A letter signed by more than 100 organisations was sent to Hoekstra, asking not to bring fossil fuel lobbyists to COP30 🇧🇷 👍 Promisingly, there were no lobbyists in the official EU delegation last year 👎EU Member States still brought 113 lobbyists ✉️: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/cop30-l... #COP30

NEW on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 Under pressure from the #Hydrogen lobby, EU Commission agrees to review its rules on producing #greenhydrogen 2 years earlier than planned. Industry wants sustainability criteria weakened... Expect more fossil gas consumption. corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

1/ 🤔 indulge us in an exercise of logic, spread over a few posts TL;DR? a new court ruling and a new disclosure mechanism should ban 🇫🇷 French oil & gas major ⛽ TotalEnergies from participating at COP30 in Brazil.

✊ Victoire pour le climat : Total vient d'être condamnée pour greenwashing ! A la veille de la COP30, cette décision crée un précédent juridique majeur contre la désinformation climatique des majors pétrolières. Notre communiqué 👇 www.amisdelaterre.org/communique-p...

➕🚗🏭 new calculations show that if all new gas plants with CCS currently proposed by industry were to go ahead - even at a 90% capture rate - they could emit 2.4-5 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually, the same as adding 1.3-2.6 million petrol cars per year in the UK.

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

🚨 ExxonMobil has been lobbying relentlessly to take down the EU’s CSDDD. Its playbook? - Lobbying - Funding think tanks - Media sponsorships ⚠️The EU cannot let those causing the climate crisis write the rules to get out of it. www.somo.nl/how-big-oil-kills-sustainability-and-climate-legislation/

🎥 Film screening + debate 🎥 What: special preview screening of CEO's new doc on community resistance to the EU's green hydrogen drive. Followed by a debate + drinks 🍻 Where: Mundo Matonge, BXL When: 19h00 With: @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social @counter-balance.bsky.social @attacdeutschland.bsky.social

Join us 🤝 Together we will cut fossil fuels out of EU politics, and make space for the real solutions we all need. ✂️ fossilfreepolitics.org

We've taken another step in tackling industry interference at the UN climate talks ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾 Sustained campaigning from the #KickBigPollutersOut coalition means all non-govt participants heading to COP30 now have to declare who's funding their attendance. kickbigpollutersout.org/COP30-next-s...

The EU's top court has just ruled that nuclear energy and fossil gas are "green" and count as sustainable investments 🤯 Shows you just how green the EU is (and the influence that the #gaslobby has over politics). Really disappointing. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Gastech 2025 has begun in Milan, bringing together oil majors and governments - behind a paywall 💰🤫 ENG: 😡 “Come all to the gas and gas derivatives fair!” It's time for Gastech 2025, “the world's largest event dedicated to natural gas, LNG, hydrogen, climate tech, and AI in the energy sector.”

What antics have the fossil fuel enablers been up to over the summer? Law firm Marzulla Law, which supports groups fighting offshore wind farms, is pressuring Brown University to retract its research linking anti-wind groups to the fossil fuel industry. #FAIL www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

The UK trying to do what the UK does best: second oil&gas and arms companies into government! Such a successful tactic in the past, foreign secretary David Lammy tries it again but faces massive push back. #fossilfreepolitics www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ever wondered how Europe got hooked on US gas? Based on research by our good friends at ARIA, this article shows how just one lobbyist can be enough to convince our leaders to go for American LNG. It's another reason we need to cut fossil fuels out of our politics. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

ICYMI: Last week @corporateeurope.org was in the EU Parliament for a special screening of their new film about the struggle of South African communities against new green hydrogen projects. 🚨 SPOILER ALERT: Green hydrogen is being used by the fossil fuels industry to greenwash their activities 👀

A conflict of interest that stinks to high heaven? Yep, that's exactly what it is! Lead author of a new IPCC report into reducing oil&gas emissions used to work for @saudiaramco.bsky.social for 18 years. via @globalenergymon.bsky.social' #InsideGas www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

New report from US Department of Energy warns that 🇺🇸 will lose the AI race unless it keeps older coal + gas plants open, and speeds up construction of new ones. It's as if the fossil fuel industry is running the government... oh yeah, they actually do 🤦🏼‍♂️ www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

🗞️La vicenda della SLAPP, dell'azione intimidatoria di #ENI verso il nostro Antonio Tricarico per le dichiarazioni rilasciate a Report è finita sulla home del @theguardian.com. 🤔La testata 🇬🇧 racconta tutta la storia, che tanti media mainstream 🇮🇹 hanno ignorato 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change calls for a ban on fossil fuel lobbying. Each failed attempt to address climate change lays bear the damaging political influence of the coal, oil and gas lobby. It's time for #FossilFreePolitics. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 BREAKING: Despite supposed reforms, carbon offsets are still ineffective and prone to failure. New research from @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social exposes offsetting as a #DangerousDistraction and #FalseSolution to the climate crisis. corporateaccountability.org/BuiltToFail

Governments are in Bonn for the UN climate negotiations. They have the chance to tackle conflicts of interest and stop the fossil fuel lobby's damaging impact on the talks. @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu will you ensure the EU supports action on conflicts of interest? #SB62 #PollutersOut

As governments meet in Bonn for the UN climate talks, here's another timely reminder for @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu The EU needs to get behind effort to protect the talks from fossil fuel industry interference. We need a conflict of interest policy at the UNFCCC + in Brussels! #PollutersOut #SB62

🔔 Reminder sent 🔔 60 organisations have sent a timely reminder to EU Climate Commissioner wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu calling on him to protect UN climate talks from fossil fuel industry influence at Bonn #SB62 💌: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/reminde... #FossilFreePolitics #PollutersOut 🧵/1

The EU wants to weaken its #methane rules to import more US LNG ⛴️ even if it raises energy bills 📈 This attack on regulations is enshrined in the EU's own Clean Industrial Deal, a dirty industry bible. Find out more in Part II of our #DirtyIndustrialDeal FAQs corporateeurope.org/en/2025/06/d...

🔴 REVEALED 🔴 BP, Chevron, Shell, and other oil majors back arts and community groups to protect their business models, subpoenaed documents show. ✏️ @rebeccajohn.bsky.social‬ reports: buff.ly/ZQ1IaRF

Europe is stuck with gas again. How could that happen? And what role did the gas lobby play in it? @argosonderzoekt.bsky.social (VPRO/broadcaster HUMAN) reconstructs how gas, against climate goals, became the energy source of the future again. 🎧 For Dutch speakers - argos.vpro.nl/artikelen/ge...

Fossil fuel lobbyists and their Big Energy allies have been busy weakening laws in Brussels. If we want strong climate legislation, we need to protect it from industry lobbyists with a clear vested interest. We need #FossilFreePolitics

🚨 Public affairs firms caught enabling pollution by lobbying for big oil Our friends at @thegoodlobby.bsky.social have teamed up with @theguardian.com to unveil the first dataset of public affairs and law firms serving the fossil fuel industry in the EU. Research: bit.ly/4d3DXTr #DecarbLobbying

📢 NGOs under attack! Join us and 570+ organisations calling on MEPs to address unfair attacks on NGOs in the European Parliament and ensure that citizens’ voices are heard! 📄 Read our statement: friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/u... #StopAttackingNGOs

The #CarbonOffset industry cherry-picks data to push a misleading narrative ⚠️ SOMO and @datadesk.bsky.social analysed 2 of their reports; and expose 8 big flaws in their data and methodology. This isn’t just bad science. It’s a dangerous distraction. Read our analysis: www.somo.nl/discredited/

We hope you didn't fall for any April Fools jokes today, but the fossil fuel industry tries to trick us every day of the year... Don't be fooled by their false solutions like CCS or Blue Hydrogen! So be vigilant today, and every day! linktr.ee/fossilfreeeu

Two FFP affiliated publications mentioned in this great article on green NGO funding ✌️ Article: euobserver.com/eu-political... The publication on blue hydrogen: fossilfreepolitics.org/wp-content/u... The "Shareholders" report: friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-content/u...

We need a firewall around UN and EU climate decision-making, just like there is for tobacco. But what would that look like? #FossilFreePolitics✂️

Label #BlueH2 as 'clean’ means billions in new subsidies 4 #fossilfuel projects that exacerbate the #ClimateCrisis ⛔no to #False Solutions such as #CCS and #H2 🆗 we need #FossilFreePolitics, to deliver real solutions & bring carbon emissions down to #RealZero @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social

❗Dirty hydrogen uncovered ❗ Thanks to excessive lobbying from big polluters, the EU is just about to label hydrogen made from fossil gas as clean. Find out how they lobby behind closed doors to skew emissions accounting models in their favour. 📰 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/3/EU... 🧵1/2

European Green Deal + Green Deal Industrial Plan for a Net Zero Age already had fingerprints of fossil fuel industry & other big polluters all over it, allowing more false solutions like gas, carbon markets, CCS & hydrogen. All feature in the #CleanIndustrialDeal corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02/e...

🇪🇺 New European Parliament Interest Group launched to drive action on #HealthInequalities, prevention and risk factors “Evidence based policymaking faces challenges from aggressive, well-funded lobbying efforts” #NCDs @eurohealthnet.bsky.social @eupha.bsky.social eurohealthnet.eu/publication/...

Big Energy has consistently been a top spender in Brussels, & its lobbyists a constant presence in the corridors of power Big spending = high levels of political access & influence. Tomorrow's #CleanIndustrialDeal is a case in point See this: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02/e... Short thread 🧵 1/6

What happens when big industry and fossil fuel companies decide where to put public funding? It goes straight to the pockets of their shareholders 💰 New report from @foeeurope.bsky.social and @somoamsterdam.bsky.social uncovers how big industry puts payouts over the energy transition.

💌 No love letters to the fossil fuel industry 💌 We asked people at our event yesterday to confess their feelings to all the fossil fuel enthusiasts out there. Enjoy this selection of their works 💛

💛 Tonight is the night 💛 The event won't be affected by the strike, so come and join us for some friendly networking at Kamilou in Brussels from 19:00. ⚠️ Fossil fuel lobbyists are not allowed, and your professional backgrounds will be checked. See you there: www.linkedin.com/events/savet...

Event: fossil free networking drinks by @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social ! 😘 🗓️ 13 February 📌 kamilou 🕐 From 19h #FossilFree #EndFossilFuels

Still haven’t kissed a fossil fuel lobbyist? Good. Because our Valentine’s Day networking event is back with new surprises and the old policy of no fossil fuel lobbyists allowed 💔 📅Feb 13 19:00 - Kamilou, Brussels RSVP and more info here👇 www.linkedin.com/events/savet...

🚨 Breaking! 🚨 🕴️Today we uncover that there are more than 1770 fossil fuel lobbyists are attending #COP29 - more than delegates from all climate vulnerable nations combined. Read all about it here: corporateeurope.org/en/2024/11/f... #kickbigpollutersout

We need a firewall around UN and EU climate decision-making, just like there is for tobacco. But what would that look like? #FossilFreePolitics✂️

For decades, fossil fuel companies and their lobbyists have denied science, and have delayed, weakened, and sabotaged climate action. They made billions in profits, while heating the planet and destroying communities. Cut fossil fuels out of our politics! fossilfreepolitics.org