📢BREAKING: 95% of #COP27 sponsors have ties to the fossil fuel industry 📢
New research by @StopCorpAbuse @corporateeurope shows how 18 out 20 sponsors are linked to climate-wrecking fossil fuel corps.
Read the summary and then dig into each sponsor in this thread 🧵👇🏽
New research by @StopCorpAbuse @corporateeurope shows how 18 out 20 sponsors are linked to climate-wrecking fossil fuel corps.
Read the summary and then dig into each sponsor in this thread 🧵👇🏽
#COP27 sponsors include
🏦 Banks like @afreximbank @MashreqTweets
💽 Silicon valley beasts like @Microsoft @Cisco @IBM @Google
📶 Communication giant @VodafoneGroup
✈️ Airline @EGYPTAIR
🚘 Car company @GM
🫗 And of course @CocaCola
+ many more
🏦 Banks like @afreximbank @MashreqTweets
💽 Silicon valley beasts like @Microsoft @Cisco @IBM @Google
📶 Communication giant @VodafoneGroup
✈️ Airline @EGYPTAIR
🚘 Car company @GM
🫗 And of course @CocaCola
+ many more
📶@VodafoneGroup 📶
The UK telecoms company built a private 5G network for the oil&gas sector
enterpriseiotinsights.com/20200806/chann…
Oh... and its chairman, Gerard Kleisterlee, served as Deputy Chair of Directors on @Shell’s Board for 9 years.
vodafone.com/overlays/gerar…
#PollutersOut
The UK telecoms company built a private 5G network for the oil&gas sector
enterpriseiotinsights.com/20200806/chann…
Oh... and its chairman, Gerard Kleisterlee, served as Deputy Chair of Directors on @Shell’s Board for 9 years.
vodafone.com/overlays/gerar…
#PollutersOut
🌐Mansour Group🌐
The Egyptian family business is now a global power.
It describes itself as “no stranger to oil&gas” having spent decades selling drilling equipment.
It plans to “take a more proactive role in this lucrative field.” mansour.adigitalrepublic.com/Industries/Oil…
#PollutersOut
The Egyptian family business is now a global power.
It describes itself as “no stranger to oil&gas” having spent decades selling drilling equipment.
It plans to “take a more proactive role in this lucrative field.” mansour.adigitalrepublic.com/Industries/Oil…
#PollutersOut
💻 @Microsoft 💻
The US tech firm is the oil & gas industry's biggest tech-partner, helping them optimise their fossil fuel extractivism corporateeurope.org/en/2021/10/sti…
Its own workers went on strike over its collaboration with the industry!
theverge.com/2019/9/19/2087…
#PollutersOut
The US tech firm is the oil & gas industry's biggest tech-partner, helping them optimise their fossil fuel extractivism corporateeurope.org/en/2021/10/sti…
Its own workers went on strike over its collaboration with the industry!
theverge.com/2019/9/19/2087…
#PollutersOut
🏦 @afreximbank 🏦
In May 2022, the African Export Import Bank struck a deal to create a multi-billion dollar energy bank that will finance existing and new oil and gas projects.
newsnreleases.com/2022/05/17/afr…
#PollutersOut
In May 2022, the African Export Import Bank struck a deal to create a multi-billion dollar energy bank that will finance existing and new oil and gas projects.
newsnreleases.com/2022/05/17/afr…
#PollutersOut
🫗 @CocaCola 🫗
The US behemoth has been the world’s top plastic polluter 5⃣ years in a row.
It produces 120 billion throwaway plastic bottles a year, 99% of which are made from fossil fuels.
ciel.org/wp-content/upl…
The US behemoth has been the world’s top plastic polluter 5⃣ years in a row.
It produces 120 billion throwaway plastic bottles a year, 99% of which are made from fossil fuels.
ciel.org/wp-content/upl…
💽 @Cisco 💽
The US tech company has historically been a partner to the oil & gas industry in providing communications services.
It is now considered one of the leading companies to provide cybersecurity services to the industry.
knoxreports.com/cyber-security…
#PollutersOut
The US tech company has historically been a partner to the oil & gas industry in providing communications services.
It is now considered one of the leading companies to provide cybersecurity services to the industry.
knoxreports.com/cyber-security…
#PollutersOut
🖥️ @IBM 🖥️
The silicon valley giant is researching novel Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (#CCUS) techniques, a technology promoted by the fossil fuel industry to allow the continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels. research.ibm.com/publications/a…
#PollutersOut
The silicon valley giant is researching novel Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (#CCUS) techniques, a technology promoted by the fossil fuel industry to allow the continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels. research.ibm.com/publications/a…
#PollutersOut
🏦 Mashreq 🏦
The oldest private bank in the UAE, @MashreqTweets helps multinationals refinance their oil & gas development/facilities reuters.com/markets/rates-…
It continues to push for fossil fuels through the energy transition mashreqbank.com/uae/en/multime…
#PollutersOut
The oldest private bank in the UAE, @MashreqTweets helps multinationals refinance their oil & gas development/facilities reuters.com/markets/rates-…
It continues to push for fossil fuels through the energy transition mashreqbank.com/uae/en/multime…
#PollutersOut
⌨️ @Google ⌨️
The US tech firm allows oil & gas giants to greenwash their image by letting them buy the top search result when people looked up sustainability-related terms on its search engine. euronews.com/green/2022/11/…
#PollutersOut
The US tech firm allows oil & gas giants to greenwash their image by letting them buy the top search result when people looked up sustainability-related terms on its search engine. euronews.com/green/2022/11/…
#PollutersOut
✈️ @EGYPTAIR ✈️
Enough said 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
#PollutersOut
Enough said 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
https://twitter.com/pascoesabido/status/1587837341376258053
#PollutersOut
💼 Adsero – Ragy Soliman & Partners 💼
The Egypt-based law firm has its own Energy, Environment and Natural Resources (EENR) practice group, with multiple senior staff advising clients on oil and gas.
adsero.me/member/malak-k…
#PollutersOut
The Egypt-based law firm has its own Energy, Environment and Natural Resources (EENR) practice group, with multiple senior staff advising clients on oil and gas.
adsero.me/member/malak-k…
#PollutersOut
🏭 @siemensenergy 🏭
The German multinational is well-established in the world of gas-fired power plants, supplying everything from "core turbine only" to "gas turbine packages" all the way up to "complete gas-fired power plants”. siemens-energy.com/global/en/offe…
#PollutersOut
The German multinational is well-established in the world of gas-fired power plants, supplying everything from "core turbine only" to "gas turbine packages" all the way up to "complete gas-fired power plants”. siemens-energy.com/global/en/offe…
#PollutersOut
🛢️Hassan Allam Holdings🛢️
One of Egypt's largest privately-owned corporations, it wants to make North Africa “a regional hub for natural gas.”
It plans to invest $830m + $17.1bn in oil + gas respectively through to 2024 hassanallam.com/construction/g…
#PollutersOut
One of Egypt's largest privately-owned corporations, it wants to make North Africa “a regional hub for natural gas.”
It plans to invest $830m + $17.1bn in oil + gas respectively through to 2024 hassanallam.com/construction/g…
#PollutersOut
🧑🏽🏭 @Siemens🧑🏽🏭
The German-based giant operates and maintains one of the world’s largest gas-fired power plants in Egypt, built in 2018 by fellow sponsor Orascom Construction.
press.siemens.com/global/en/feat…
The German-based giant operates and maintains one of the world’s largest gas-fired power plants in Egypt, built in 2018 by fellow sponsor Orascom Construction.
press.siemens.com/global/en/feat…
🕴🏽♂️Boston Consulting Group 🕴🏽♂️
More about @BCG at #COP27 here:
More about @BCG at #COP27 here:
https://twitter.com/pascoesabido/status/1587837332060864512
🚘 General Motors 🚘
US car company @GM has been a major driver of fossil fuel consumption globally.
Despite publicly supporting 1.5oC it has lobbied the Biden administration to weaken emissions standards on road vehicles
lobbymap.org/company/Genera…
#PollutersOut
US car company @GM has been a major driver of fossil fuel consumption globally.
Despite publicly supporting 1.5oC it has lobbied the Biden administration to weaken emissions standards on road vehicles
lobbymap.org/company/Genera…
#PollutersOut
💰 @Bloomberg philanthropies 💰
The US funder finances a global scheme for voluntary #carbonmarkets, with @bp_plc on its board.
Described as how Big Oil can "profit from the climate crisis while maintaining business as usual” redd-monitor.org/2021/01/26/mar…
#PollutersOut
The US funder finances a global scheme for voluntary #carbonmarkets, with @bp_plc on its board.
Described as how Big Oil can "profit from the climate crisis while maintaining business as usual” redd-monitor.org/2021/01/26/mar…
#PollutersOut
👷🏽 Orascom Construction 👷🏽
The Cairo-based multinational built one of the world’s largest gas-fired power plants in Egypt in 2018 orascom.com/projects/burul…
That's just one of multiple gas plants it has built in the country.
#PollutersOut
The Cairo-based multinational built one of the world’s largest gas-fired power plants in Egypt in 2018 orascom.com/projects/burul…
That's just one of multiple gas plants it has built in the country.
#PollutersOut
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