#CorporateCOP19

Hundreds of activists followed the public call for a peaceful action against the corporate greenwashing event “Solutions COP21”in Le Grande Palais. Marking the opening of the exposition on the fourth of December, the action denounced the false solutions peddled by industry in Paris during the COP21 climate talks with a creative act of civil disobedience.

Black-listed from the coal summit, inside the business day and at loggerheads with the US Chamber of Commerce. The first few days of the second week of the international climate talks in Warsaw have been a busy time for a fly on the wall reporter of the corporate capture of COP19.

At the end of week one of the UN's 19th climate conference, and after thousands of people have today marched through Warsaw demanding real, just, effective and ambitious climate action, we take a look back at some of the polluters' propaganda events that have been happening inside, and outside, COP19.

Youth at this year’s UN climate talks, fed-up with the unprecedented levels of corporate capture of the negotiations, held a mock-auction to sell off the climate to the highest bidder.

IKEA, a last minute “partner” to the UNFCCC climate talks in Warsaw, COP19, has its logo plastered all over the National Stadium in Warsaw. Alongside the logos of the other corporate partners to the climate talks – from fossil fuel companies to aviation, automobile and heavy industries - an exclusive club of climate crooks providing services to the Polish organisers of the COP, in return for a fabulous greenwashing opportunity. But what are the the climate credentials of the Polish government's latest partner in crime?