Thiel, Johnson, Vivek, Farage, Peterson - UK Conference "Glastonbury" For Climate Liars And Right-Wing Authoritarians

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage have been announced as speakers at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference later this month alongside close allies of President Donald Trump and his anti-climate agenda, DeSmog can reveal. ARC is a network of influential right-wing figures from across the world, and the group claims that its conference in London will “work to re-lay the foundations of civilisation”.

The Conservative and Reform UK leaders will be speaking alongside individuals who have called climate change a “hoax”, have said that global warming “is probably doing good”, and have called climate activists “eco fascists”. ARC is backed by the UAE-based investment firm Legatum Group and British hedge fund millionaire Paul Marshall, who together own the right-wing broadcaster GB News. Marshall provided £1 million in funding to ARC in 2023, which is run by Conservative peer and UK government advisor Baroness Stroud. ARC is fronted by Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, who has said that climate change is a “scam”.

Badenoch and Farage will be speaking alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, who recently helped to set up Trump’s new U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) until he was sidelined by DOGE chief and Trump mega-donor Elon Musk. They will be joined by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, new U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, tech founder and 2016 Trump donor Peter Thiel, and Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, the group behind the radical ‘Project 2025’ blueprint for a second Trump term.

Badenoch and Farage have both vocally opposed climate policies in recent times. The Reform UK leader has said that the goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 should be scrapped, while the Conservative premier has called herself a “net zero sceptic”. “This is like Glastonbury for climate science deniers, Trump acolytes, manosphere enthusiasts and nihilists in general,” Good Law Project campaigns manager Hannah Greer told DeSmog. “But the serious point is that some of the people that Paul Marshall has assembled in this right-wing rogues gallery have huge amounts of money and power over our media, medical data and the future of our planet – and they are set on creating a new oligarchy.”

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https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/04/kemi-badenoch-nigel-farage-speak-alliance-for-responsible-citizenship-climate-denial/