Royal Dutch Shell provoked a furious backlash from campaigners yesterday when it announced plans to scale back its renewable energy business and focus purely on oil, gas and biofuels. Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive, said that Shell, the worldโs second-largest non-state-controlled oil company, was planning to drop all new investment in wind, solar and hydrogenย energy.
Their access to the summit is proof that Big Oil still holds "a dangerous sway" over the climate process, campaigners say.
Delegationโs composition consistent with new KBPO report revealingย this yearโs UN climate talks have the largest number of fossil fuel lobbyists to date
Labour government accused of being โcomplicit in the fossil fuel industryโs conquest of the COP processโ.
Our changing climate will produce winners and losers. Canada should look to the Global South for a winning strategy.
