'Clean me COP21. Let's go fossil free.' A participant in London's climate change march appeals to leaders of COP21. Alisdare Hickson/flickr. Some rights reserved.The opening of the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) on Sunday kick-started what is hoped to be a ground breaking UN climate negotiation session. For the fossil fuel industry and its supporters it also signals the start of a two-week greenwashing and fierce lobbying effort.
Last Monday, the report ‘Fuelling the Fire - The corporate sponsors bankrolling COP21’, published by Corporate Accountability International, shed some light on the relationship between certain official partners of COP and fossil fuel activity.
Few people may know this but some of COP21’s main financial sponsors – Engie, EDF, Suez Environnement and BNP Paribas – are among Europe’s worst contributors to climate change.
