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MEDIA ADVISORY: Kick Big Polluters Out and UNFCCC Rights-based constituencies condemn fossil fuel enablers at UN climate talks and demand an end to Big Polluter interference

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 302 industrial agriculture (Big Ag) lobbyists representing the world’s largest food and farming companies were given access to the COP30 climate talks in Belém, Brazil.

Members of the global campaign to Kick Big Polluters Out decry the number of Big Ag lobbyists at COP30 and demand: “Stop frying the planet! Kick Big Polluters Out!”

With one in every 25 COP30 attendees a fossil fuel lobbyist, massive industry presence intensifies calls to protect climate negotiations from corporate capture.

Join KBPO members on the ground in Belém at COP30 for a day of action and events exposing and denouncing the number of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP30.

Fossil fuel companies attending recent U.N. climate talks responsible for nearly 60% of global oil and gas production

Attendance of more than 5,350 fossil fuel lobbyists illustrates scale of industry stranglehold as COP30 approaches with absent protections.

Civil society groups and networks representing millions condemn COP30 President Designate's invitation to corporate interests without protections against conflicts of interest, calling it a "dangerous oversight" that threatens climate action