New research by the Fossil Free Politics campaign reveals a concerted lobbying effort by the fossil fuel industry during Covid-19 to win concessions for climate-damaging energy schemes, gain access to bailout funds, and weaken environmental standards. This is undermining climate action, the EU Green Deal and green recovery.
Bailing out fossil fuels is giving a free rein to polluting coal, oil and gas companies, and is incompatible with climate action.