Fossil free politics

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”.

The European Gas Conference in Vienna was postponed in anticipation of climate-justice protests, but the industry agenda behind it is as dangerous as ever.

As COP28 came to an end in Dubai, members of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, including Corporate Europe Observatory, released a statement calling out the negotiating text and its loopholes.

Everything you need to know about the Qatargate scandal that rocked the European Parliament and the wider issues that this debacle raises.

Fossil fuel lobbyists attended UN climate talks more than 7000 times over the past 20 years as part of decades-long campaign to influence climate action. The findings are the tip of the iceberg and bolster the case to kick Big Polluters out of the talks on the eve of the COP28 Dubai talks.

Following a complaint from Corporate Europe Observatory and Food and Water Action Europe, the European Ombudsman has announced an inquiry into the European Commission's creation of the EU Energy Platform Advisory Group during the energy crisis response.

From Rome to Prague, Brussels to London, politicians are welcoming fossil fuel companies as advisers instead of arsonists, failing to recognise their vested interests and their role in creating, prolonging, and profiting from the energy crisis.

More than 100 organisations have joined the Fossil Free Politics call to overhaul our political system to ensure our decision makers work for the public good, not private corporations. This means removing the polluter's grip on our politics, and listen to and act on the solutions from trade unions, anti-poverty networks, social justice, climate groups and others.

Check out the new infographics that accompany the new People over Polluters Declaration from Fossil Free Politics.

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.

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.