If the stage is now set for the climate battle to begin, there is no shortage of combatants. A Center for Public Integrity analysis shows that, by the end of last year, more than 770 companies and interest groups had hired an estimated 2,340 lobbyists to influence federal policy on climate change. Thatโs an increase of more than 300 percent in just five years, and means that Washington can now boast more than four climate lobbyists for every member of Congress.
After MEPs voted to gut Europeโs flagship climate transparency law, concerns are mounting that the Big Four will dominate and dilute corporate sustainability audits.
Doctors and models extol the virtues of meat as climate impacts of industrial farming face scrutiny at COP30 โ the global climate summit.
Their access to the summit is proof that Big Oil still holds "a dangerous sway" over the climate process, campaigners say.
Delegationโs composition consistent with new KBPO report revealingย this yearโs U.N. climate talks have the largest number of fossil fuel lobbyists to date.
