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CEO dished the dirt on the biggest climate criminals attending COP19 in Warsaw to an audience of young climate activists in town to try and tip the balance in favour of genuine climate solutions. The next agreed step was an action brainstorm to see how to take the messages into the streets and into COP19.

November 11-22 in Warsaw, Poland, the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP19) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place. A statement by over 135 groups, networks and movements from all over the world denounces the EU agenda of expanding carbon markets and the corporate capture of the climate talks by the same companies that stand to profit.

A new report released today by ALTER-EU, AK EUROPA and ÖGB Europabüro shows the Commission is doing just that, putting big business in charge of its advisory groups despite promising MEPs reform over a year ago after they froze groups' budgets.

In mid-October, the New York Times published one of the most important investigations this year into EU lobbying, exposing important facts about a little-known aspect of corporate lobbying in Brussels: the lobbying by a dozen or more international law firms, m

ALTER-EU has launched a new urgent action: shine a spotlight on the lobby capital of Europe by demanding full EU lobby transparency now. Join ALTER-EU to demand that the 20,000 lobbyists in Brussels are properly regulated.

Welcome to our mini-series of exposés, looking behind the greenwash to reveal the dirty underbelly of the climate criminals asked to sponsor this winter's UN climate talks in Poland, COP19. First up: the world's largest steel and mining company, with emissions greater than the whole of the Czech Republic, ArcelorMittal.

New report shows over half of the 209 scientists sitting on the EU food safety agency's panels have direct or indirect ties with the industries they are meant to regulate.

In this open letter CEO warns against a corporate attack on the precautionary principle. It asks Mrs Anne Glover to stick to her transparency commitments and request the industry to publish in full some toxicologic studies which are of crucial importance for public health.

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