More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists are registered for the COP30 climate talks underway in Belém, Brazil, according to an analysis by a coalition of environmental and social justice groups.

The group’s review of people granted access to COP30 found that fossil fuel lobbyists at the climate talks outnumber the delegations from nearly every country (only host country Brazil has more people present). According to the analysis, one in every 25 participants at the gathering in Belém represents the fossil fuel industry.

“It is infuriating to watch their influence deepen year after year, making a mockery of the process and of the communities suffering its consequences,” Jax Bongon of the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition said in a statement. Bongon is a resident of the Philippines where a

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