Don't let dirty energy hijack the UN climate talks!
Help CEO raise €3000 to challenge dirty energy at COP20
Corporate Europe Observatory needs to raise €3000 to challenge dirty energy corporations who are trying to hijack the UN climate negotiations this December in Lima (COP 20), building a strong voice to carry through 2015 when governments meet again for the crucial talks in Paris. Some of the most polluting corporations and their lobby groups are trying to prevent governments from endorsing effective climate action and instead promoting false solutions like dirty coal and carbon markets. We need your donations, however big or small, to help us sound the alarm around the Lima conference as well as afterwards by combining investigative research with on-the-ground campaigning and awareness raising.
The latest climate science is unequivocal: our ever-rising emissions mean that without taking serious action, we're heading for climate chaos. But despite this, progress in the UN climate talks towards genuine solutions is moving backwards. Lobbying at the national, regional and international level has seen the dirty energy industry succeed in promoting damaging policies like carbon markets and 'cleaner' fossil fuels as real solutions to climate change, when all the evidence shows they're increasing emissions and allowing climate criminals to continue polluting the atmosphere as before.
Last year was bad, but our voice is getting louder
Thanks to your contributions, at last years UN talks in Warsaw CEO exposed just how captured the UNFCCC has become, with oil, gas coal and car corporations all sponsoring the talks. In response, more than 800 civil society activists walked out in protest with the slogan on our chests reading 'polluters talk, we walk'. Corporate capture became one of the defining issues, although the battle is just beginning. Next year in Paris governments will meet again to sign a new global climate deal, and polluting corporations are already trying to shape it. If we want ambitious and equitable climate policies, then we need to keep dirty energy industry as far away as possible from those who decide. The World Health Organisation did it with the tobacco industry, and CEO and allies have been calling for the same to happen for climate. So Lima will be a key opportunity in building grass roots support and challenging the grip of corporations over climate policy.
What we need your help for
CEO wants to expose how some of the worst climate criminals – particularly European corporations operating in Latin America – are shaping the policies and positions of the European Commission and the UN, seriously threatening our climate and the lives of local communities. With your help, we can collaborate with groups in Latin America to produce new research showing just that. As last year in Warsaw, we also want to be on the ground, working with local activists and campaigners, including climate justice youth, to build a strong civil society voice rejecting corporate capture both inside and outside COP 20. And as well as running workshops and helping local groups expose corporate capture in their country, we will also be revealing new facts about dirty industry and its political allies found out during COP 20 in Lima through a blog series.
Meeting the goal of this donation call would cover the costs of investigating, publishing and presenting our reports in Lima, as well as sending someone over to work with grass-roots groups to help build our voice against the corporate hijacking of the UN climate talks.
Thank you in advance for your support in helping fight false solutions to climate change,
The CEO team
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