Fossil fuel companies accused of thwarting Paris climate talks
International negotiations on the implementation of the 2015 Paris Climate Accords are being undermined by corporate interests, according to a report co-authored by campaign group Corporate Accountability. The report, released ahead of a meeting of parties to the Accord next week, gives examples of fossil fuel firms that it claims have manipulated the negotiations and questions the role of leading polluters that sponsor meetings in return for high-level access. Firms and organisations named in the report include EDF, Monsanto, Shell, Syngenta and the International Emissions Trading Association.

In November 2017, during one of the most unprecedented periods of climate-related extreme weather events and humanitarian crises, governments will once again gather in Bonn, Germany, for the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). High on government’s list will be to discuss the procedures that will guide the implementation of the Paris Agreement. If the world is to avoid the worst of the climate crisis and keep warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and well below 2 degrees, Parties must agree to real, just, and sustainable solutions, and reject the false solutions peddled by the world’s dirtiest polluters and their proxies (including obstructionist governments and industry trade groups).

Read the executive summary.