One in every 25 COP30 attendees is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to a new analysis by the Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) coalition.
It found that more than 1600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the UN climate summit in Belém, significantly outnumbering almost every country delegation at the talks. Only the host country, Brazil, has sent more people, with a delegation of 3805.
KPBO says this is a 12 per cent increase from last year’s climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan and is the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP since the coalition started analysing attendees in 2021.
The overall number of fossil fuel representatives at COP30 is less than it was at COP29 in Baku last year, but the proportion is higher as there are fewer people in total attending the talks in Belém.
What counts as a fossil fuel lobbyist?
For its analysis, the KPBO coalition uses the provisional list of COP30 participants published by the UNFCCC on 10 November. It uses only the information provided on this list to determine if a delegate has ties that would qualify them as a fossil fuel lobbyist.
The analysis defines a fossil fuel lobbyist as any delegate who represents an organisation or delegation that aims to influence climate policy in f
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