#UK DAILY MAIL CODE#

Mr Rose recently joined the ‘Daily Mail’ from its Sunday sister publication where he stacked up several ‘adverse adjudications’ from the feeble self-regulatory body, the Independent Press Standards Organisation, for breaches of the Editors’ Code of Practice. Mr Rose’s article on ‘’Useful idiots’ who let China off the hook’, was characteristically filled with his own muddle and confusion over climate change. On 15 November, it published an article by David Rose alongside its report on the outcome of the summit. Predictably, the newspaper followed up its misinformation before COP26 with more of the same after it. Ironically, Dr Lomborg’s bogus essay appeared alongside a leading article which declared “The Daily Mail has a long-standing and passionate commitment to protecting and nurturing the world we live in”. This represents about 45 per cent of the reduction needed to reach 33 billion tonnes by 2030 on a pathway that would have a 66 per cent chance of limiting the rise in global mean temperature to less than 1.8 Celsius degrees.

In fact, the most recent assessment by the United Nations Environment Programme found that the conditional NDCs would reduce annual global emissions from 64 to 50 billion tonnes by 2030 compared with the projection based on 2010 policies. His assertion that the current NDCs would only result in 1 per cent of the emissions cuts required to achieve the Agreement’s temperature goal is untrue. The Paris Agreement actually commits every country to the collective goal of “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2☌ above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5☌ above pre-industrial levels”.ĭr Lomborg has confused this with the “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs) that each country has submitted to the UNFCCC secretariat, including pledges on emissions levels by 2030. For instance, his article stated: “Even if every country did everything promised in the Paris agreement, the emission cuts by 2030 would add up to just 1 per cent of what would be needed to keep temperature rises under 2c”. Under the headline ‘The Great Ecological Delusion’, Dr Lomborg advertised his fatally flawed recent book, and offered readers some brand new claims that are demonstrably false. It is no surprise then that the ‘Daily Mail’ published an error-filled polemic by Bjorn Lomborg on 30 October, the eve of the opening of the 26 th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). For instance, in 2017, Wikipedia’s editors concluded that there is “established consensus that the Daily Mail was not a reliable source, and that its use in most Wikipedia articles was prohibited”.Īn annual survey about news consumption in the UK, which was carried out earlier this year by the broadcast regulator Ofcom, found that only 63 per cent of regular readers of the ‘Daily Mail’ and ‘The Mail on Sunday’ think that they are accurate, and only 62 per cent considered them to be “trustworthy”. Its coverage of climate change before and after COP26 has been no exception.Īlthough it is the most widely-read newspaper in the UK, the ‘Daily Mail’ has a reputation for publishing inaccurate and misleading information.

The ‘Daily Mail’ has a long track record of promoting climate change denial.

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