Green | May 25, 2009 | 2 comments

Climate change summit hijacked by biggest polluters, critics claim

source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/24/climate-change-polluters-shell

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A vital meeting in Copenhagen this weekend that will help shape the agenda for the most important climate change talks since the Kyoto protocol has been hijacked by some of the biggest polluters in the world, critics claimed today.

Among those attending the World ­Business Summit on Climate Change is Shell, which has just been named by environmentalists on the basis of new research as "the most carbon-intensive oil company in the world".

There is concern that the big energy companies will be pushing carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a way of keeping the oil-based economy running.

At the meeting yesterday, the United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders – including the chief executives of PepsiCo, Nestlé and BP – to lend their corporate muscle to reaching a global deal on reducing greenhouse gases.



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2 comments // Climate change summit hijacked by biggest polluters, critics claim

  • twitterbot
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    • @TheGreenDemon on twitter says "Climate change summit hijacked by biggest polluters critics claim ...: Majority of firms attending the World Bus.."

    • 3 years ago
  • JanforGore
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    • Doing business with Shell is doing business with MURDERERS. Remember Nigeria! I was afraid that this would get hijacked by the likes of companies like Shell (that is also destroying the Boreal Forest with tar sands) and others pushing CCS and even coal to liquid bs. And also companies like Monsanto that want to use climate change to make a profit for their empty seeds. This is SAD.They should have NO SAY in this after all the damage they have done to this planet. Who the hell do these companies think they are that they are to shape our children's future?

    • 3 years ago
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