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"Turkish giant sponsoring COP31 cut climate goals then cashed in on oil boom" 📝 new piece by @climatechangenews.com on #COP31 sponsor Koç Holding's #conflictofinterest. Campaigner @pascoesabido.bsky.social calls it "hugely embarrassing" for the UNFCCC. www.climatechangenews.com/2026/10/21/t...

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⚠️ The EU is delaying and weakening its methane regulation, a key piece of legislation to tackle the climate crisis. New report uncovers the relentless lobbying of the fossil fuel industry behind the successful take-down👇 fossilfreepolitics.org/news/how-the... #EUMR #FossilFreePolitics

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⚠️ The EU is delaying and weakening its methane regulation, a key piece of legislation to tackle the climate crisis. New report uncovers the relentless lobbying of the fossil fuel industry for this exact outcome👇 fossilfreepolitics.org/news/how-the... @foodwatereurope.bsky.social

🔺 NEW INVESTIGATION When the EU fined Elon Musk's X €120M, Trump, Musk and a US ultraconservative Christian legal group closed ranks. All were already campaigning against EU platform regulation,& work together We mapped it. We call it the Triangle of Madness corporateeurope.org/en/2026/10/t... 🧵👇

Europe may be paying 80% more for US LNG by 2040, according to @oilchange.org. That's a disaster for households and businesses already struggling to pay their bills. The EU needs to get off gas altogether, not swap Russian gas for Trump. oilchange.org/wp-content/u...

The US is so utterly corrupt. Do you remember those dodgy bets on oil made right before Trump made announcements about Hormuz? Well the the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal derivatives regulator was gonna investigate and see what happened: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

There is no place for a gas giant at a climate event ✊ And still, today’s “Energy Day” at the Brussels Climate Week has ENGIE as the main sponsor. We started our day there to call for a ban on fossil fuel sponsorships on climate events like this one.

This summer's heat waves are Europe's latest taste of the worsening climate catastrophe. This autumn expect floods + more. Yet we're less prepared than ever, with low-income and vulnerable households inevitably hit the hardest. euobserver.com/242285/franc...

Can't help but laugh 😂 EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen says Europe's moving away from Russian gas towards "a more diverse range of reliable suppliers". Ha! I've never heard Trump described in such terms! The EU is in fact shifting from one blackmailer to another. euobserver.com/242252/made-...

Windfall tax, anyone? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🚨 NEW REPORT: The pesticide industry didn't just lobby on the EU's Food & Feed Omnibus. More like they co-wrote it. This report shows how. Check it out 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/10/f... Thread 🧵👇

We're being told that new international carbon credits are "high integrity" but dig a little deeper and you can see that they're as problematic as they always were. #Article64 #CarbonMarkets @carbonmarketwatch.bsky.social @realzeroeurope.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social

FOREVER EVER?! Listen to Agnes, an Austrian bee-keeper who has witnessed the terrible impact of pesticides on her bee hives & Carmen, a leading bee expert, as they explain why the use of pesticides cannot go unchecked. 👀🤯 Say no to the #Pesticide #Omnibus! 1/2 Video with @global2000.bsky.social

Pesticides: Scientific community warns of 'dangerous step backward' in European laws

We’re on the streets in Paris with French public service workers! ✊🇫🇷 Better pay. Better conditions. More staff. More investment in the public services we all rely on. Solidarity with everyone taking action across France today! ❤️

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

❌ WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR We and 120+ organisations and unions across Europe are calling on our governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public sector contracts with Palantir. Read the open letter here: www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🚨 Enough is enough! 👏 Workers from all over Europe came to Brussels to say no to the EU Inc/ 28th Regime proposal which will lead to undermining of workers and trade union rights. ✊ EU Inc is a symbol of the madness we are living in and it shall not pass! 👏 @etuc-ces.bsky.social 👏

France's Macron pretends to care about energy prices but uses the public anger as a tool to deregulate climate regulations instead, helping the oil and gas industry, not people and the planet www.ft.com/content/07c0...

And why is it left to the far right questioning the fairness of EU policies? Meloni in Italy wants Brussels to "relax fiscal rules for households and industries struggling with soaring energy costs, arguing that energy security should be treated with the same urgency as defence spending."

Today, EU Commission published its sustainability rating scheme for data centres. Remember how the Commission copy-pasted a Microsoft amendment to keep crucial information on data centres energy use+environmental impacts hidden? Well, Big Tech’s ‘confidentiality’ clause remains 😡 - just reworded ⬇️

As New York Climate Week kicks off, reality is biting elsewhere: Oil & gas majors Chevron and Exxon both announce they're increasing their LNG output at an industry conference in Bangkok. #climateweeknyc finance.yahoo.com/energy/artic...

❓Who's paying the most in extra energy costs because of the Hormuz crisis? ✔️ Europe 🇪🇺 But as we heard from EU President VDL in today's #SOTEU, there's no serious strategy to tackle this. Maybe she should stop taking advice from the fossil fuel industry? #FossilFreePolitics

US data centres will consume more gas than most countries within a decade, according to a new outlook from BloombergNEF. The EU is desperate to keep pace with the US, for fear of losing the AI race. 💥 Bang goes the climate. (£) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This summer's heatwaves killed more than 35,000 extra people across Europe, mostly elderly and low-income. Von der Leyen's response in her State of the Union? "We must capture this market." Sustained public investment is what's needed. A market opportunity is what von der Leyen offers.

#SOTEU : while Europe faces social, environmental and geopolitical pressures, it's funny how the solution always happens to be exactly what corporate lobbyists have been asking for, and they already have more access to EU decision-making than anyone. Here's our take on AI, deregulation and climate👇

Wanna get angry/depressed? Listen to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu's #SOTEU address. This summer saw 35,000+ excess deaths in 🇪🇺 from global heating-induced heat waves. Fighting it means investing in public services decimated by decades of austerity. For VDL, it's a chance to capture emerging markets 😩

Didn't get time to read the UN's latest overshoot report? Fear not, Heated's @emorwee.bsky.social got you covered. "The main takeaway: All is not lost. But we need a revolution." And she's shared a great summary from @ayanaeliza.bsky.social ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/i-read-the...

2/2 The Sámi are in fact our last line of defence against mining industry attempts to scrap water, land and air regulations. The EU's pro-mining/anti-regulation agenda comes from LKAB, the same Swedish company behind the rare earth metal mine. Read more: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/p...

1/2 Elections are taking place next week in Sweden, and the ruling right wing parties are trying to win support by turning people against Sámi communities in favour of rare earth metals mining - despite the Sámi being protected by numerous UN + EU charters. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

1/2 What do you get when you cross the oil + gas lobby with the EU's Climate Commissioner? ...An "Implementation dialogue on carbon capture + storage"! 🥁 Nope, not at all funny, just the latest case of corporate capture by dirty industry. #FossilFreePolitics fossilfreepolitics.org/news/impleme...

New from @corporateeurope.org: A deadly alliance of Big Tech and Big Oil. Behind the AI boom, tech firms are teaming up with oil giants to greenwash fossil-fuelled data centres, strengthening the power of two industries driving climate breakdown. buff.ly/avfXvWw

Hearing lots of talk about #overshoot, thanks to UNEP's new report. But academics @konstantinweber.bsky.social et al point out that "overly rosy communication" downplays the risks of overshooting 1.5c, while lowering temperatures again is not very realistic. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Israel's stranglehold over Gaza means their electricity system is shutting down - for a second time. The improvised system of generators replaced the electricity networks already destroyed by Israel. Amazing people-centred reporting by @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-engin...

Heard about new fossil gas plants being built to power AI data centres? Maybe some PR about their emissions being captured & stored? Tip: Don't fall for empty promises from companies that produce+sell gas, that a technology they’ve been failing to deliver for decades, will soon make gas “clean” ⬇️

🧵 1/13 🔦 What the Government won't tell you on climate. 🔒 It buried its own intelligence report on ecological breakdown 👉 bsky.app/profile/geor... 📈 Now it won't tell us how it sets carbon budgets that let emissions roll on ⚖️ So we are taking it to Court 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...

Why is @theconversation.com publishing openly pro-CCS pieces, written by an academic funded by -and with shares in- the CCS industry? Very disappointing. theconversation.com/confused-abo... @oilchange.org @ciel.org @corporateeurope.org @realzeroeurope.bsky.social @drandrewboswell.bsky.social

US oil & gas major Chevron posts its highest ever quarterly results. Pretty clear who's winning from the illegal war on Iran, while most of us lose out with high energy and food bills. fortune.com/2026/07/31/c...

Thanks for this really insightful article George CCS is a fossil fuel stitch-up - now with data centres. More data centres ⏩ more gas+CCS ⏩ more LNG ⏩ more methane ⏩ more heat🔥 Burnham has a chance to stop this spiralling - data centre moratorium, move CCS funding to green economy, no Rosebank

UN Sec Gen Guterres calls out massive land, water and energy use of AI data centres, launching his "AI Environmental Transparency Initiative". That's the opposite approach to the EU, which copy-pasted Microsoft's demands against environmental transparency. www.un.org/sg/en/conten...

Siemens directly benefits from the AI boom in another way: it provides gas turbines needed to generate electricity for new data centres. Despite claims they'll be powered by renewables, they won't. Look at industry proposals. Appointing Siemens' chairman as the EU's AI envoy means climate chaos!

Workers in the defence industries are not in favour of militarisation, says the Secretary General of the Metal Workers trade union in Belgium. Money spent on war means money not spent on welfare. A core message from the @stoprearm.bsky.social Assembly in Brussels. We're discussing how to fight back.

Wow, Investor to State Dispute Settlement (#ISDS - those evil corporate courts) is making itself known at the world cup! www.ft.com/content/df9e...

Energy is at number 3 spot in 🇪🇺 corporate lobby league (of those spending €1 million+) with €52 million 💶 Hydrogen Europe posted huge lobby spend increase of €2.25 million in 2026; 1186% increase since 2020 💥 Big Energy using Iran war & #deregulation to cash in corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

Welcome to EU Corporate Lobby League 2026 where big money = big influence Today we will reveal: 🏭 Biggest corporate lobby sectors ✂️ Their lobby agenda to cut our protections 💪 What we can do about it By Corporate Europe Observatory & @lobbycontrol.bsky.social corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...