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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · 20h

We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.”

More and more evidence shows that carbon offsets aren't lowering emissions — despite #BigPolluters claiming otherwise.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · 2d

#COP30 is not a place for #BigPolluters to make business deals! The Kick Big Polluters Out coalition demands:

📌 A polluter-free COP and presidency
📌 Stronger mechanisms to protect against conflicts of interest
📌 Protection of the Amazon rainforest

NGOs urge Brazil to prevent fossil fuel capture of COP30 climate summit NGOs urge Brazil to keep fossil fuel firms out of COP30

More than 200 civil society groups are asking Brazil's COP30 team to commit to "polluter-free" climate negotiations in Belém

www.climatechangenews.com

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Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · 5d

The WHO FCTC Knowledge Hub for Article 5.3 are calling on young people to use the creative power of photography to expose tobacco industry tactics, inspire advocacy, and protect public health.

📸 Find out more and enter: extranet.who.int/fctcapps/fct...

#YouthVoices #PublicHealth #TobaccoControl

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 7d

#COP30 is no place for #BigPolluters to make business deals! The Kick Big Polluters Out coalition demands:

📌 A polluter-free COP + presidency
📌 Stronger mechanisms to protect against conflicts of interest
📌 Protection of the Amazon rainforest

Read more: www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/01/c...

NGOs urge Brazil to prevent fossil fuel capture of COP30 climate summit NGOs urge Brazil to keep fossil fuel firms out of COP30

Over 200 civil society groups are asking Brazil's COP30 team to commit to a "polluter-free" climate summit in Belém

www.climatechangenews.com

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · 7d

Calling this years' U.N. climate treaty negotiations a "defining business opportunity" is like calling a burning house the perfect fire to roast marshmallows over.

It's time to end #BigPolluters' stranglehold over the U.N. climate talks. We demand a polluter-free #COP30!

LETTER: 225+ Organizations demand COP30 center people, not polluters | Kick Big Polluters Out

kickbigpollutersout.org

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Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) @gcdcj.bsky.social · 8d

225+ Organizations demand COP30 center people, not polluters.

#COP30 is not a place for #BigPolluters to make business deals!

@stopcorpabuse.bsky.social

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Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · 12d

The #tobaccoindustry targets children and youth in Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan with appealing displays and flavoured products, sold right outside their schools.

Find out more: bit.ly/4mBVztv

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · 20d

📚 Reading Towards Corporate Accountability is back in session!

Join us Oct-Dec for monthly sessions to learn about the corporations propping up and profiting from apartheid and destruction in Palestine. All are welcome — read a lot or a little.

✊ RSVP: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Shauna Curphey @shaunamc.bsky.social · 22d

A civil society win! After the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition exposed the huge presence of fossil fuel lobbyists at COPs 28 and 29, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) now requires non-govt attendees to publicly confirm their full alignment w/ the Paris Agmt and Kyoto Protocol.

Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 BREAKING NEWS

Ahead of #COP30, people power moves UNFCCC to take next steps to address industry interference.

Non-governments must publicly disclose funding and if they are fully aligned with the #UNFCCC.

No more writing the rules of climate action. #KickBigPollutersOut

RELEASE: UN climate regime responds to civil society pressure to address Big Polluter interference in climate action | Kick Big Polluters Out

kickbigpollutersout.org

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 BREAKING NEWS

Ahead of #COP30, people power moves UNFCCC to take next steps to address industry interference.

Non-governments must publicly disclose funding and if they are fully aligned with the #UNFCCC.

No more writing the rules of climate action. #KickBigPollutersOut

RELEASE: UN climate regime responds to civil society pressure to address Big Polluter interference in climate action | Kick Big Polluters Out

kickbigpollutersout.org

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · 26d

“The voluntary carbon market is broken."

A new study provides even more evidence that the voluntary carbon market system is ineffective when it comes to addressing climate change.

‘Independent’ auditors overvalue credits of carbon projects, study finds

A hidden incentive structure may be driving the approval of questionable carbon credits.

news.mongabay.com

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Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) @gcdcj.bsky.social · 28d

Here to disrupt greenwashing, false narratives and build peoples' power. #SystemChange #ClimateJusticeNow

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · Sep 4

From resisting false climate solutions in Latin America to keeping Pittsburgh's water system in public hands, people all across the world are challenging corporations in ways big and small.

📫 Get the latest updates on our allies and campaigns in our #Spotlight newsletter.

Spotlight newsletter: Issue 2, 2025 - Corporate Accountability

Learn more about the impact of your ongoing support in the latest issue of Corporate Accountability's spotlight newsletter.

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · Sep 2

💧 This spring, Pittsburgh residents overwhelmingly voted to keep water in public hands — for generations to come.

Read more about how local organizers successfully resisted corporate attempts to privatize the city's water and sewer system through persistence and collective action.

Victory! Pittsburgh residents protect public water from corporate control

This spring, the people of Pittsburgh voted to keep the city's water system public, a critical victory that will impact generations to come.

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚰 Water should always be for the people, and not profit!

Communities across Latin America have paved the way for local resistance against water privatizing corporations.

🔽 Read more in @tninstitute.bsky.social's latest Writings on Water Democracy.

Writings on water democracy | Transnational Institute

Latin America has a rich history of community water management practices. These water services are democratically designed and delivered in ways that preserve local ecosystems and meet all needs. Desp...

www.tni.org

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · Aug 21

"It’s not just a question of Musk or Trump. It’s about the dysfunctional system that is centered on oppression and exploitation of the vulnerable and colonized for money and driven by war."

Member Julian Kunnie reflects on their role as an activist in the latest issue of our #Spotlight newsletter.

Member spotlight: Julian Kunnie

Julian Kunnie on the importance of staying rooted and connected to the Earth in a system that's driven by colonization and control.

corporateaccountability.org

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · Aug 20

The meat industry is taking a page from the #BigPolluters playbook—partnering with environmental groups to rebrand beef as "climate-friendly."

@desmog.com's latest exposé uncovers how this strategic alliance is helping Big Meat greenwash its massive climate footprint.

Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly

Expert says non-profit partners provide a ‘fairy dust’ of legitimacy to beef industry.

www.desmog.com

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Real Zero Europe @realzeroeurope.bsky.social · Aug 18

🔴 New research from @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social reveals once again that #CarbonOffsets are ineffective and prone to failure.

The voluntary carbon market (#VCM) is sold as a “golden ticket” to net zero… but it’s just a license for polluters to keep polluting

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · Aug 14

The Corporate Hall of Shame ballot is live! Check out this video for a bit more insight into this year's ballot, and then cast your vote!

The 2025 Corporate Hall of Shame ballot is live!

YouTube video by Corporate Accountability

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · Aug 11

“We are not going to save the planet with a snazzy PR spin." — Rachel Rose Jackson, Director of Climate Research & Policy.

Kicking #BigPolluters out of climate spaces includes communications agencies that are fueling the fossil fuel industry's greenwashed narrative.

PR firm working for Shell wins COP30 media contract

As calls grow to keep fossil fuel influence out of UN climate talks, campaigners say Edelman’s partnership with the oil and gas major raises an alarming conflict of interest As calls grow to keep foss...

www.climatechangenews.com

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · Aug 8

Rather than reduce emissions, carbon offsets projects in Kenya and Liberia have led to violence and displacement, creating more harm than good.

ICYMI: New @aausa.bsky.social report dives into the real impacts of carbon offset schemes, particularly to countries in the Global South.

Caution Required: Protecting Communities from Carbon Markets - ActionAid USA

Carbon markets promise quick, easy climate “solutions,” but an ActionAid USA report shows they routinely fail to cut emissions. Instead, they fuel

www.actionaidusa.org

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · Aug 7

Reflecting on the upcoming #COP30 climate talks, lawyer and activist Pablo Fajardo of @udapt.bsky.social writes on the urgent need to end corporate impunity to truly address the climate crisis — and to bring justice to communities worldwide who have been deeply impacted by corporate abuse.

At COP30 & beyond, the fight for climate justice must end corporate impunity (commentary)

The climate crisis demands urgent action by governments to reduce emissions and to transition to new renewable energy systems for people. This means that fossil fuel corporations must be forced to sto...

news.mongabay.com

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚬 Cigarette filters are full of toxins, carcinogens and heavy metals. They are also the most-littered item in the world

#INC52 #PlasticsTreaty - Let's ban cigarette filters.

➡️ Learn more from @ash.org at ash.org/plastic-poll....

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · Aug 4

To truly tackle the problem of plastics pollution, the world's first #PlasticsTreaty must address the tobacco industry's role in this issue.

Read more from Deborah Sy on the #INC52 negotiations, happening this week.

Smoke Signals From The Plastics Treaty: Why Geneva Negotiations Can't Ignore Health Governance - Health Policy Watch

As negotiators prepare to meet in Geneva, 5-14 August in yet another attempt to finalize the United Nations Global Plastics Treaty addressing a pollution

healthpolicy-watch.news

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Corporate Accountability @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · Aug 1

More than 20 years ago, Imperial Brands made a secret deal in Laos that helped keep cigarettes cheap and accessible in a country with one of the highest smoking rates in the world.

This is why we have to #MakeBigTobaccoPay!

How a Secret Tobacco Deal in Laos Enriched a Political Insider

The 2001 deal delivered millions to an in-law of the former president, Bounnhang Vorachit, while blocking tobacco tax hikes for 25 years.

thediplomat.com

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