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One of the last hot topics in the European Parliament before the 2014 elections is a new set of rules on seeds marketing. This text is extremely important for all players in the food chain: seed savers, farmers and the seed industry of course, but also environmentalists, consumers and the agro-industry at large. The European Parliament has appointed a rapporteur on the issue, Italian MEP Sergio Silvestris (EPP) who is now co-hosting a dinner event with the European Seed Association (ESA), the seed industry's lobby group in Brussels.

COP19, which followed the horror of typhoon Yolanda devastating the Philippines, is ignoring the crucial questions – how are we going to leave fossils fuel in the ground? How do we ensure a just transition? How do we make sure the North pays its climate debt to the South? The UNFCCC was meant to be the forum to discuss all this and find way forwards. However, lack of political will and the capitulation to corporate pressure is preventing this from happening.

At the end of week one of the UN's 19th climate conference, and after thousands of people have today marched through Warsaw demanding real, just, effective and ambitious climate action, we take a look back at some of the polluters' propaganda events that have been happening inside, and outside, COP19.

CEO responds to the Commission's positive picture of its handling of revolving doors cases and conflicts of interest. Can the Commission afford to be quite so complacent?

Youth at this year’s UN climate talks, fed-up with the unprecedented levels of corporate capture of the negotiations, held a mock-auction to sell off the climate to the highest bidder.

A total of 10,281 people have signed an online petition (across several websites) which was delivered today, urging MEPs to stand up for lobbying transparency in the European Union by supporting the transition to a mandatory lobby register.

IKEA, a last minute “partner” to the UNFCCC climate talks in Warsaw, COP19, has its logo plastered all over the National Stadium in Warsaw. Alongside the logos of the other corporate partners to the climate talks – from fossil fuel companies to aviation, automobile and heavy industries - an exclusive club of climate crooks providing services to the Polish organisers of the COP, in return for a fabulous greenwashing opportunity. But what are the the climate credentials of the Polish government's latest partner in crime?

New report published by CEO and TNI, a 32-page guide to the web of corporate lobbying and industry capture of COP19, the yearly UN climate negotiations, taking place in Warsaw, 11-22 November 2013. The guide exposes the eleven official corporate partners of the conference, takes a look at some of the other influential Polish lobbies, and examines an extensive list of the lobby groups attending the COP. It also covers the false solutions that are being offered up by these corporate lobbies, such as shale gas, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon markets.

Youth organisations from around the world have sent an ultimatum to Christiana Figueres, head of the UN's climate change body, the UNFCCC: you can only attend the annual youth convergence that takes place before the official climate talks if you don't attend the industry-organised International Coal and Climate Summit.