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How are polluting industries lobbying against real climate action?

EU Clean Industrial Deal in action

20.03.2025

Our new investigation reveals how fossil fuel giants have been lobbying to skew emission accounting models, allowing hydrogen made from fossil gas to be misleadingly labelled as 'clean’. This could pave the way towards billions in new subsidies for fossil fuel projects that exacerbate the climate crisis.

Gas lobby

We say No to the South H2 Corridor

17.03.2025

As the EU Energy Council meets to discuss energy security and ‘critical infrastructure,’ 87 organisations release a statement opposing the South H2 Corridor. The planned 3,300 km hydrogen pipeline from North Africa to Germany via Italy will serve corporate interests and hurt local communities.

Environment

The EU’s lobby league table

24.02.2025

Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl reveal the sheer corporate lobby firepower in the EU, analysed by sector. Big Tech, Energy, Banking, and Chemicals dominate.

Gas lobby

The scramble for hydrogen in South Africa

05.12.2024

Europe’s scramble for green hydrogen in South Africa will have a devastating impact on local communities, the very same ones whose voices are being ignored by EU policy makers.

Just how many fossil-fuel lobbyists did the EU take to COP29?

28.11.2024

COP29 in Baku, which finished last week, was crawling with fossil-fuel lobbyists determined to eke out profits for as long as possible. Shockingly, for a second year running, it is European governments that have facilitated access for a huge number of them.

Fossil fuel lobbyists eclipse delegations from most climate vulnerable nations at COP29 climate talks 

15.11.2024

At least 1773 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to COP29, underscoring an outsized polluter presence year after year at crucial climate talks, according to a new analysis from CEO, Corporate Accountability and Global Witness, from the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition.

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COP29 HyCOPrisy

11.11.2024

After pressuring Azerbaijan to up gas production for export, the EU is using COP29 to greenwash the fossil fuel and its own climate image.

Carbon capture doesn't work — yet the EU is going for it

11.10.2024

The fossil fuel industry, and its army of lobbyists, are keen to keep emissions burning — and business as usual — by capturing carbon. Sounds deceptively simple.

Gas lobby

The Carbon Coup revisited

09.10.2024

As the ICM Forum gears up to meet in Pau, France, 10-11 October, find out how the European Commission is allowing this close-knit club of the fossil fuel industry and other big polluters to shape key EU energy policy, greenwash and waste billions in public money to protect industry interests.

Fossil free politics

EU Ombudsman ruling shows gas industry advisory group not fit for purpose - time to scrap it?

20.09.2024

The European Ombudsman is “not convinced” at the excuses given by the EU Energy Platform to exclude non-corporate members from its controversial Industry Advisory Group (IAG), and calls on the Commission to “reassess” its mandate going forward as it is not “appropriate”.

Environment

EU civil society says "It's time to prioritise needs of people and the environment"

26.06.2024

As EU leaders meet at tomorrow's European Council summit, 120 civil society organisations demand they prioritise the needs of people and the environment, not corporate greed.

How a fossil-fuel-dominated group you’ve never heard of secured a ‘carbon coup’ in Europe

13.05.2024

What sounds like a better choice: pursuing rational climate policy in the face of an increasingly urgent crisis? Or giving a golden ticket to the fossil fuel industry to continue extracting oil and gas forever, no matter the cost?

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EU Clean Industrial Deal in action

We say No to the South H2 Corridor

The EU’s lobby league table

The scramble for hydrogen in South Africa

Just how many fossil-fuel lobbyists did the EU take to COP29?

Fossil fuel lobbyists eclipse delegations from most climate vulnerable nations at COP29 climate talks

COP29 HyCOPrisy

Carbon capture doesn't work — yet the EU is going for it

The Carbon Coup revisited

EU Ombudsman ruling shows gas industry advisory group not fit for purpose - time to scrap it?

EU civil society says "It's time to prioritise needs of people and the environment"

How a fossil-fuel-dominated group you’ve never heard of secured a ‘carbon coup’ in Europe

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