🔥Really big news from the UN climate talks 🔥
They've announced the mandatory public disclosure of all attendees - whether governments, industry or NGOs.
It's been a hard slog, but this is a first step towards a robust conflict of interest framework ✊🏽
No more lies!
Activists disrupt
@eni
event during
#COP26
in solidarity with communities in Cabo Delgado where the Italian oil + gas giant is displacing communities and creating a war zone. They tried to claim they were climate leaders 🤣😭
MAKE THEM PAY: Climate activists block the
@wbcsd
's swanky COP26 dinner on
#LossAndDamage
. The WBCSD is a massive fossil fuel lobby group that has brought
@Shell
and
@bp_plc
into
#COP26
. Make Big Polluters Pay!
Inside the UN climate talks people are demanding that the Big Polluters are made to pay for the damage they've caused. They demand climate repartations.
#makethempay
#COP25Madrid
HAPPENING NOW: led by indigenous and global South communities lead a massive disruptive action inside
#COP25
demanding climate justice and that blocking government's
#stepuppay
Just finished our
#COP26
Toxic Tour of Glasgow, exposing its colonial past and its present day big polluters keeping that legacy going through plundering of resources and destruction of local lives and livelihoods. Huge thank you to all involved!
Amazing work! Last night's
#EuropeanGasConference
gala dinner got disrupted by activists calling out the neocolonial gas deals as a disaster for struggling families. We won't let them bury their heads in the sand. We see you. We're coming for you!
Today, I am introducing an amendment to the Governments Lobbying Bill that limits fossil fuel lobbyists interactions with politicians and would prevent them from participating in public expert and advisory bodies and from organising events on Gov premises.
#ExxonKnew
Psssst...🤫 I'm on a covert mission with the
@gastivists
+
@TDegaz
projecting images of methane leaks onto the side of a
#gas
fired power plant in Brussels. Follow the thread to find out why 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
NEW RESEARCH:
@ExxonMobil
spent >€35m since 2010 on lobbying to weaken + delay EU climate action.
This bought them:
💰 A web of lobby groups
💰 An army of lobbyists
💰 Privileged access to EU decision-makers
#ExxonKnewEU
#ExxonKnew
#PollutersOut
LIVE: huge projection onto a gas fired power station outside Brussels. The Belgian government plans to build another on this site, which is completely incompatible with keeping temperatures to 1.5c.
#CleanGasIsADirtyLie
#TimesUpforGas
Activists call for an immediate moratorium on fossil fuel investments at
#COP24
- People's Demands being heard inside the halls of power. They're incompatible with the current demands of Big Polluters who are writing the
#ParisRulebook
😱😱😱 We're organising a UN-aurhorised protest against UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak's finance greenwashing speech... but the UK govt has asked for it to be banned! A crude attempt to silence criticism!
@UNFCCC
@RishiSunak
@COP26
@COP26_Coalition
Listening to
@bp_UK
&
@GazpromEN
at
#COP26
tell us how fossil fuels will still be essential in the future. Maybe they didn't get the memo about 1.5c? Or maybe they shouldn't be in these talks!
#PollutersOut
"El mundo despertó. The world has woken up" declares the banner at the start of the
#ClimateMarch
in
#Madrid
. Doing it for Chile and the people there who woke up and decided enough was enough after 30 years of neoliberalism, inequality and suffering.
#ChileDesperto
Early morning stroll through Vienna. Hundreds heading to the European Gas Conference to shut it down and stop the
#gaslobby
politician bankster love-in.
Follow for updates
#blockgas
La grosse entreprise energetique,
@EngieBelgium
, va recevoir 1 milliard d'euros de subventions pour construire deux centrales de gaz. On n'a pas besoin ni de gaz ni d'Engie !
"Carbon removals are a cool thing" - opening words from EU Commission at
@shell
's event promiting carbon removals.
Exactly why Shell organised the event. So decision makers lend them credibility. Great opportunity to lobby and get their message heard.
#stayawayfromshell
We're on day 2/3 of the
#EuropeanGasConference
in
#Vienna
. We've already had:
❌ The conference blockaded
🪧 A banner drop from
@GreenpeaceAT
❌ Refinery of main sponsor
@OMV
blockaded
So what's the conference and why are we trying to block it?
🧵 A thread 1/X
#BlockGas
And it begins! The opening plenary of the
#PowertothePeople
conference in Vienna, proposing a bottom up alternative to the
#gaslobby
's current neoliberal fossil fueled neo-colonial energy model (the same model one we're disrupting at the European Gas Conference!)
#blockgas
I'm at the
@Shell
event on carbon removals in Brussels. Moderated by
@SonjavanRenssen
from Energy Monitor, who say they're about the low carbon transition. So why are they lending their credibility to Shell? I'll be tweeting live
Austria wants to put a €40 climate tax on short-haul flights but EU Commission says it goes against the single market and 'pricing freedom' for airlines.
Invoking the single market is a key industry tool to block progressive legislation.
Scandalous!
🧐 guess who's representing Norwegian oil+gas major
@Equinor
at
#COP26
?
Ex-UK Secretary of State, Amber Rudd! So she can meet all her old colleagues and make sure Equinor is firmly at the table.
We need to close the
#RevolvingDoor
#fossilfreepolitics
Europe's new thirst for
#fossilgas
and
#hydrogen
means new neocolonial deals across the African continent, sacrificing lives, livelihoods and the climate to extract resources. Activists from
@DontGasAfrica
are at the front of the demo making the message clear!
#blockgas
BREAKING: European Parliament votes in favour of 🇪🇺 tackling "vested and conflicting interests" at upcoming
#UN
climate talks,
#COP24
.
#PollutersOut
See Amendment 85, Resolution on the 2018 UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland (COP24)
The most polluting company in Spain, coal and gas utility
@Endesa
, is sponsoring
#COP25
. In the first day of the climate talks it's bought the front pages of all the biggest dailies presenting itself as a climate champion!
La empresa más contaminante de España patrocina la
#COP25
y en el primer día de la
#CumbreDelClima
ha comprado las portadas de todos los grandes diarios.
Early start at UN climate talks, as youth activists call out polluting countries protecting
#fossilfuels
industry participation in the negotiations. EU, US, NZ, Oz, Norway, we need a
#conflictofinterest
policy, not fossil fuel interference.
#PollutersOut
#sb50bonn
LEAK: documents show major polluters trying to water down UN climate report.
Japan & Australia (both in bed with the
#coal
&
#gas
lobby) are trying to slow the phaseout of
#fossilfuels
.
2 weeks until
#COP26
. Expect more of the same.
#FossilFreePolitics
Head of
@CANIntl
Tasneem Essop makes a rousing speech to call on the Egyptian
#COP27
Presidency designate to ensure meaningful civil society participation through affordable accommodation not 5* hotel prices. And not turning the talks into a corporate money-making exercise.
Massive sit-in inside
#UN
climate talks led by
#FridaysForFuture
indigenous groups and women and non-binary folks.
#COP25
has failed all of them - but we're leaving to keep building power in our communities and front lines of the
#climatejustice
struggle.
"ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, take your gas and go to hell!" protestors are outside the venue of the
#FlameConf
25th birthday party, despite them cancelling it because they were too scared of their guests being a confronted by the truth!
#FlameOver
How has French oil&gas major
@Total
used public 💶💶💶 from
#COVID19
😷 ?
🤑 to increase shareholder dividends to €6.9bn
👞 sack 1000+ French workers
🌴 settle in tax havens
🛢️ wreck the climate
New research by
@transnationales
At an event in Glasgow University with oil + gas giant Eni. How can they be given a platform around
#COP26
when their business model is so destructive? Anything to do with the extensive
#RevolvingDoor
between Eni + governments? Read CEO's report
[NEW]
#COP25
in Madrid is bankrolled by some of Spain's biggest polluters, involved in climate crimes and human rights + worker abuses.
Check out the new infographic and factfile from CEO and friends.
#PollutersOut
The new methane regulations exclude the emissions from imported fracked gas, too.... So we think its morally right to ban fracking in the EU but we're more than happy to import it! Large helping of hypocrisy, anyone?
#BanFracking
#MethaneLeaks
Tomorrow the European Parliament is going to vote on whether to approve €13bn worth of new gas pipelines and LNG terminals.
Will EU decision-makers walk the talk: we need to move away not just from Russian gas imports but all gas.
Vote NO in the 5th PCI List
GERMANY: 80% of people see lobbyists as a negative influence, according to a poll from ZEW Mannheim.
Especially on
#climate
🔥🌪️🌊🌍
1 in 2 people think industry
#lobbying
has weakened climate policies.
#gaslobby
#PollutersOut
Bill Gates, the new climate saviour? 🤔
His Foundation has some pretty massive
#fossilfuel
investments, despite claiming to have divested👇👇
Nice article by
@TimothyWSchwab
in
@TheNation
debunking the (depressing/familiar) hype around yet another billionaire
#PolluterElite
Tomorrow the EU is bringing out new
#methane
regulations but they're sorely lacking: if you want to cut methane leaks from
#fossilgas
, you need to phase out fossil fuels and stop building new infrastructure.
#CutMethaneEU
#MethaneLeaks
NEW DATA:
@Shell
has sent 146 people to the UN climate talks since 1999. It's officially registered to participate, but has done so under its own name only once...🤔
Want to know who's welcomed Shell into the UN Climate talks?
*KEEP READING*
#PollutersOut
👇👇👇
Most people are through the barricade and on the other side... And surprisingly full of energy given it's 6 in the morning! On est plus chaude que le climat !
#OccupyForClimate
#act4climatejustice
Myself and
@DomEagleton
wrote to the
@FT
editor explaining why we declined the invitation to speak at the fossil fuel-sponsored
#FTHydrogen
Summit.
The FT didn't publish it, so we've posted the full text on the
#FossilFreePolitics
website.
I'm at
#COP24
all week chasing
#fossilfuel
lobbyists around the corridors of power (or the canteen) for
@corporateeurope
.
Will be tweeting examples of corporate capture of the UN climate talks and general
#ClimateJustice
comments at what's happening here in Katowice, Poland.
Always great to see
@Shell
's logo when you open your
@POLITICOEurope
climate and energy newsletter in the morning.
As
@badvertising11
calls for sport to drop sponsorship from big polluters, Brussels media seems a long way off doing so.
.
@EP_President
, you don’t get to pose with
@GretaThunberg
and the European youth strikers one day, then turn a blind eye as the EU negotiates our climate alongisde the fossil fuel industry another… back people not polluters at
#SB50Bonn
#PollutersOut
Dear
@DavidLammy
, as your constituent I'm horrified to see you lying about raped babies + giving unconditional support to Israeli war crimes. You're inflicting damage not just in
#Gaza
but also
#Tottenham
where your actions are driving islamophobia + antisemitism. Can we meet?
This is EXACTLY why we shouldn't believe Big Polluters'
#NetZero
claims - they're based on make-believe technology designed to keep the 💵💵💵 rolling in.
Great work by
@biofuelwatch
in exposing it - don't be fooled!
🕵️🏽FOSSIL GAS IN DISGUISE🕵️🏽
Documents obtained by
@corporateeurope
reveal
#fossilgas
lobby group, Gas Infrastructure Europe, is now introducing itself to
@EU_Growth
as the "European association of renewable and low-carbon gases infrastructure operators"
#greenwashing
UK's decision to award the Boston Consulting Group a £1-million contract to help organise the UN's
#COP26
climate summit poses a "potential
#conflictofinterest
" due to its ties to fossil fuel companies, say environmental groups - via
@AFP
@patrickgaley
ExxonMobil casually enjoying access to the EU's top climate and energy officials.
Just a normal day at the office for theUS oil&gas major who has spent decades denying, delaying and distracting over climate action.
#FossilFreePolitics
Grateful to EU Energy Commissioner
@KadriSimson
for a very constructive debate with our President Europe, Philippe Ducom, on the role of the chemical Industry in achieving the EU's climate ambitions
#DualChallenge
The moment the
#UNFCCC
herded the protest outside + shut the door on the people + their demands for real solutions not carbon markets, for rich countries to pay for the destruction suffered already in poorer counties from a heating climate they didn't cause
#stepuppayup
#COP25
"fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber our delegation 12 to 1" - stark truths from the Pacific Climate Warriors outside the negotiations on the last day of
#COP26
. Out on the streets we're getting ready for the fight that lies ahead of us.
#PeopleGotThePower
#ClimateJustice
Susan George predicts another financial crash, far worse than the previous one, as "the banks are bigger, there's been absolutely no regulation... And if we don't get a hold of this..." but we can't regulate while the financial industry remains in charge of regulation
❓What is the UK government pushing at
#COP26
?
⭕️ Net-Zero
❓What are Big Polluters pushing at
#COP26
?
⭕️
#NetZero
❓Should you be worried? 💯
NEW: how net zero is being used to block meaningful action at
#COP26
#FossilFreePolitics
More evidence of why voluntary commitments from oil&gas companies can't be trusted.
We need binding regulations for a rapid & equitable fossil fuel phase out, which ain't gonna happen while their lobbyists flood the UN climate talks
#KickBigPollutersOut