Looney and four other BP employees attended the ongoing meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, as delegates from the West African state of Mauritania, the BBC reported on Friday. The Sahel region, to which Mauritania belongs, is particularly badly affected by climate change, and the majority of people live in poverty.
BP confirmed to the BBC that it had been invited by Mauritania to a ceremony to sign an agreement. It was about the development of plants for the production of green hydrogen in the country. In the meantime they have left again.
According to an evaluation by the organization Global Witness and the Corporate Europe Observatory, the influence of oil and gas lobbyists at the world climate conference has increased significantly. Accordingly, this time 636 lobbyists for oil, gas and coal are registered – 25 percent more than at the meeting last year in Scotland. This means that the fossil fuel industry is more strongly represented in Sharm el Sheikh than the ten countries most affected by the impending climate catastrophe. Global Witness’ Alice Harrison described it as “bizarre” that the BP representatives arrived as part of the Mauritanian delegation.
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