Not surprised to see Gibson Dunn jumping on this case -- championing "corporate free speech" is kinda their thing. www.exxonknews.org/p/the-law-fi... of course they want to get this issue in front of the Supreme Court (credit to @amywestervelt.bsky.social for warning us all on that one)

It's time to #KickOutTheSuits. Concretely, we need an Accountability Framework to protect the UN climate talks from the influence of big polluters and their conflicts of interest. That's what we'll keep fighting for! #KickBigPollutersOut kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...

Several Global North countries included fossil fuel representatives within their official delegations, including France, Japan, and Norway - @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social has a breakdown of the EU level. #COP30 #KickOutTheSuits #KickBigPollutersOut

Approximately 599 lobbyists were brought in by our national governments, known as "parties" in UN speak. They used "Party overflow badges" that allow access to behind-the-scenes government-only areas of the U.N. climate negotiations. Perfect if you want to delay or disrupt climate action.

Major trade associations remain a primary vehicle for fossil fuel influence, with the International Emissions Trading Association bringing 60 representatives, including delegates from oil and gas giants like ExxonMobil, BP, and TotalEnergies. #COP30 #KickOutTheSuits #KickBigPollutersOut

Fossil fuel companies like Equinor and E.ON have received two thirds more passes to #COP30 than all the delegates from the 10 most climate-vulnerable nations combined, highlighting how industry presence continues to overshadow that of those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

The Philippines and Jamaica are still reeling from devastating typhoons and hurricanes, but their delegations at #COP30 have been outnumbered by fossil fuel lobbyists by nearly 50 to 1 and 40 to 1 respectively. #KickOutTheSuits

📣 BREAKING: One out of every 25 attendees walking around the #COP30 climate talks is a fossil fuel lobbyist. New research from #KickBigPollutersOut reveals there are more than 1,600 in the UN negotiations in Brazil. Here's a thread with the top findings 🧵 kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...

"Babiš’s several hundred companies, most under the Agrofert umbrella, operate in the Czech Republic and other central European countries, benefiting from tens of millions of euros in national and EU farming and other subsidies, as well as public contracts." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Read more on Bayer's big pockets and dirty tactics at the climate COP in our article: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/b...

For agrochemical giant Bayer COP30 is a golden opportunity to greenwash its image. Bayer is one of the major sponsors of the AgriZone of COP30. But farmers and landworkers movement MST has called them out: mst.org.br/2025/11/11/m...

👉📣👽 Watch this ! Today at #COP30 People's Summit in Belém, a huge inflatable is on display, making the link between pesticide use and the climate/biodiversity crisis caused by Big Polluters like #Bayer #BASF #Syngenta #Croplife. ☠️ #Pesticides: Heating the Planet, Poisoning the Future

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🧐 Curious about how Big Tech is lobbying to influence EU decision-making? 🍟 Join us on a lobby tour of the European Quarter in Brussels! When: Friday 14/11 10 o'clock We only have a few spots available, so be fast! Registration: ceo[at]corporateeurope.org

PR firm Edelman is running comms for COP30 while earning 💰💰💰 from fossil fuel clients... "It is absurd and dangerous to have the same person, literally, writing talking points for Shell and the UN Climate Talks at the same time” says @cleancreatives.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🙌We are joining 127 organisations demanding the Commission to halt its highly damaging digital omnibus. The Commission's leaked proposal threatens to: ❌Pause the AI Act ❌Weaken the GDPR to enable AI companies to hoover up personal data This would be a major Big Tech win 👉 edri.org/wp-content/u...

Lobbyists for Big Tech now outnumber MEPs On average, there are 3 meetings a day between Big Tech lobbyists + senior EU figures. Meanwhile an NGO fighting to stop people's water supplies being hoovered up by data centres will wait months to get a single meeting. A fascinating listen 👇

Moreover this vote shows shameless politicking of EPP siding with far-right groups in European Parliament to push through its disastrous #deregulation agenda that cuts protections for people and planet. It's another step forward towards Trumpification of EU politics & should worry us greatly.

Disastrous votes in European Parliament this morning including on #Omnibus1 changes to #DueDiligence rules: ⚠️Fewer companies reporting ⚠️Scrapping of mandatory climate transition plans This is just days after 100+ legal experts said Omnibus 1 could be illegal papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

💸 Do you know how much money Big Tech is spending on lobbying in Brussels? How has this amount been increasing? On what is the money being funnelled to and what can we do about it? 📻 Listen to our new #podcast episode to find out 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/t...

The EC wants more independent fact checking via 'digital space observatory'. How about checking false claims by far right and #EPP MEPs on #EuropeanCivilSociety funding? tinyurl.com/mryywpwe Or it’s undermining of civil society via the 'Guidance document' for NGO funding? 👉 See: shorturl.at/rCGu4

Commissioner #Virkunnen said democracy is under pressure and mentioned Russia, hybrid attacks and info manipulation. All true, but how about similar violent attacks from the authoritarian Trump regime and the Silicon Valley oligarchs? It seems there's a Great Hole in the #DemocracyShield‼️🫣

Commissioner #McGrath said vibrant civic space lies at heart of our democracy and funding is crucial 👏 While the EC is cutting funding for NGOs! Health groups lost all their funding and are closing down 😥 And far right and #EPP MEPs are stepping up attacks on NGO funding 🚨 shorturl.at/8mFex

The #EuropeanCommission today presented its #democracyshield proposal and a Strategy for Civil Society - despite noble intentions, it sounded like ‘operation cognitive dissonance’ 😥🧵 The EC talks urgency and says democracy being under attack, but mostly presented existing & non-binding initiatives!

💥 Bayer spends massively on lobbying: a total of €75 mln worldwide. 👉 Bayer’s self reported Brazilian lobby budget: € 1.5 mln in 2023. 🫣 Journalists from #OJoioeoTrigo and #FiquemSabendo wrote pesticide industry in Brazil had 752 lobby meetings with 🇧🇷 government from October 2022 to July 2024.

🇧🇷 Brazil is one of the biggest users of chemicals in agriculture: consumption reached $14.3 billion in 2024, exceeding even the US. Soy, corn, sugar cane and coffee use the most #pesticides. #Bayer is the second biggest seller, Brazil consumed in 2024 increased 8.5% or 1.5 million tonnes. 😱

☠️ #Bayer and their agribiz friends use #COP30 as "an outstanding opportunity for agribusiness to be seen as part of the solution to the challenges posed by climate change". Without sacrificing 'productivity' thanks to buzzword ‘sustainable intensification’. Ever more #pesticides is the reality.

🌎 Agriculture is by far the biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil. According to latest figures of #SEEG it is responsible for direct emissions of 29%, as well as contributing to 43% of emissions from land use change - often clearing of land for agriculture and farming purposes.

#Bayer, #Nestlé and other big players of the agribusiness sector, are major sponsors of the official AgriZone at #COP30. Bayer as one the power actors of 🐮Brazilian agribusiness aims to convince that the agribizz impact on #climatecrisis is positive. The world upside down! #climatejustice !

🇧🇷 👉 #Bayer in Brazil: how an agrochemical giant and related agribusinesses greenwash their pollution and climate change contribution at #COP30 ⚡ New research article by CEO and #CBG ‘Bayer in Brazil - big polluter, big lobby spender' 💥 Read here: tinyurl.com/2h3etjfv

If you read Czech, take a look at our new op ed on PFAS "Forever Chemicals: When Lobbying Triumphs Over Health" with @arnikaorg.bsky.social in @denikreferendum.cz denikreferendum.cz/clanek/23816...

🔴 A Climate Law for Polluters, Confirmed. Europe’s new 2040 #ClimateTarget locks in loopholes, not real climate action. Offsets, carbon removals, and review clauses won’t phase out fossil fuels — they just buy time for polluters. Read our statement 👇 www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...

1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣➕ organisations wrote to EU Climate Commissioner @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu before he takes off 🛫 for #COP30 in Belém 🇧🇷 We demand he: 🚫 Not bring any 🛢️ fossil fuel lobbyists to COP ✅ Supports tackling conflicts of interest at the UN and in the EU 🇪🇺 ✉️: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/cop30-l...

👆 6/6 The Commission should stop listening to Big Polluters: industrial policy should put public health, labour rights and environmental protection before competitiveness. We need to transform our economy away from fossil fuels. Read more in our Dirty Deal FAQ: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/d...

5/6 The CID promises to create a market for “captured carbon” 🤪 which jeopardise real emissions cuts ✂️ and is unlikely to ever materialise. By putting the fossil fuel industry in the driving seat of industrial policy, the Commission is waving bye bye to a fossil fuel phase out 👇

4/6 It promises to rip away environmental rules around infrastructure permitting 🚷🛢️🏞️ Our health, land and seas are being jeopardised for vast CO2 and hydrogen infrastructure, which will lock-in fossil fuels👇

3/6 It locks in the shift from renewable to fossil hydrogen, a major win for dirty industry. The Dirty Deal mirrors industry’s language and embraces hydrogen made from fossil gas, with the fiction that its emissions will soon be captured 👇

2/5 The Dirty Deal is channelling more public money 💰💰💰 to big polluters 🏭🏭🏭 Carbon capture is dirty industry’s golden ticket to keep profiting from polluting👇

THREAD: 1/6 Part IV of our FAQs on the EU’s not-so-Clean Industrial Deal is out 🕵️‍♀️ taking a closer look at its support of two fossil fuel industry favourite false solutions: hydrogen and carbon capture👇 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/d...

Plus de détails dans l'éditorial ! Il est urgent que la population préoccupés par la santé et le bien-être agissent pour soutenir une interdiction complète des 🇪🇺 #PFAS. Et il est impératif que les politiciens les écoutent. action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-01...

Malgré les révélations faites en janvier par le projet #ForeverLobbying et @lemonde.fr sur les effets dévastateurs des #PFAS et sur la campagne d'influence des entreprises qui maintient ces substances nocives, peu de choses ont changé. Lisez notre éditorial ⬇️ www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

More detail in op ed! It's urgent that citizens concerned about health & well-being take action to support a comprehensive 🇪🇺 #PFAS ban. And it is imperative that politicians listen to them. action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-01...

While EU Commission continues to emphasise its commitment to tackling PFAS, its language around scope of proposed ban is increasingly focussed on ‘consumer uses’, which could allow countless other sources of PFAS contamination to continue, and would be a far cry from the “universal” ban promised.

Despite January revelations of #ForeverLobbying Project @lemonde.fr about devastating impacts of forever chemicals #PFAS, & corporate influence campaign that keeps these harmful substances in our food, water, soil, & bodies, little has changed Read our op ed (in 🇫🇷) ⬇️ www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

“... this issue should be investigated, because Miteni’s production, patents & machinery have been transferred to India should lead us to reflect ... on the power that multinationals have to relocate in countries where there is clearly a race to the bottom in terms of environmental protection.”

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...

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🪚The EU Commission is aggressively cutting any rules that stand in the way of corporate profits. This is the political opportunity that Big Tech has been waiting for. ✊ It is time to fight back against the Commission's chainsaw politics and rein in Big Tech. corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

⚠️In the face of aggressive tech lobbying, the Commission will water down the AI Act in the upcoming digital omnibus. But while the Commission has done ‘reality checks’ with industry, it fails to listen to the reality of people targeted by biased and unfair AI systems.