New Delhi: There are more than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists at the ongoing COP30 in Brazil, the biggest share in proportion to other delegates than at any other COP in history, according to Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO), a global coalition of more than 450 organisations that are demanding an end to the ability of big polluters to write the rules of climate action.

Except for Brazil, fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber every other country’s delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)’s 30th annual conference (COP30).

“The number of fossil fuel lobbyists present at this conference makes it very clear whose voices are being heard, whose aren’t, who is in control of power and who is given access to make decisions on climate issues,” KBPO coordinator Rachel Ro

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