
More than 100 major groups, including oil companies, banks and agribusiness giants, are accused of obstructing climate negotiations.
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The KBPO coalition annually analyzes the presence of fossil fuel lobbies at UN climate summits.
“It’s not just about presence, but influence.” Like every year, the Kick big polluters out (KBPO) coalition revealed, Friday November 13, its analysis of the participants in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, which takes place until November 20 in Antalya, Turkey. “In total, 103 large polluting groups” were able to send delegations to COP31, “despite their particularly blatant track record in terms of obstructive lobbying or their commitment notably out of step with strong climate action,” she denounced.
Traditionally, this coalition which brings together more than 450 organizations made public the total number of representatives of fossil fuel lobbies present in the corridors of the summit. This year, she was interested in the number of delegations sent by "actors who are actively and blatantly working to block climate policies, to obstruct negotiations", beyond just the coal, oil and gas industries, explained Mariam Kempel Hardy, of the NGO Oil Change International.
“Just as tobacco giants are not welcome at the World Health Organization, it is clear that big polluters are not welcome at the COP.”
In order to protect these climate negotiations against their influence, KBPO “requires the establishment of a responsibility framework, including a strict policy on conflicts of interest,” she continued.
While at COP30 in Brazil, "one in 25 participants came from the fossil fuel industry", KPBO denounces the presence in Antalya of 60 groups from the fossil fuel industry, but also 16 major financiers from the sector, six groups from industrial agriculture and food products, three large technological groups and 20 groups described as "intersectoral". Among the delegations singled out by the coalition are the French giant TotalEnergies, the banks BNP Paribas and HSBC, the e-commerce giant Amazon and the asset manager BlackRock.
“The 30 banks present at the COP have accumulated more than $2.2 trillion in financing in favor of fossil fuels, just over the period 2021-2025,” denounced Rachitaa Gupta, coordinator of the Global campaign to demand climate justice network. “Big polluters and their financiers continue to flock to the halls of the COP, working to protect their profits, hinder climate action and perpetuate the status quo,” commented Lien Vandamme, partner at KBPO and member of the Center for International Environmental Law.
"You can't put out a fire by giving matches to the arsonists. And you certainly can't expect the arsonists to write the escape plan."
“It is therefore not surprising that the UN climate negotiations continue to fail to produce the necessary climate measures,” continued the Swiss activist, quoted in a press release. Especially since these delegations “are much more numerous than those of some of the countries most vulnerable to climate change”, according to KPBO. “They are 100 times more numerous than those of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 25 times more than those of Niger, eight times more than those of the Philippines and six times more than those of Nepal, a country which nevertheless suffered devastating floods,” listed the coalition.
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The KBPO coalition will continue to call for a strict accountability framework.
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