One Minute Brief of the Day:
Create striking posters that draw attention to the alarming presence of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP30 in Brazil; a climate summit meant to protect the planet, not polluters’ profits.
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Core Message:
COP30 should belong to people and the planet, not polluters.
The posters should question how these interests threaten to derail meaningful climate action
Brazil’s President Lula this week said:
"Redirecting revenues from oil production to finance a just, orderly and equitable energy transition will be essential. Over time, oil companies worldwide, including Brazil’s Petrobras, will transform into energy companies, because a growth model based on fossil fuels cannot last."
““It’s common sense that you cannot solve a problem by giving power to those who caused it. Yet three decades and 30 COPs later, more than 1,500 fossil fuel lobbyists are roaming the climate talks as if they belong here. It is infuriating to watch their influence deepen year after year, making a mockery of the process and of the communities suffering its consequences. Just days after devastating floods and supertyphoons in the Philippines, and amid worsening droughts, heatwaves, and displacement across the Global South, we see the very corporations driving this crisis being given a platform to foist the same false ‘solutions’ that sustain their profit motives and undermine any hope of truly addressing the climate emergency. COP30 promises to be an ‘Implementation COP,’ yet it has so far failed to implement even a basic and long-overdue demand of kicking Big Polluters out of a conference meant to address the crisis they created.””
Key findings:
1600 Fossil fuel lobbyists flood COP30 climate talks in Brazil, with largest ever attendance share according to analysis by the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition
One in every 25 COP30 attendees is a fossil fuel lobbyist
Proportionally, this is a 12% increase from last year’s climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, and is the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP since KBPO started analysing conference attendees.
One in every 25 participants in Belém represents the fossil fuel industry
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber official delegates from the Philippines by nearly 50 to 1 – even while the country is being hit by devastating typhoons as the UN climate talks are underway. Fossil fuel lobbyists sent more than 40 times the number of people than Jamaica, which is still reeling from Hurricane Melissa.
Several Global North countries included fossil fuel representatives within their official delegations – France brought 22 fossil fuel delegates, with five from TotalEnergies, including CEO Patrick Pouyanné; Japan’s delegation contained 33 fossil fuel lobbyists, among them Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Osaka Gas; and Norway snuck 17 into the talks, including six senior executives from its national oil and gas giant Equinor
Key Themes & Imagery/Inspiration:
Juxtaposition: Contrast the natural beauty and fragility of the Amazon with the dark influence of fossil fuel lobbyists infiltrating climate talks.
Symbolism: Consider visuals like oil spills creeping into rainforest rivers, corporate silhouettes at negotiation tables, or fossil fuel logos casting shadows over the COP30 logo.
Tone: Bold, critical, and thought-provoking - yet grounded in hope for a truly ambitious Brazilian COP presidency.
Target Audience:
Global citizens, environmental advocates, journalists, and policymakers who care about transparency and real climate action.