US EditionFossil Fuel Lobbyists Out in Force at Amazon Climate Talks: NGOs
At COP30, 4% of attendees represent fossil fuel interests, raising concerns about their influence on climate negotiations despite calls for stronger conflict of interest rules.
- This year at the Cop30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, one in 25 participants is tied to the oil and gas sector, and the lobbyist group is larger than almost every national delegation.
- Lobbyists include corporate leaders, technical experts and energy specialists whose interests can clash with climate goals, while the world's 65 largest banks provided $869 billion to fossil fuels in 2024 alongside executives such as TotalEnergies chief executive Patrick Pouyanné.
- Kick the Big Polluters Out reports 56,118 overall attendees, including 1,603 with links to oil and gas, at Cop30; the UN records 11,991 official delegates and at least 600 hold overflow badges.
- This year the coalition secured a disclosure rule requiring registrants to state funders and links, but that obligation excludes state delegation badges; 225 organisations urged the Cop30 presidency to stop inviting major polluters.
- Years after Glasgow, the count of fossil-linked attendees has risen sharply from 500, and weeks ago the French ruling found TotalEnergies guilty, fueling NGO outrage.
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BELÉM. Four representatives from the energy company Siemens Energy, which produces fossil gas turbines in Finspång, are part of Sweden's delegation to the COP30 climate summit. Among the participants are people who have supplied equipment for oil platforms for the Brazilian oil giant Petrobras - and for large-scale gas power plants.
According to a data analysis, at the World Climate Conference in Belém, at least 1,600 lobbyists from the oil, gas and coal industries are also present.
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ecotopical.comFossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
It brings the total number of fossil fuel lobbyists given access to the UN climate summits to 7,000 over the past five years, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
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