CEO's campaign on climate and energy challenges the corporate capture of decision-making on climate policies both at the EU and UN level. Corporate lobbying has resulted in a combination of weak CO2 reduction measures, the dominance of carbon trading and other dangerous pseudo-solutions such as agrofuels and nuclear energy, allowing large corporations to continue emitting and profiting from a new market.
Mermaid’s anger grows
While some corporate climate lobby groups have in public lamented the failure of the UN climate talks in Copenhagen to reach a strong agreement, behind closed doors, many of them are relieved. Indeed, if there was any attempt to agree meaningful action on climate change in Copenhagen, a number of big business players had been working hard to prevent it. This article looks at the corporate lobbyists who were nominated for the Angry Mermaid Award ahead of Copenhagen – and asks what they achieved.
The Angry Mermaid Award Winner is...
The winner of the Angry Mermaid Award is announced by Naomi Klein
EU Money for CCS Lobby in Copenhagen
The Zero Emissions Platform (ZEP) – an EU-based fossil fuel industry group funded, in part, by the European tax payer – is one of the many groups attending the UN climate talks in Copenhagen. During the Summit, it will hold an event at the Danish National Museum on “the vital role Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) must play in any final agreement on climate change