How the fossil fuel lobby is hijacking the European Green Deal, 8 July 2020

Today [8 July] the European Commission is presenting its Hydrogen strategy. It aims to contribute to the European Green Deal (EGD), and “to help the EU recover from COVID-19’s economic impact”.

But while officially prioritising green hydrogen (made of renewable energy), the Hydrogen strategy keeps the door firmly open to hydrogen made with fossil fuels...

A Corporate Europe Observatory report published yesterday explores the dirty fingerprints of the fossil fuel lobby over the EGD, the number one lobby topic in Brussels.

In the first 100 days after its launch, top Commission officials in charge of the EGD met 29 times with representatives of the public interest and 151 times with business lobbyists, around 11 meetings a week. However, the number is likely to be even higher given that limited transparency rules only cover the top one per cent of officials, so we do not know how many lobby meetings below this level have taken place, nor what is being discussed.