Climate

How are polluting industries lobbying against real climate action?

Energy Charter Treaty versus Climate Urgency

01.03.2021

In this new episode of EU Watchdog Radio we dive into one of the biggest examples of ‘cognitive dissonance’ in recent history. Every (European) policymaker knows by now that fossil fuels should stay in the ground, but yet they keep defending the EU’s membership of a treaty that defends fossil fuel investments: the Energy Charter Treat (ECT).

Take action to end the climate-killing Energy Charter Treaty

23.02.2021

Take urgent action to end the climate-killing Energy Charter Treaty. Polluters can use it to sue governments that decide to keep coal, oil, and gas in the ground. Sign our petition to end the madness!

The Hydrogen Hype vs Climate

18.12.2020

In this year’s last episode of EU Watchdog Radio CEO-researcher and campaigner Belen Balanya, explains why and how hydrogen is being hyped as the new energy source in town, that will solve all our climate related problems. She also explains why this hydrogen hype is probably one of the biggest green washing examples in recent history.

Investor privileges (ISDS)

Busting myths around the Energy Charter Treaty

15.12.2020

Amidst growing concerns that the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) undermines urgent climate action, its corporate profiteers are spewing propaganda. Cut through the rhetoric with our myth-busting guide to the ECT.

Gas lobby

The hydrogen hype: Gas industry fairy tale or climate horror story?

07.12.2020

Our new report exposes the intense and concerted lobbying campaign by the gas industry to secure political, financial and regulatory support for its new climate ‘solution’: hydrogen from gas. While the EU claims the hydrogen economy will be ‘green’, industry has ensured that for the next few crucial decades it will be powered by polluting fossil fuels.

Black rocking the Green Deal

27.11.2020

‘Black rocking the European Green Deal’ is the title of this fourteenth episode, in which CEO researcher Kenneth Haar and Jana Leutner researcher at Change Finance, discuss the Blackrock scandal. Together they published a report called “The BlackRock Model”, in which they uncover the scale of the blunder of the European Commission by granting a contract to BlackRock to give advice on ‘sustainable finance’.

Other climate battles

The BlackRock Model

24.11.2020

The Commission ignored massive conflicts of interest when it hired the world’s biggest asset management fund to investigate the best way to make banking sustainable. “The BlackRock Model”, a report from CEO and Change Finance uncovers the scale of the blunder, and explains why the Commission needs to find a new approach to ‘sustainable finance’.

Fossil free politics

Polluters profiting from pandemic bailouts

05.10.2020

Fossil fuel interests have captured tens of billions of COVID-19 public recovery funds. New research by the Fossil Free Politics campaign reveals a massive lobbying effort by the fossil fuel industry to win concessions for climate-damaging energy schemes, to weaken environmental standards across Europe, and to water-down the EU Green Deal.

An EU Love Affair with Fossil Fuel

27.07.2020

In this tenth episode, German journalist Harald Schumann- co-founder of Investigative Europe, describes how and why many EU member states seem to still have a crush on fossil fuels.

EU Green Deal or Grey Deal?

15.07.2020

In this ninth episode, Belén Balanyá and Lala Hakuma Dadci both researcher and campaigner at Corporate Europe Observatory, take a step back and have a critical look at what is happening with the EU flagship project the EU Green Deal (EGD).

Other climate battles

Time to block BlackRock

09.07.2020

BlackRock is a major fossil fuel investor. So why has the European Commission given it a key role to provide paid advice on the crucial ‘sustainable finance’ dossier? Documents obtained by Corporate Europe Observatory show the Commission didn’t even consider the conflicts of interest.

EU Climate Bank - Greenwashing or Banking Revolution?

08.07.2020

In this eighth episode, Clara Bourgin, research and policy assistant at Counter Balance digs into the recent commitments taken by the Europe Investment Bank (EIB) – the lending arm of the European Union – to become the “EU Climate Bank”.