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COP17, United Nations Climate Change Conference

28 November - 9 December 2011

The Dirty Dozen

in Durban

The Dirty Dozen are the top representatives of those

corporate polluters that are holding us back from a global

deal to limit and reverse GHG emissions worldwide.Greenpeaces report Whos Holding Us Back? has

documented the global effort, often well coordinated, to

limit, reduce or eliminate regulation and legislation that

would reduce GHG emissions.

The companies represented on the Dirty Dozen list have,

directly and indirectly through their lobbying subsidiaries

engaged or are currently engaged in the following

activities:

Lobbied in Japan against a 2nd commitment period of

the Kyoto Protocol

Undermined climate legislation in Canada

Undermined EU climate legislation, including a 30%

reduction target for 2020

Undermined US climate and energy legislation

Campaigned for more access for companies to

influence the architecture of an international climate

agreement (under their CAPP and WBCSD trade

groups)

Campaigned against the Australian carbon tax and are

expected to get over 94 % of their emissions exemption.

Campaigning to keep South Africa addicted to coal and

campaigning against a carbon tax.

1. Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell

2. Lorraine Mitchelmore, CEO, Shell Canada

3. David Collyer, President,

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

4. Thomas Donohue, President and CEO,

US Chamber of Commerce

5. Lakshmi Mittal, Chairman and CEO,ArcelorMittal

6. Jrgen R. Thumann, President, BusinessEurope

7. David and Charles Koch, Koch Industries

8. Marius Kloppers, CEO, BHP Billiton

9. Dr. Kurt Bock, Chairman of the Board of

Executive Directors, BASF

10. Jean-Guy Carrier, Secretary-General,

International Chamber of Commerce

11. Jack N Gerard, President,

American Petroleum Institute12. Brian Dames, CEO, Eskom


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Royal Dutch Shell / Shell Canada

Member of ICC, WBCSD, CAPP,

BusinessEurope, US Chamber of Commerce,

American Petroleum Institute1, Cefic,

Petroleum Association of Japan

Anti-climate activities:

Actions against: Increase of the 2020

target in the EU to 30%; Canadian climatelegislation; EU regulation on cleaner fuels

through Canadian government; campaigning

in favour of privileged access in international

negotiations; supports and funds anti-science

climate denial.

Member of WBCSD, American Petroleum

Institute2, BusinessEurope, Eurofer, Energy

Intensive Users Group of Southern Africa

Anti-climate activities:Actions against: 30% 2020 target in the EU;

US climate and energy legislation; Canadian

climate legislation; campaigning in favour of

privileged access in international negotiations;

supported strategically US Senate candidates

who have been outspoken in their opposition

to comprehensive climate policy in the US, and

candidates who actively deny the scientific

consensus that climate change is happening

and is caused by people.

Member of ICC, CAPP, BusinessEurope3 , US

Chamber of Commerce, American Petroleum

Institute, Cefic


Actions against: 30% 2020 target in the EU; US

climate and energy legislation; Canadian climate

legislation; EU regulation on cleaner fuels through

Canadian government; campaigning in favour

of privileged access in international negotiations;

supports and funds anti-science climate denial.

Member of CAPP, American Petroleum

Institute4 , ICC5


Actions against: US climate and energy

legislation; Canadian climate legislation; EU

regulation on cleaner fuels through Canadian

government; supports and funds anti-science

climate denial.

Member of WBCSD, BusinessEurope, Cefic


Actions against: 30% 2020 target in the EU;

US climate and energy legislation; Canadian

climate legislation; EU regulation on cleaner

fuels through Canadian government;

campaigning in favour of privileged accessin international negotiations; supported

strategically US Senate candidates who

have been outspoken in their opposition to

comprehensive climate policy in the US, and

candidates who actively deny the scientific

consensus that climate change is happening

and is caused by people .

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International Chamber of Commerce6

Members include RWE, Shell, ExxonMobil,

Chevron

World Business Council for SustainableDevelopment7

Members include ESKOM, APRIL, TEPCO,

BASF, E.ON, Volkswagen, ArcelorMittal, Royal

Dutch Shell, BP, Petrobras.

Canadian Association of Petroleum

Producers

Members include Shell Canada Limited,

ExxonMobil Canada Ltd, Koch Exploration

Canada LP, ConocoPhilips Canada, Chevron

Canada Resources.

Were focused on finding new technologies

like carbon capture and storage, and Toe-to-

Heel Air Injection (THAI) to make [reduced

emissions] happen.8

Possibly the most astonishing and brazen

lobbying effort was the CAPP-organised

lobbying of European officials on tar sands by

Canadian government officials. The Canadian

government is fully captured by the fossil fuel

interests.

BusinessEurope9

Members with a special partner status include

ArcelorMittal, Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil,

BASF. Business Europes climate change

working group chair, Nick Campbell, used to

be the climate change chair of the ICC.

any further increase in the EUs unilateral

20% emission reduction target would be

premature and even counterproductive.10

Purports to speak on behalf of all its members

when actually just representing the interests of

a few carbon-intensive sectors.

US Chamber of Commerce

Claims to have millions of company members,

but among them are Royal Dutch Shell and

ConocoPhilips.

...the Chamber will tell the EPA in a filing

today that a trial-style public hearing on

the science of climate change is needed to

make a fully informed, transparent decision

with scientific integrity based on the actual

record of the science. William Kovacs,

the Chambers senior vice president for

environment, technology and regulatory

affairs, told the Los Angeles Times this hearing

would be the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st

century.11

There are profound and wide-ranging

scientific uncertainties about climate change

and its impacts on health and welfare that

are vehemently controverted (sic) among

scientists and technicians of numerous

stripes.12

Climate denial; large political contributions

to politicians that will block climate progress;

waging a campaign against ozone pollution

regulation.

American Petroleum Institute

Members include US branches of

ArcelorMittal, BHP Billiton, BP, ExxonMobil,

PetroBras, Shell, Siemens Energy Division

emissions from [the production and use of oil

and gas] may be helping to warm our planet

by enhancing the natural greenhouse effect

of the atmosphere. While companies must

continue to meet the demands of todays and

tomorrows consumers for oil and gas, they are

also preparing for a future in which alternatives

will play a much more significant role.13

Funding climate denial and fake science14,

scaremongering citizens over the economic

impacts of addressing climate change,

participation in the revolving door betweenpolitics and government, funding and

organising anti-environment propaganda and

fake citizen campaigns15.

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1Through Shell Oil Company.

2Through ArcelorMittal USA.

3 BusinessEurope members are trade associations, the companies listed here are associated with BusinessEurope through these trade

associations and activities.

4 Through subsidiaries Colonial Pipeline Company and Alyeska Pipeline Service Company.

5Through subsidiary Georgia-Pacific.

6 International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) (2011). Links to a selection of ICC member companies: http://www.iccwbo.org/id19696/index.html.

Accessed 4 November 2011.

7 World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) (2011). Full list of members by region: http://www.wbcsd.org/about/members-

list-region.aspx. Accessed 4 November 2011.

8 Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (2011). Air & Climate Change. Accessed 15 September 2011.

http://www.capp.ca/environmentCommunity/airClimateChange/Pages/default.aspx#KOeJQ88obBVL

9 BusinessEurope (2011). Corporate Advisory and Support Group. http://www.businesseurope.eu/content/default.asp?pageid=604

10BusinessEurope (2010). Press Release: Climate Change can only be tackled globally.19 October 2010.

11Johnson B (2009). US Chamber of Commerce calls for Scopes Monkey Trial on climate change . Grist. 25 August 2009.

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-08-25-chamber-calls-for-scopes-monkey-trial-on-climate-change

12Sheppard K (2009). Chamber: global warming is good for you. Mother Jones. 2 October 2009.

13American Petroleum Institute (2011). Climate Change. 8 April 2011.

http://www.api.org/ehs/climate/index.cfm

14Greenpeace USA (2011). Koch Industries: Still Fueling Climate Denial.

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Global/usa/planet3/publications/gwe/Koch-Ind-Still-Fueling-Climate-Denial.pdf

15Walker J (1998). API memo. April 1998.

http://www.euronet.nl/users/e_wesker/ew@shell/API-prop.html

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