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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
Anti-climate activities:
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
Anti-climate activities:
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
Anti-climate activities:
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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Institutions
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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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