A new investigation confirms the truth long understood by climate-affected communities: global climate negotiations have been quietly captured by the fossil-fuel industry. From Big Oil to coal and gas lobbies, the world’s most polluting corporations have turned the UN climate system into a slow, fragile, consensus-driven process that prioritises corporate profits over planetary survival. By exploiting the “consensus rule,” fossil-fuel aligned nations and interests can block any serious climate action — including the global fossil-fuel phase-out that science has demanded for decades.
This sabotage hits countries like India the hardest. We are living through relentless heatwaves, deadly floods, crop failures, and rising sea levels — while the very industry responsible for this crisis shapes the language, limits the ambition, and influences the outcomes of COP summits. Meanwhile, governments that bow to corporate pressure weaken local safeguards, suppress people’s movements, and fast-track destructive projects.
The climate crisis is no accident. It is the predictable consequence of fossil-fuel power over global governance. Real climate justice will come only when people — not polluters — set the agenda.
