More than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists have infiltrated UN climate summits in just four years — a period marked by worsening extreme weather, record emissions, and soaring oil expansion. These lobbyists, representing 859 organisations and 180 fossil fuel giants, have shaped global negotiations aimed at combating the very crisis their industries fuel.
According to the Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) coalition, just 90 of these companies were behind over half of global oil and gas production in 2024, and nearly two-thirds of all planned new drilling projects. Their collective output could blanket seven European nations in a 1 cm layer of oil — a vivid symbol of how profit continues to outweigh the planet’s survival.
With the world already off course from the 1.5°C target, these findings reignite urgent calls to ban fossil fuel interests from climate policymaking. The contradiction is glaring: how can those driving the crisis also dominate the conversation to solve it? Read More
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