Twenty of the world’s biggest banks that attended COP30 in Belém financed $409 billion in fossil fuels in 2024, nearly half of the world’s total fossil fuel financing by big banks.
More than 1600 fossil fuel lobbyists were granted access to the COP30 climate talks in Belém just six months ago. This was the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at any COP since Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) began analysing conference attendees.
Between 2021 and 2024, there were over 5,350 fossil fuel lobbyists who attended COP26 to COP29, including representatives from 180 oil and gas corporations. Just 90 of those corporations were responsible for nearly 60% of global oil and gas production in 2024. These are the largest oil and gas corporations fueling the climate crisis, walking the halls of the climate talks freely, every year…
Source: Kick Big Polluters Out – A global collective that is currently coordinated by the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice
