{"id":265838,"date":"2019-03-23T05:56:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T05:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=265838"},"modified":"2019-03-23T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T10:27:34","slug":"energy-giants-spent-usd-1-bn-on-climate-lobbying-pr-since-paris-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/energy-giants-spent-usd-1-bn-on-climate-lobbying-pr-since-paris-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy giants spent USD 1 bn on climate lobbying, PR since Paris: watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five largest publicly listed oil and gas majors have spent USD 1 billion since the 2015 Paris climate deal on public relations or lobbying that is \u201coverwhelmingly in conflict\u201d with the landmark accord\u2019s goals, a watchdog said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite outwardly committing to support the Paris agreement and its aim to limit global temperature rises, ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP and Total spend a total of USD 200 million a year on efforts \u201cto operate and expand fossil fuel operations,\u201d according to InfluenceMap, a pro-transparency monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the companies \u2014 Shell and Chevron \u2014 said they rejected the watchdog\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five largest publicly listed oil and gas majors have spent USD 1 billion since the 2015 Paris climate deal on public relations or lobbying that is \u201coverwhelmingly in conflict\u201d with the landmark accord\u2019s goals, a watchdog said on Friday. Despite outwardly committing to support the Paris agreement and its aim to limit global temperature rises, ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP and Total spend a total of USD 200 million a year on efforts \u201cto operate and expand fossil fuel operations,\u201d according to InfluenceMap, a pro-transparency monitor. Two of the companies \u2014 Shell and Chevron \u2014 said they rejected the watchdog\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}