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“If you like greenwashing clap your hands”

Proposed special rights for corporations in EU trade deals such as CETA and TTIP threaten to prevent the necessary energy transition to tackle climate change. Polluting corporations are already using the dangerous investor privileges in trade and investment deals to challenge progressive energy policies.

Comments on the European Commission's new Scientific Advice Mechanism by Corporate Europe Observatory and the Fondation Sciences Citoyennes

COP21 resembles a trade fair for dirty companies

The EU Emissions Trading System has failed to reduce emissions, but that hasn’t stopped the Commission from pushing other countries into using carbon markets.

The greenwashing of some of the world’s biggest polluters’ by lobbying consultancies is exposed in a new report

Hundreds of activists followed the public call for a peaceful action against the corporate greenwashing event “Solutions COP21”in Le Grande Palais. Marking the opening of the exposition on the fourth of December, the action denounced the false solutions peddled by industry in Paris during the COP21 climate talks with a creative act of civil disobedience. Watch the action video here and our Pascoe Sabido getting carried away (literally) here.

Leaked document shows EU ditch climate measures if they sideline trade orthodoxy.

Companies that profit from polluting and have a vested interest in the continued exploitation of fossil fuels have no place influencing talks designed to move us away from dirty energy.