For many climate change activists, this is in part due to an unwillingness and inability by lawmakers to take on influential corporate lobbyists to the extent required to adequately tackle global warming.
This claim is supported by a recent investigation carried out by InfluenceMap.org, a U.K.-based NGO which revealed that nearly half of the world’s top 100 global companies are trying to subvert climate policies by lobbying, advertising, and influence peddling. >>
COP21 family photograph of state and government leaders at the opening day of the conference at Le Bourget in Paris. (photo: Jacky Naegelen/Getty Images)
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