Corporate Accountability, Corporate Europe Observatory and Global Witness have closely followed the list of participants at the COP27 summit and have counted 636 lobbyists betting on the fossil fuel sector, compared with 503 at the last summit. They are also in the delegations of the peoples. In total, they belong to the groups of the 29 countries, with the United Arab Emirates being the main, with 70 representatives, followed by Russia, with 33 lobbyists.

There are multinationals like TotalEnergies, Shell, ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron or BP. But there are also other structures that are organised with the same objective. For example, the International Association for the Exchange of Emission Rights IETA, which has sent 130 representatives, which also includes the multinationals listed above.

Corporate Accountability, Corporate Europe Observatory and Global Witness have regretted that the lobby will not achieve an effective solution: “To fight malaria don’t gum mosquitoes.” The greenwashing logic of these lobbies and the “delay of solutions” have once again regretted.

At the same time, representatives of Southern associations fighting for the environment have created difficulties of assistance: an unattainable visa, repressive measures by Egypt or an economic barrier.

Oil, gas and coal lobbies are more widely represented than the ten states most affected by climate emergencies. Porto Rico, Burma, Haiti, Philippines, Mozambique, Burma, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand and Nepal are the most affected countries in the world.

Call for the taxation of companies in the fuel sector

The Alliance of Typical Island States launched on 8 November last the call to move from words to deeds, since the COP27 summit, which considers the imposition of companies in the oil, coal and gas sector essential. Currently, the 52 island TTIP States contribute only 1 per cent of emissions, but they are the most affected by the climate emergency.

The Prime Minister of the State of Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean Sea, Gaston Brown, said on that date: "With some $70 billion, the top six companies in the fossil fuel sector have earned in the first half of this year more than one sum to cover the costs of major climate damage in developing countries. They make huge profits to the detriment of human civilization. As they win, the planet burns.”

The climate summit will begin on 6 and end on 18 November. The Paris summit in 2015 set the target of a world average temperature increase of less than 2°C by the end of the century and, if possible, of 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level. But on the eve of COP27 in Egypt, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Emergencies (GIEC) warns that this goal is not possible: "The truth must be told to the citizens."

The reason is that these experts, aware that the 636 lobbies betting on the oil, gas and coal industry, will actively work on maintaining the systems.