Vicky Cann
@vickycann.bsky.social
Campaigner for @corporateeurope.org Working on #PFAS #BigToxics #Chemicals #Deregulation #LobbyFacts #PrivilegedAccess
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National bans on #PFAS can be quicker, have important benefits for citizens, and can help build political momentum. But we also need a properly universal restriction on PFAS at the EU level which will also tackle industrial uses of PFAS. Check out @chemtrust.bsky.social briefing below.
#BanPFAS
#BanPFAS
💪 Strong national action on #PFAS drives real change.
‼️ However, so far, national bans mainly target consumer products.
📈 They do not address industrial uses of PFAS, which are a major source of emissions.
‼️ However, so far, national bans mainly target consumer products.
📈 They do not address industrial uses of PFAS, which are a major source of emissions.
November 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
National bans on #PFAS can be quicker, have important benefits for citizens, and can help build political momentum. But we also need a properly universal restriction on PFAS at the EU level which will also tackle industrial uses of PFAS. Check out @chemtrust.bsky.social briefing below.
#BanPFAS
#BanPFAS
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🤫 Can’t make it tomorrow?
Watch the Global online screening instead on 3 Dec at 19h00: corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-global-premiere
Watch the Global online screening instead on 3 Dec at 19h00: corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-global-premiere
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🤫 Can’t make it tomorrow?
Watch the Global online screening instead on 3 Dec at 19h00: corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-global-premiere
Watch the Global online screening instead on 3 Dec at 19h00: corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-global-premiere
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The documentary and the affected communities raise the question of why the EU must produce hydrogen in countries that will not be able to use it, instead of on its own lands. This is why many civil society groups are calling for the complete stop to green hydrogen imports in the EU.
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The documentary and the affected communities raise the question of why the EU must produce hydrogen in countries that will not be able to use it, instead of on its own lands. This is why many civil society groups are calling for the complete stop to green hydrogen imports in the EU.
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The EU plans to import vast quantities of green hydrogen from South Africa. But indigenous and marginalised communities have barely been consulted on hydrogen production projects that can radically affect their health and livelihoods.
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The EU plans to import vast quantities of green hydrogen from South Africa. But indigenous and marginalised communities have barely been consulted on hydrogen production projects that can radically affect their health and livelihoods.
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🍿Last chance to catch the premiere of CEO’s documentary “The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa” featuring the voices and stories of some of the most affected communities in South Africa that are being ignored by EU politicians.
📅 27Nov
📍 Cinema Vendôme, Brussels
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/event/4
📅 27Nov
📍 Cinema Vendôme, Brussels
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/event/4
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🍿Last chance to catch the premiere of CEO’s documentary “The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa” featuring the voices and stories of some of the most affected communities in South Africa that are being ignored by EU politicians.
📅 27Nov
📍 Cinema Vendôme, Brussels
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/event/4
📅 27Nov
📍 Cinema Vendôme, Brussels
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/event/4
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Last week Conservative & far right MEPs pushed through Omnibus package that weakens 3 corporate sustainability laws
Omnibus decision-making was clear corporate capture ⚠️
Legal experts warn that Omnibus I may be illegal 💥
Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Omnibus decision-making was clear corporate capture ⚠️
Legal experts warn that Omnibus I may be illegal 💥
Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Deregulation Watch | Corporate Europe Observatory
Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environme...
www.corporateeurope.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Last week Conservative & far right MEPs pushed through Omnibus package that weakens 3 corporate sustainability laws
Omnibus decision-making was clear corporate capture ⚠️
Legal experts warn that Omnibus I may be illegal 💥
Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Omnibus decision-making was clear corporate capture ⚠️
Legal experts warn that Omnibus I may be illegal 💥
Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
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The plant, would make ethylene for plastics manufacture - likely to cause ammonia, ozone, nitrogen oxide + PM2.5 pollution - linked to increased cases of heart + breathing conditions - and carcinogenic VOCs - risking people's health says @clientearth.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The plant, would make ethylene for plastics manufacture - likely to cause ammonia, ozone, nitrogen oxide + PM2.5 pollution - linked to increased cases of heart + breathing conditions - and carcinogenic VOCs - risking people's health says @clientearth.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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BREAKING: EU Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu says “We are not fighting fossil fuels, we are fighting the emissions from fossil fuels”
She is parroting oil&gas industry lines, pushing unproven costly technologies like CCS + CO2 removals to keep using fossil fuels.
#FossilFreePolitics
She is parroting oil&gas industry lines, pushing unproven costly technologies like CCS + CO2 removals to keep using fossil fuels.
#FossilFreePolitics
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November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
BREAKING: EU Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu says “We are not fighting fossil fuels, we are fighting the emissions from fossil fuels”
She is parroting oil&gas industry lines, pushing unproven costly technologies like CCS + CO2 removals to keep using fossil fuels.
#FossilFreePolitics
She is parroting oil&gas industry lines, pushing unproven costly technologies like CCS + CO2 removals to keep using fossil fuels.
#FossilFreePolitics
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Not surprised to see Gibson Dunn jumping on this case -- championing "corporate free speech" is kinda their thing. www.exxonknews.org/p/the-law-fi...
of course they want to get this issue in front of the Supreme Court (credit to @amywestervelt.bsky.social for warning us all on that one)
of course they want to get this issue in front of the Supreme Court (credit to @amywestervelt.bsky.social for warning us all on that one)
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Not surprised to see Gibson Dunn jumping on this case -- championing "corporate free speech" is kinda their thing. www.exxonknews.org/p/the-law-fi...
of course they want to get this issue in front of the Supreme Court (credit to @amywestervelt.bsky.social for warning us all on that one)
of course they want to get this issue in front of the Supreme Court (credit to @amywestervelt.bsky.social for warning us all on that one)
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It's time to #KickOutTheSuits. Concretely, we need an Accountability Framework to protect the UN climate talks from the influence of big polluters and their conflicts of interest. That's what we'll keep fighting for!
#KickBigPollutersOut
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
#KickBigPollutersOut
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
November 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
It's time to #KickOutTheSuits. Concretely, we need an Accountability Framework to protect the UN climate talks from the influence of big polluters and their conflicts of interest. That's what we'll keep fighting for!
#KickBigPollutersOut
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
#KickBigPollutersOut
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
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Several Global North countries included fossil fuel representatives within their official delegations, including France, Japan, and Norway - @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social has a breakdown of the EU level.
#COP30
#KickOutTheSuits
#KickBigPollutersOut
#COP30
#KickOutTheSuits
#KickBigPollutersOut
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Several Global North countries included fossil fuel representatives within their official delegations, including France, Japan, and Norway - @fossilfreeeu.bsky.social has a breakdown of the EU level.
#COP30
#KickOutTheSuits
#KickBigPollutersOut
#COP30
#KickOutTheSuits
#KickBigPollutersOut
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Approximately 599 lobbyists were brought in by our national governments, known as "parties" in UN speak. They used "Party overflow badges" that allow access to behind-the-scenes government-only areas of the U.N. climate negotiations. Perfect if you want to delay or disrupt climate action.
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Approximately 599 lobbyists were brought in by our national governments, known as "parties" in UN speak. They used "Party overflow badges" that allow access to behind-the-scenes government-only areas of the U.N. climate negotiations. Perfect if you want to delay or disrupt climate action.
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Major trade associations remain a primary vehicle for fossil fuel influence, with the International Emissions Trading Association bringing 60 representatives, including delegates from oil and gas giants like ExxonMobil, BP, and TotalEnergies.
#COP30
#KickOutTheSuits
#KickBigPollutersOut
#COP30
#KickOutTheSuits
#KickBigPollutersOut
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Major trade associations remain a primary vehicle for fossil fuel influence, with the International Emissions Trading Association bringing 60 representatives, including delegates from oil and gas giants like ExxonMobil, BP, and TotalEnergies.
#COP30
#KickOutTheSuits
#KickBigPollutersOut
#COP30
#KickOutTheSuits
#KickBigPollutersOut
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Fossil fuel companies like Equinor and E.ON have received two thirds more passes to #COP30 than all the delegates from the 10 most climate-vulnerable nations combined, highlighting how industry presence continues to overshadow that of those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Fossil fuel companies like Equinor and E.ON have received two thirds more passes to #COP30 than all the delegates from the 10 most climate-vulnerable nations combined, highlighting how industry presence continues to overshadow that of those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
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The Philippines and Jamaica are still reeling from devastating typhoons and hurricanes, but their delegations at #COP30 have been outnumbered by fossil fuel lobbyists by nearly 50 to 1 and 40 to 1 respectively.
#KickOutTheSuits
#KickOutTheSuits
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The Philippines and Jamaica are still reeling from devastating typhoons and hurricanes, but their delegations at #COP30 have been outnumbered by fossil fuel lobbyists by nearly 50 to 1 and 40 to 1 respectively.
#KickOutTheSuits
#KickOutTheSuits
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📣 BREAKING: One out of every 25 attendees walking around the #COP30 climate talks is a fossil fuel lobbyist.
New research from #KickBigPollutersOut reveals there are more than 1,600 in the UN negotiations in Brazil.
Here's a thread with the top findings 🧵
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
New research from #KickBigPollutersOut reveals there are more than 1,600 in the UN negotiations in Brazil.
Here's a thread with the top findings 🧵
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
📣 BREAKING: One out of every 25 attendees walking around the #COP30 climate talks is a fossil fuel lobbyist.
New research from #KickBigPollutersOut reveals there are more than 1,600 in the UN negotiations in Brazil.
Here's a thread with the top findings 🧵
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
New research from #KickBigPollutersOut reveals there are more than 1,600 in the UN negotiations in Brazil.
Here's a thread with the top findings 🧵
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
"Babiš’s several hundred companies, most under the Agrofert umbrella, operate in the Czech Republic and other central European countries, benefiting from tens of millions of euros in national and EU farming and other subsidies, as well as public contracts."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘Trumpist’ Czech PM-elect refuses to sell business empire amid conflict-of-interest row
Billionaire populist Andrej Babiš insists he will meet legal obligations before taking office but does not explain how
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"Babiš’s several hundred companies, most under the Agrofert umbrella, operate in the Czech Republic and other central European countries, benefiting from tens of millions of euros in national and EU farming and other subsidies, as well as public contracts."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Read more on Bayer's big pockets and dirty tactics at the climate COP in our article:
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/b...
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/b...
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Read more on Bayer's big pockets and dirty tactics at the climate COP in our article:
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/b...
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/b...
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For agrochemical giant Bayer COP30 is a golden opportunity to greenwash its image. Bayer is one of the major sponsors of the AgriZone of COP30. But farmers and landworkers movement MST has called them out: mst.org.br/2025/11/11/m...
MST denuncia agronegócio em espaço da COP 30 - MST
Site oficial do MST - Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, contendo informações sobre Reforma Agrária, Agroecologia e Agricultura Familiar e Camponesa.
mst.org.br
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
For agrochemical giant Bayer COP30 is a golden opportunity to greenwash its image. Bayer is one of the major sponsors of the AgriZone of COP30. But farmers and landworkers movement MST has called them out: mst.org.br/2025/11/11/m...
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👉📣👽 Watch this !
Today at #COP30 People's Summit in Belém, a huge inflatable is on display, making the link between pesticide use and the climate/biodiversity crisis caused by Big Polluters like #Bayer #BASF #Syngenta #Croplife.
☠️ #Pesticides: Heating the Planet, Poisoning the Future
Today at #COP30 People's Summit in Belém, a huge inflatable is on display, making the link between pesticide use and the climate/biodiversity crisis caused by Big Polluters like #Bayer #BASF #Syngenta #Croplife.
☠️ #Pesticides: Heating the Planet, Poisoning the Future
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Get these timings in your schedule now!
🚨 Kick Big #PollutersOut at COP30 tomorrow 🚨
📈 Data drops on how many fossil fuel lobbyists are in Belém
⏰ 12pm CET - Action - "Kick Out the Suits"
🎤 3pm CET - Press conference - on data and actions
🗣️ 8:45 CET - side event Protect! Reform! Deliver!
✊✊✊
kickbigpollutersout.org/Kick-Out-The...
📈 Data drops on how many fossil fuel lobbyists are in Belém
⏰ 12pm CET - Action - "Kick Out the Suits"
🎤 3pm CET - Press conference - on data and actions
🗣️ 8:45 CET - side event Protect! Reform! Deliver!
✊✊✊
kickbigpollutersout.org/Kick-Out-The...
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Get these timings in your schedule now!
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🧐 Curious about how Big Tech is lobbying to influence EU decision-making?
🍟 Join us on a lobby tour of the European Quarter in Brussels!
When: Friday 14/11 10 o'clock
We only have a few spots available, so be fast!
Registration: ceo[at]corporateeurope.org
🍟 Join us on a lobby tour of the European Quarter in Brussels!
When: Friday 14/11 10 o'clock
We only have a few spots available, so be fast!
Registration: ceo[at]corporateeurope.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🧐 Curious about how Big Tech is lobbying to influence EU decision-making?
🍟 Join us on a lobby tour of the European Quarter in Brussels!
When: Friday 14/11 10 o'clock
We only have a few spots available, so be fast!
Registration: ceo[at]corporateeurope.org
🍟 Join us on a lobby tour of the European Quarter in Brussels!
When: Friday 14/11 10 o'clock
We only have a few spots available, so be fast!
Registration: ceo[at]corporateeurope.org
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PR firm Edelman is running comms for COP30 while earning 💰💰💰 from fossil fuel clients...
"It is absurd and dangerous to have the same person, literally, writing talking points for Shell and the UN Climate Talks at the same time” says @cleancreatives.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"It is absurd and dangerous to have the same person, literally, writing talking points for Shell and the UN Climate Talks at the same time” says @cleancreatives.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30 live: US looms over talks despite absence as protests at venue continue
Day three at the Belem summit is expected to see more protests as crucial climate negotiations begin in earnest
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
PR firm Edelman is running comms for COP30 while earning 💰💰💰 from fossil fuel clients...
"It is absurd and dangerous to have the same person, literally, writing talking points for Shell and the UN Climate Talks at the same time” says @cleancreatives.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"It is absurd and dangerous to have the same person, literally, writing talking points for Shell and the UN Climate Talks at the same time” says @cleancreatives.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🙌We are joining 127 organisations demanding the Commission to halt its highly damaging digital omnibus.
The Commission's leaked proposal threatens to:
❌Pause the AI Act
❌Weaken the GDPR to enable AI companies to hoover up personal data
This would be a major Big Tech win
👉 edri.org/wp-content/u...
The Commission's leaked proposal threatens to:
❌Pause the AI Act
❌Weaken the GDPR to enable AI companies to hoover up personal data
This would be a major Big Tech win
👉 edri.org/wp-content/u...
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🙌We are joining 127 organisations demanding the Commission to halt its highly damaging digital omnibus.
The Commission's leaked proposal threatens to:
❌Pause the AI Act
❌Weaken the GDPR to enable AI companies to hoover up personal data
This would be a major Big Tech win
👉 edri.org/wp-content/u...
The Commission's leaked proposal threatens to:
❌Pause the AI Act
❌Weaken the GDPR to enable AI companies to hoover up personal data
This would be a major Big Tech win
👉 edri.org/wp-content/u...
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Lobbyists for Big Tech now outnumber MEPs
On average, there are 3 meetings a day between Big Tech lobbyists + senior EU figures. Meanwhile an NGO fighting to stop people's water supplies being hoovered up by data centres will wait months to get a single meeting.
A fascinating listen 👇
On average, there are 3 meetings a day between Big Tech lobbyists + senior EU figures. Meanwhile an NGO fighting to stop people's water supplies being hoovered up by data centres will wait months to get a single meeting.
A fascinating listen 👇
💸 Do you know how much money Big Tech is spending on lobbying in Brussels? How has this amount been increasing? On what is the money being funnelled to and what can we do about it?
📻 Listen to our new #podcast episode to find out 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/t...
📻 Listen to our new #podcast episode to find out 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/t...
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Lobbyists for Big Tech now outnumber MEPs
On average, there are 3 meetings a day between Big Tech lobbyists + senior EU figures. Meanwhile an NGO fighting to stop people's water supplies being hoovered up by data centres will wait months to get a single meeting.
A fascinating listen 👇
On average, there are 3 meetings a day between Big Tech lobbyists + senior EU figures. Meanwhile an NGO fighting to stop people's water supplies being hoovered up by data centres will wait months to get a single meeting.
A fascinating listen 👇