paper entitled "Climate change predictions: bad economics, bad science," by Martin Agerup. The paper criticized the scientific methodology used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

1 December, 2003

Published the book "Adapt or Die: The science, politics and economics of climate change". Edited by IPN's Kendra Okonski, the book argues that humans should adapt to climate change, rather than trying to prevent or stop it.

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<h3>FUNDING</h3>

International Policy Network - North America has received $390,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.

2003

$50,000 ExxonMobil Foundation

Climate Change Outreach

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src1">ExxonMobil 2003 Worldwide Giving Report</a>

2004

$115,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving

Climate Change

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src5">ExxonMobil 2004 Worldwide Giving Report</a>

2005

$130,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src6">ExxonMobil 2005 Worldwide Giving Report</a>

2006

$95,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src7">ExxonMobil 2006 Worldwide Giving Report</a>

<h3>KEY PEOPLE</h3>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1057">Julian Morris</a>

Director

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=230">Roger Bate</a>

Fellow & former Director

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src0">P.R. Watch's Disinfopedia</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=5">Robert C. Balling Jr.</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1352">Kendra Okonski</a>

Environment Programme Director

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src8">Kendra Okonski - Sourcewatch</a>

<h3>PEOPLE</h3>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1059">Stephanie Drnasin</a>

Coordinator

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=169">Linda Whetstone</a>

Chairman, Board of Trustees

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1060">Martin Agerup</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1061">Zafar H. Anjum</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1062">Richard Tren</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=807">Indur M. Goklany</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1063">Stuart Buck</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1065">Andrew Kenny</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1066">Martin Livermore</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1067">Barun S. Mitra</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1068">Benny Peiser</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=421">Paul Reiter</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1069">Dominic Standish</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1031">Carlo Stagnaro</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=847">Bruce Yandle</a>

Contributing Writer

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=108#src2">International Policy Network website 4/04</a>

<h3>SOURCES</h3>

<a id="src" name="src"> </a><a id="src0" name="src0"> </a>P.R. Watch's Disinfopedia

"a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests." Run by P.R. Watch (John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton).

<a href="http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Disinfopedia">http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Disinfopedia</a>

<a id="src1" name="src1"> </a>ExxonMobil 2003 Worldwide Giving Report

Public Information and Policy Research

<a href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4389">http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4389</a>

<a id="src2" name="src2"> </a>International Policy Network website 4/04

<a href="http://www.policynetwork.net">http://www.policynetwork.net</a>

<a id="src3" name="src3"> </a>"Kyoto: Costly and regressive," Financial Times, 3/9/04

Letter to the Editor by Kendra Olonski of IPN

<a href="http://www.policynetwork.net/article.php?ID=590">http://www.policynetwork.net/article.php?ID=590</a>

<a id="src4" name="src4"> </a>IPN Press Release 4/23/04

"Climate Change Body Faces Criticism for Bad Economics, Bad Science"

<a href="http://www.policynetwork.net/article.php?ID=597">http://www.policynetwork.net/article.php?ID=597</a>

<a id="src5" name="src5"> </a>ExxonMobil 2004 Worldwide Giving Report

2004 Worldwide Contributions and Community Investments Public Information and Policy Research

<a href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4380">http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4380</a>

<a id="src6" name="src6"> </a>ExxonMobil 2005 Worldwide Giving Report

Public Information and Policy Research

<a href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4387">http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4387</a>

<a id="src7" name="src7"> </a>ExxonMobil 2006 Worldwide Giving Report

Public Information and Policy Research downloaded from Exxon website

<a href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4381">http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=view&d=4381</a>

<a id="src8" name="src8"> </a>Kendra Okonski - Sourcewatch

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kendra_Okonski">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kendra_Okonski</a>

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