How oil companies bought Australia’s climate policies

Oil and gas companies claiming to support climate change reform initiatives are simultaneously spending billions to stop tougher laws.

Australian oil lobby groups have been
successful in stifling climate-conscious policy. 

And it appears to be working.

The five largest global oil companies – ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and Total – have spent a combined $US1 billion ($1.44 billion) on “misleading climate-related branding and lobbying” in the three years since the Paris Agreement was signed, according to research from InfluenceMap.

It’s money well spent for the companies too, according to Melbourne University politics lecturer George Rennie, whose research into the effectiveness of lobby groups suggests that in Australia, oil and gas companies “get their way a lot of the time”, as a direct result of their lobbying efforts.

Read The New Daily story by Killian Plastow - “How oil companies bought Australia’s climate policies.”