Dear Alok Sharma, President of COP26: Keep big polluters out of the UN climate talks.Read More
If you are to deliver, as COP26 President, your claims of climate ambition and leadership, we call on you to:
Publicly rule out fossil fuel companies as sponsors because they are responsible for high levels of greenhouse gas emissions [1] and are continuing to invest in fossil fuel extraction.
Ensure that no big polluters - or companies facilitating other forms of environmental destruction - are included as sponsors of the COP.
In November 2021 the UN climate talks will be in Glasgow.
The UK government have said they want companies who are ‘driving positive change and innovation towards a lower carbon world’ to sponsor the negotiations.
But it’s just been revealed that big Fossil Fuel companies like BP and Shell are trying to get their logos in the picture, and what’s worse it looks like the summit organisers are seriously considering it.
Big polluters have no place at the climate talks or in our future. We can’t allow these companies to greenwash their image or try and influence these essential negotiations.
Demand that Alok Sharma, President of COP26, kicks big polluters out of COP26.
Culture Unstained, Glasgow Calls Out Polluters, Corporate Europe Observatory, Biofuelwatch, Polluters Out, Friends of the Earth Scotland and 350.org