COP29 is around the corner, and we can be certain that fossil fuel lobbyists won’t stay at home, as they never do. Last year, the EU and its member states brought more than 130 fossil fuel lobbyists to COP28. They included senior executives from Eni and BP, as well as ExxonMobil’s chief lobbyist in Brussels.
That’s why 112 civil society organisations wrote to European Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, asking him not to bring fossil fuel lobbyists to COP29 on the EU Delegation.
In the letter, the organisations raised strong concerns over the dominance of the fossil fuel industry’s voice in discussions to halt global heating and demanded Hoekstra support measures that protect decision-making from the influence of the oil and gas industry, like what happens with the tobacco industry.
A similar message is being passed to national-level ministers in 9 countries across Europe, with groups calling on them to not bring fossil fuel lobbyists to COP29 (Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the UK).
The letters:
