Commission and Big Energy keep cooking the climate, despite Paris Agreement
New research shows some of Europe's dirtiest energy companies still have highly privileged access to the European Commission, despite the global agreement to tackle climate change.
08.06.2016
It's almost six months since EU Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete claimed to have negotiated an historic global deal to tackle climate change at COP21in Paris. The 3 May also marked a year and a half of Cañete being in the job. However, he and his his boss, Vice President of the Commission Maros Šefčovič, continue to give privileged access to fossil fuel players trashing the climate, who have enjoyed eight meetings to every one involving renewable energy or energy efficiency interests since the Paris deal was signed. Rather than a change of direction, it's business as usual for the