Climate

How are polluting industries lobbying against real climate action?

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Can we trust financial institutions to manage climate change?

EU Watchdog Radio is a new podcast hosted jointly by CEO and Counter Balance. In the fifth episode, we talk with two experts from civil society organisations about the role of big financial institutions or companies in the economic recovery and Green Deal. Red line: there is enough money to finance climate proof and socially just change, but we need more scrutiny of how and where that money is being used.

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The logistics of globalisation: Is this the world you want?

EU Watchdog Radio is a new podcast hosted jointly by CEO and Counter Balance. In the third episode, Nicholas Hildyard, UK-based researcher and activist of NGO The Corner House, gives some fascinating insights in the world of logistics.

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Counter Balance - Challenging Public Investment Banks

EU Watchdog Radio is a new podcast hosted jointly by two Brussels based organisations Counter Balance (CB) and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO). In the very first episode Xavier Sol of Counter Balance discusses how the European Union is planning to finance the Green Deal.

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Fossil free politics

Croatia’s love affair with dirty energy

Council presidency sponsorship, high-profile events, new fossil fuel investments…. Corporate Europe Observatory turns a quizzical eye on the Croatian Government’s love affair with the fossil fuel industry.

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Corporate COP25: the biggest failure so far?

CEO spent a very busy two weeks at COP25 in Madrid in December, working with inspiring allies in the fight for climate justice and exposing the role of corporations in co-opting the UN climate talks and derailing the process.

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COP25 Bankrolled by Big Polluters

Some of Spain's biggest polluters are bankrolling COP25 in Madrid. See our new infographic and fact-file for more information.

Fossil Free Politics

Fossil free politics

Cut gas, oil and coal out of our politics!

For decades, fossil fuel companies and their lobbyists have denied science, and have delayed, weakened, and sabotaged climate action. They made billions in profits, while heating the planet and destroying communities. This stops now.

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Fossil free politics

Big Oil and Gas buying influence in Brussels

Since 2010, just five oil and gas corporations and their fossil fuel lobby groups have spent at least a quarter of a billion euros buying influence at the heart of European decision-making.

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We demand #FossilFreePolitics

189 organisations have joined CEO, Food and Water Europe, Friends of the Earth Europe and Greenpeace EU in signing an open letter to decision makers demanding the fossil fuel industry is cut out of politics.

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Who Owns All The Pipelines?

Why is the EU still building new and unnecessary gas pipelines and LNG terminals? Who’s pushing them and who’s profiting from them?

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Yara: Poisoning our soils, burning our planet

Fertilizer company Yara has been dubbed the Exxon of agriculture due to its thirst for fossil gas. This article looks at the many channels of influence used by Yara and its lobby network, specifically in the European Union (EU).

Flame 25th anniversary

Flame Conference

Read the CEO and Gastivists fact sheet on the 25th edition of FLAME, the gas industry conference jam-packed with the biggest climate criminals whose business model is based on destroying communities and the climate.

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