🚨 Breaking! 🕴️Today we uncover that there are more than 1770 fossil fuel lobbyists are attending #COP29 - more than delegates from all climate vulnerable nations combined. Read all about it here:

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Fossil fuel lobbyists eclipse delegations from most climate vulnerable nations at COP29 climate talks | Corporate Europe Observatory

At least 1773 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to COP29, underscoring an outsized polluter presence year after year at crucial climat...

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🤯 What HyCOPrisy! Our new investigation shows how the EU is using #COP29 to greenwash Azerbaijan’s gas as sustainable - so it can pretend to be a climate leader while doubling its gas imports from the country. 🧵A thread on the key findings

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COP29 HyCOPrisy | Corporate Europe Observatory

After pressuring Azerbaijan to up gas production for export, the EU is using COP29 to greenwash the fossil fuel and its own climate image.

🔎 docs show the EU persuaded Azerbaijan + its oil co. SOCAR to join its voluntary Global Methane Pledge, offering to co-organise prestigious high-level events with them so they could tell their “great energy story”

Big Tech has been making use of an extremely insidious and shady lobby tactic: the use of front groups. Find out more about our most recent report with @npub1up69...2wy4 and @npub16ux2...q37k in the video and read all about it here:

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Uncovering Big Tech's hidden network | Corporate Europe Observatory

In March 2024, the EU Commission set up a series of public workshops to test Big Tech' compliance with the Digital Markets Act. Research by CE...

🔎 Big Tech has built a massive network of lawyers and lobbyists to skew debate in its favour. 🚨 Now new research by @npub19gkv...xllu @npub16ux2...q37k @npub1up69...2wy4 shows how 21% of registrants of the public #DMA workshops had close and undisclosed ties with Big Tech. 👉

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Uncovering Big Tech's hidden network | Corporate Europe Observatory

In March 2024, the EU Commission set up a series of public workshops to test Big Tech' compliance with the Digital Markets Act. Research by CE...

🚨 New profile on agrochemical giant #Bayer 🚨 💸 Bayer is a lobby topspender in the EU and globally. 🆘 Bayer’s products are not only bad for our health and environment but also democracy 👉 Read all about it here:

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Bayer’s toxic trails | Corporate Europe Observatory

Corporate Europe Observatory takes a deep dive into the German agrochemical giant Bayer. Whether it’s over glyphosate, GMOs, or global warming, w...

Analisis of the plans for the next Commission: when corporate lobby groups define the strategy under the slogan of ‘competitiveness’, it is a wake-up call. Environmental policies, climate measures, social justice, and even democracy are in the firing line. Read all about it here:

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'Competitiveness': inside the troubling corporate blueprint for the coming Commission | Corporate Europe Observatory

‘Competitiveness’ appears to be the uncontested yardstick for the EU, based on the Commission’s plans for the next five years. This is a big ...

Worst fears confirmed with #draghireport on the next years priorities in the EU. What von der Leyen left vague is concretised. Key proposals will lead to a tighter corporate stranglehold over EU rules. 🧵Here are 4 examples:👇

🌾 While most people were sunbathing, the merger between two Big Agri giants Bunge and Viterra received a green light from the European Commission. 🌱 This deal is unprecedented in size within the global agriculture sector and will result in further accelerated concentration in markets where economic power is already very concentrated, questioning EU's capacity to be sovereign in food systems. Read the Op Ed by Hans van Scharen and @npub1up69...2wy4 's Irene Keizer in EUobserver

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A new agri mega merger, where are political rightwingers when farmers need them? | Corporate Europe Observatory

While most people were sunbathing or watching the Olympic games, the merger between Bunge and Viterra received a green light from the European Comm...