Pascoe Sabido works for Brussels-based NGO Corporate Europe Observatory, and is a co-coordinator of the Kick Big Polluters Out campaignRSS Feed
EU rush to fix energy crisis risks stripping citizens and nature of legal protectionsA renewed push to ditch fossil fuels is long overdue, but thanks to the influence of industry lobby groups, permitting exemptions intended for renewables are being used for new dirty energy projects, such as CO2 pipelines and fossil hydrogen.
Just how many fossil-fuel lobbyists did the EU take to COP29?COP29 in Baku, which finished last week, was crawling with fossil-fuel lobbyists determined to eke out profits for as long as possible. Shockingly, for a second year running, it is European governments that have facilitated access for a huge number of them.
Big Oil lobbyists should be banned from climate summitsHow do we justly exit the era of fossil fuels when climate summits and EU officials stay surrounded by Big Oil lobbyists?
How the gas lobby is fuelling the cost-of-living crisisAn investigation by COE reveals oil and gas lobbyists have enjoyed unprecedented access to EU decision-making. As a result, a series of critical decisions on tax, energy-infrastructure, and regulation put fossil-fuel industry profits above millions at risk of energy poverty.
