Fund Lobby Admits to Masquerade

The agrofuels industry has presented itself as offering an environmental solution to lowering carbon emissions and has depended on heavy subsidies to survive. However, serious questions about pushing up food prices, land grabbing, deforestation and a net increase in carbon emissions are being deflected by an agrofuels industry keen to maintain subsidies and to avoid a reduction in usage targets. As the European Parliament this week plans to vote on the Commission's proposed amendments to its agrofuels policy, we look at the range of lobby strategies the industry is employing against the amendments, from front groups and trips abroad for MEPs to scientific disinformation.

The European Union (EU) and their national governments are set to discuss increased shale gas extraction in Europe which will increase environmental and social harm as well as dangerous climate change. Under the rhetoric of boosting growth, productivity and employment, lays the intention of furthering fossil fuel extraction including shale gas.

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Finance sector lobbyists are pushing the European Commission to block tighter regulation of the EU’s carbon market, a new report from Corporate Europe Observatory and Carbon Trade Watch, published today, reveals.