Gas lobby

As the ICM Forum gears up to meet in Pau, France, 10-11 October, find out how the European Commission is allowing this close-knit club of the fossil fuel industry and other big polluters to shape key EU energy policy, greenwash and waste billions in public money to protect industry interests.

The CCUS Forum, a little known event with no legitimacy and filled to the brim with fossil fuel polluters has largely been steering regulation and public funding for a risky, costly, and repeatedly failed techno-fix, Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage.

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.

Despite the hailed deal to “transition away from fossil fuels”, the 2023 UN climate summit’s text has the oily fingerprints of the fossil fuel lobby all over it. COP28 is more likely to facilitate a fossil fuel frenzy by cementing false solutions.

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.

The EU and the COP28 summit host, the United Arab Emirates, in cahoots with Big Oil & Gas and global consultancies, have laid the groundwork for a hydrogen boost at the summit. A powerful smokescreen that could extend – and even increase – the use of fossil fuels.

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.

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.

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

New infographics by CEO and WeSmellGas expose the dark side of the EU’s hydrogen craze – and the firepower of the corporate giants driving it. The EU is hyping hydrogen as the miracle that will cure our fossil fuel addiction. The truth is dirtier.

EU and member state decision-makers need to agree robust new rules to get the chemicals industry in line and paying its way in full.

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.