📢 NEW from InfluenceMap: 50 Years of Consistent Oil & Gas Advocacy Against Renewables and Electric Vehicles 💥 Our new report, published today, finds that some of the world’s most powerful oil and gas associations - The American Petroleum Institute (API), Fuels Europe and Fuels Industry UK - have been using the same playbook of narratives to delay the global energy transition since as early as 1967 💥 In May this year, the US Budget Committee held a hearing entitled 'Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid, Accountability for Climate Change'. This showed more clearly than ever that oil and gas companies have known about the negative impacts of their industry on the climate for the last 50 years. This report can now add a detailed analysis of the narratives that were developed - as early as the 1960s - to safeguard the industry, and how entrenched they have become in the pro-fossil fuel playbook. The three key narratives we identify are: 🛢️Affordability and Energy Security 🛢️Policy Neutrality 🛢️Solution Scepticism The report also challenges the claim made by the fossil fuel industry that consumer demand for oil and gas is ‘outside their control’ by demonstrating the significant and longstanding role the obstructive narratives have played in fuelling demand for their products. Tessa Khan, Exectutive Director of Uplift said in response to the report: "This report shows that even faced with mounting scientific evidence over decades, the oil and gas industry have pushed ahead with a damaging messaging strategy they developed as early as the 1960s. It shows the crucial need for increased awareness of the delaying tactics of fossil fuel companies from policymakers if they are to successfully drive the energy transition forward at the pace we need.” Some more key findings: 🔺 In the US, the API are using these same arguments in many of their recent legal challenges to progressive climate policy - such as their challenge to the EPA tailpipe emission standards. 🔺 In Europe, the associations’ have shifted their tactics over time and begun to use these narratives in more nuanced efforts to ensure support for technology neutral policies, which may still leave room for fossil fuel products. Simultaneously, they continue to use these narratives to oppose policies that solely promote EV or renewable solutions. 🔺 Shell and BP seem to be operating a ‘dual advocacy’ approach on climate, making some positive climate commitments, such as publicly supporting the electrification of light duty vehicles and the phase out of internal combustion engine vehicles, whilst retaining membership of - and paying significant membership fees to - associations that have advocated for 50 years to weaken or halt these same policies. Read our findings in full: https://lnkd.in/gFAJtgYw Dylan Tanner Tom Holen Ed Collins Kitty Hatchley Dario Kenner
also can tag grade A and B law firms from the 2024 LSCA Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard like Cooley LLP and Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP which have so far aced the scorecard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/646e3b899493ae261720e957/888b17f7-4732-4f57-a7cc-cbef07434db1/LSCA+Scorecard+graphic.png?format=1500w
maybe tag the ICJ or Antonio Guterres to make this global news
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