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Carbon Capture Promoters Turn up in Numbers at COP30: NGO
The Center for International Environmental Law identified 531 carbon capture lobbyists at COP30, highlighting fossil fuel industry efforts to promote emission management technology.
- At COP30 in Belém, the Center for International Environmental Law said companies backing carbon capture deployed more than 500 participants, including ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Petrobras, China National Petroleum Corp and Amazon.
- CIEL said the 531 attendees highlight the fossil fuel industry's energy to promote carbon capture and that oil companies invoke AI-driven energy demand to justify continued drilling.
- CIEL verified affiliations using company websites, the International Energy Agency CCS project database, news sources, and lobbying registers; more than 40 CCS-affiliated people were embedded in national delegations: Russia, Gulf countries, Brazil, Barnaby Pace said.
- Critics warn CCS deployment may normalize fossil-fuel use despite its limits, and US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said, `It just can't be the excuse for polluting more`.
- Comparisons with past COPs show Kick Big Polluters Out found more than 1,600 attendees had fossil-fuel ties, with 475 CCS lobbyists at COP28, Dubai and 480 at COP29, Baku.
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Carbon capture promoters turn up in numbers at COP30: NGO
Companies and groups backing carbon-capture technology, which critics slam as an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels, have deployed more than 500 participants to the COP30 climate talks, according to a list compiled by an NGO and shared exclusively with…
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