Exxon & Bushco lobbying efforts to kill Kyoto in Europe revealed

Exxon and Bushco lobbying efforts to kill Kyoto in Europe revealed
by Jerome a Paris
Thu Dec 08, 2005 at 05:23:21 AM PDT
Both the Independent and the Guardian have stories this morning about recent efforts by ExxonMobil-funded and Bush-friendly lobbyists to try to influence European companies abnd EU regulators about the future shape of the Kyoto treaty after it expires in 2012.

If it all sounds eerily familiar, that's because it is - it's a replica of their successful efforts in the 1990s in the US to kill US participation to the treaty.

But the netroots can fight back.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/8/72321/5998

from the Independent

Put together by a lobbyist who is a senior official at a group partly funded by ExxonMobil, the world's biggest oil company and a fierce opponent of anti-global warming measures, the plan seeks to draw together major international companies, academics, think-tanks, commentators, journalists and lobbyists from across Europe into a powerful grouping to destroy further EU support for the treaty.

It details just how the so-called "European Sound Climate Policy Coalition" would work. Based in Brussels, the plan would have anti-Kyoto position papers, expert spokesmen, detailed advice and networking instantly available to any politician or company who wanted to question the wisdom of proceeding with Kyoto and its demanding cuts in carbon dioxide emissions.

It has been drawn up by Chris Horner, a senior official with the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute and a veteran campaigner against Kyoto and against the evidence of climate change. One of his colleagues ­ who describes himself as an adviser to President George Bush ­ was the subject of a censure motion by the Commons last year after he attacked the Government's chief scientist.

Mr Horner, whose CEI group has received almost $1.5m (£865,000) from ExxonMobil, is convinced that Europe could be successfully influenced by such a policy coalition just as the US government has been.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article331768.ece


From The Guardian:
Oil industry targets EU climate policy
· US lobby seeks to derail Kyoto measures
· Documents show plan to sway post-2012 agenda
David Adam in Montreal
Thursday December 8, 2005

Lobbyists funded by the US oil industry have launched a campaign in Europe aimed at derailing efforts to tackle greenhouse gas pollution and climate change.
Documents obtained by Greenpeace and seen by the Guardian reveal a systematic plan to persuade European business, politicians and the media that the EU should abandon its commitments under the Kyoto protocol, the international agreement that aims to reduce emissions that lead to global warming. The disclosure comes as United Nations climate change talks in Montreal on the future of Kyoto, the first phase of which expires in 2012, enter a critical phase.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1661741,00.html

These corporations are criminals. - K&R