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The COP19 Guide to Corporate Lobbying:

11.11.2013

New report published by CEO and TNI, a 32-page guide to the web of corporate lobbying and industry capture of COP19, the yearly UN climate negotiations, taking place in Warsaw, 11-22 November 2013. The guide exposes the eleven official corporate partners of the conference, takes a look at some of the other influential Polish lobbies, and examines an extensive list of the lobby groups attending the COP. It also covers the false solutions that are being offered up by these corporate lobbies, such as shale gas, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon markets.

Future generations or outdated dirty energy industry? UNFCCC chief given ultimatum by climate youth

09.11.2013

Youth organisations from around the world have sent an ultimatum to Christiana Figueres, head of the UN's climate change body, the UNFCCC: you can only attend the annual youth convergence that takes place before the official climate talks if you don't attend the industry-organised International Coal and Climate Summit.

Climate Youth Call out Corporate Capture and Plan for Public Actions

08.11.2013

CEO dished the dirt on the biggest climate criminals attending COP19 in Warsaw to an audience of young climate activists in town to try and tip the balance in favour of genuine climate solutions. The next agreed step was an action brainstorm to see how to take the messages into the streets and into COP19.

COP 19 Climate Capture: Stop the corporate takeover and expansion of carbon markets now!

06.11.2013

November 11-22 in Warsaw, Poland, the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP19) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place. A statement by over 135 groups, networks and movements from all over the world denounces the EU agenda of expanding carbon markets and the corporate capture of the climate talks by the same companies that stand to profit.

EU and big polluters ignore climate action - pushing to expand carbon markets at COP19

06.11.2013

Brussels, 7th November 2013

The EU aims to expand carbon markets that would benefit big polluters at the UN climate talks, COP19 in Poland, says a Statement signed by 135+ groups, movements and networks from all over the world. The Statement denounces the corporate capture of COP19 by the same companies that stand to profit.

EU institutions

A Year of Broken Promises

06.11.2013

A new report released today by ALTER-EU, AK EUROPA and ÖGB Europabüro shows the Commission is doing just that, putting big business in charge of its advisory groups despite promising MEPs reform over a year ago after they froze groups' budgets.
EU institutions

Secret lobbying by law firms shows the need for a mandatory transparency register

04.11.2013

In mid-October, the New York Times published one of the most important investigations this year into EU lobbying, exposing important facts about a little-known aspect of corporate lobbying in Brussels: the lobbying by a dozen or more international law firms, m

EU institutions

Shine a spotlight on secret lobbying

30.10.2013

ALTER-EU has launched a new urgent action: shine a spotlight on the lobby capital of Europe by demanding full EU lobby transparency now. Join ALTER-EU to demand that the 20,000 lobbyists in Brussels are properly regulated.

Poland's partners in climate crime: ArcelorMittal

24.10.2013

Welcome to our mini-series of exposés, looking behind the greenwash to reveal the dirty underbelly of the climate criminals asked to sponsor this winter's UN climate talks in Poland, COP19. First up: the world's largest steel and mining company, with emissions greater than the whole of the Czech Republic, ArcelorMittal.