Climate

How are polluting industries lobbying against real climate action?

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Fossil free politics

50 orgs say no to fossil fuel ally Hoekstra as EU Climate Commissioner.

50 organisations have signed an open letter to the coordinators of the European Parliament Environment Committee, calling on them to reject the nomination of Dutch fossil fuel ally Wopke Hoekstra as the new Climate Commissioner.

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Oil-linked group's EU influencing exposed

The Consumer Choice Center, a US oil-linked pressure group, is now the subject of a new complaint for untransparent and problematic lobbying.

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UN Climate treaty participants required to disclose industry ties

As the second week of UN climate talks near a close in Bonn, Germany, public-interest civil society groups and rightsholder constituencies secured an overdue victory with the first ever set of requirements for all participants in UNFCCC processes to have to disclose their affiliation prior to participation.

End fossil fuels now action at SB58 in Bonn

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New figures show Big Oil & Gas flooding UN climate talks since Paris Agreement

The Big 5 oil and gas majors have brought more than 400 lobbyists to the UN climate talks since the Paris Agreement was signed at COP21.

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UN climate talks

Transatlantic alliance of 130+ EU and US decision makers call to end fossil fuel influence at UN climate talks

An unprecedentedly large coalition of politicians from the US Congress and the EU Parliament call for an end to fossil fuel industry influence at the UN climate talks weeks before crucial negotiations.

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Will this be the last European Gas Conference?

The IPCC says the world is in the last-chance saloon, yet fossil-gas executives eye deals next week in Vienna at the European Gas Conference. Climate and cost of living activists have other ideas.

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Germany’s great hydrogen race

Our new report maps Germany’s 'brave new hydrogen world'. Which looks a lot like the old world: prolonging fossil fuel use and continuing its extractivist logic. We show who is driving the German – and thus EU – hydrogen hype, who benefits, and the negative impacts for prospective green hydrogen export countries.

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UN climate talks

The hydrogen COP

COP27 was dubbed the ‘gas COP’, with record-breaking numbers of fossil fuel lobbyists in attendance. However, much less attention was paid to how this could also have been called ‘hydrogen COP’, with a myriad of events and deals sealed by companies and governments, many with a focus on extracting resources from Africa.

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How the gas lobby is fuelling the cost-of-living crisis

A series of critical decisions on tax, energy infrastructure, and regulation have put fossil fuel industry profits above the interests of millions.

No more bankrolling climate action

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COP27: 90% of sponsors have fossil fuel ties

18 out of 20 COP27 sponsors directly support or partner with the fossil fuel industry, helping it to advance its climate-wrecking agenda.

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COP27: just Kick Big Polluters Out

Join us in the new episode of EU Watchdog Radio, where Pascoe Sabido talks to Aderonke Ige about the campaign Kick Big Polluters Out, and the absurd presence of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP27.

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COP27: 100 more fossil fuel lobbyists than last year

New research from CEO, Corporate Accountability and Global Witness shows there are more fossil fuel lobbyists than representatives of the ten nations most impacted by the climate crisis registered to attend COP27.

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