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For years, Big Polluters and their proxies like the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) have pushed hard to advance industry-driven schemes like carbon markets over true, just solutions to address the climate crisis.

This primer documents IETA’s background and exposes the dangers its agenda poses for the future of the Paris Agreement. It also outlines critical steps that governments at the UNFCCC can take right now to reject the influence of Big Polluters and implement truly just climate policy.

On April 22, Big Polluters will roll out a green swath of corporate PR designed to convince us that they are part the solution to the climate crisis. We're not buying it.

2018 is a make-or-break year for the planet. This is the year when global governments are gathering to hammer out exactly how the Paris Agreement of the U.N. climate treaty will be implemented. These rules have lifesaving potential to unlock a sustainable future for us all. Or they will give Big Polluters free rein to keep polluting and interfering in climate policy.

Today, Andrew Wheeler, ex-lobbyist for Murray Energy – the U.S.’s largest underground coal-mining corporation – was confirmed as deputy administrator ...

By Chloe Farand for DeSmog Blog UK. The UN has been called out for acting as a mouthpiece for oil giant Shell ...

Our survival depends on bold climate action now. It’s time Exxon Mobil, the fossil fuel industry, and its proxies pay for the destruction they have caused.

By Kate Aronoff for the Intercept. DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON state this winter exploded onto the political scene. In November, an unabashed ...

BOSTON — Today, President Trump announced via Twitter that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been fired and that C.I.A. ...

The front cover of Spotlight, Corporate Accountability’s newsletter.

Articles include: You tell US to stand down at UN climate talks; Creating social change, person to person; Standing up to Big Tobacco around the world; You stand with educators to end junk food marketing in schools; Building toward water justice in Pittsburgh; Member spotlight: Nancy Bernstein, and more…

Business lobbies in Europe and the US are pushing for a distinct, direct and formalised “business channel” into UN climate negotiations.