Pascoe Sabido
@pascoesabido.bsky.social
Exposing the power of corporate lobbying in the EU for Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope.bsky.social, esp around climate, but all diatribes my own.
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Check out new ‘The Pollution Playbook: how industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals’ briefing by @ciel.org and @corporateeurope.org on the deceptive tactics used by chemicals industry to keep producing & using their toxic products.
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Check out new ‘The Pollution Playbook: how industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals’ briefing by @ciel.org and @corporateeurope.org on the deceptive tactics used by chemicals industry to keep producing & using their toxic products.
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corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/p...
February 2, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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Check out new ‘The Pollution Playbook: how industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals’ briefing by @ciel.org and @corporateeurope.org on the deceptive tactics used by chemicals industry to keep producing & using their toxic products.
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corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/p...
Check out new ‘The Pollution Playbook: how industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals’ briefing by @ciel.org and @corporateeurope.org on the deceptive tactics used by chemicals industry to keep producing & using their toxic products.
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corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/p...
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"3 mn litres of drinking water are lost every day through leaking pipes + not a single new major reservoir has been built since privatisation...
"The public has paid through rising bills – now water companies must invest" ~ James Wallace of @riveractionuk.bsky.social
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
"The public has paid through rising bills – now water companies must invest" ~ James Wallace of @riveractionuk.bsky.social
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
January 28, 2026 at 11:39 AM
"3 mn litres of drinking water are lost every day through leaking pipes + not a single new major reservoir has been built since privatisation...
"The public has paid through rising bills – now water companies must invest" ~ James Wallace of @riveractionuk.bsky.social
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
"The public has paid through rising bills – now water companies must invest" ~ James Wallace of @riveractionuk.bsky.social
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
Great new video about lobbying in Brussels - and because it can be quite confusing, we've got cats helping us unpack it all 😂 great job from CEO's media wizard, Marcella 🪄
Who lobbies the EU?
Not just corporations — but a whole ecosystem of actors:
NGOs and trade unions, but mostly corporate lobbyists, trade and industry groups, consultancies, law firms, and think tanks.
🔦It’s time to shine a light on their murky world!
Watch the 3rd video of our new series.
Not just corporations — but a whole ecosystem of actors:
NGOs and trade unions, but mostly corporate lobbyists, trade and industry groups, consultancies, law firms, and think tanks.
🔦It’s time to shine a light on their murky world!
Watch the 3rd video of our new series.
January 27, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Great new video about lobbying in Brussels - and because it can be quite confusing, we've got cats helping us unpack it all 😂 great job from CEO's media wizard, Marcella 🪄
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Appalling that the government's new water white paper is about reassuring the shareholders who have ripped us all off 👇
Privatisation has failed since 1989, TAKE BACK OUR WATER
Privatisation has failed since 1989, TAKE BACK OUR WATER
January 22, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Appalling that the government's new water white paper is about reassuring the shareholders who have ripped us all off 👇
Privatisation has failed since 1989, TAKE BACK OUR WATER
Privatisation has failed since 1989, TAKE BACK OUR WATER
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The 🇪🇺 Commission is taking a political chainsaw to hard won social, environmental, and digital protections.
We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation.
Check out our new cartoons below by @cartoonralph.bsky.social and spread the word!
The 🇪🇺 Commission is taking a political chainsaw to hard won social, environmental, and digital protections.
We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation.
Check out our new cartoons below by @cartoonralph.bsky.social and spread the word!
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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The 🇪🇺 Commission is taking a political chainsaw to hard won social, environmental, and digital protections.
We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation.
Check out our new cartoons below by @cartoonralph.bsky.social and spread the word!
The 🇪🇺 Commission is taking a political chainsaw to hard won social, environmental, and digital protections.
We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation.
Check out our new cartoons below by @cartoonralph.bsky.social and spread the word!
REVEALED: heavy lobbying by the airline industries against Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), which is far from sustainable anyway.
Who revealed it? The CEO of French oil and gas major TotalEnergies.
Current market-led approaches for a just transition are failing.
www.reuters.com/business/dav...
Who revealed it? The CEO of French oil and gas major TotalEnergies.
Current market-led approaches for a just transition are failing.
www.reuters.com/business/dav...
TotalEnergies CEO expects EU mandate on sustainable aviation fuel to be dropped in future
TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne said on Wednesday that he expected the European Union to water down its mandate to incorporate sustainable aviation fuel in future, similar to the bloc's recent deci...
www.reuters.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:05 AM
REVEALED: heavy lobbying by the airline industries against Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), which is far from sustainable anyway.
Who revealed it? The CEO of French oil and gas major TotalEnergies.
Current market-led approaches for a just transition are failing.
www.reuters.com/business/dav...
Who revealed it? The CEO of French oil and gas major TotalEnergies.
Current market-led approaches for a just transition are failing.
www.reuters.com/business/dav...
Oh the irony: The EU gets off Russian gas so it can't be weaponised (eg support for Ukraine), and gets onto US LNG. But now Trump looks like he's going to weaponise it to stop any reaction over Greenland.
There was a moment just after Russia's invasion when the EU could have taken another path...
There was a moment just after Russia's invasion when the EU could have taken another path...
January 21, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Oh the irony: The EU gets off Russian gas so it can't be weaponised (eg support for Ukraine), and gets onto US LNG. But now Trump looks like he's going to weaponise it to stop any reaction over Greenland.
There was a moment just after Russia's invasion when the EU could have taken another path...
There was a moment just after Russia's invasion when the EU could have taken another path...
Glad to see TotalEnergies is coping well with the declining LNG and oil prices:
It made up for the loss through selling off investments in renewables!!! Laugh? Cry?
Courtesy of @politico.eu morning energy and climate newsletter
totalenergies.com/system/files...
It made up for the loss through selling off investments in renewables!!! Laugh? Cry?
Courtesy of @politico.eu morning energy and climate newsletter
totalenergies.com/system/files...
January 21, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Glad to see TotalEnergies is coping well with the declining LNG and oil prices:
It made up for the loss through selling off investments in renewables!!! Laugh? Cry?
Courtesy of @politico.eu morning energy and climate newsletter
totalenergies.com/system/files...
It made up for the loss through selling off investments in renewables!!! Laugh? Cry?
Courtesy of @politico.eu morning energy and climate newsletter
totalenergies.com/system/files...
Just 32 companies? 🤯
A mere handful, but let's not forget we've an entire economic system based on coal oil & gas, with a myriad of polluting interests all lobbying for the climate-wrecking fuels.
Dismantling fossil fuels means dismantling capitalism.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A mere handful, but let's not forget we've an entire economic system based on coal oil & gas, with a myriad of polluting interests all lobbying for the climate-wrecking fuels.
Dismantling fossil fuels means dismantling capitalism.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Just 32 companies? 🤯
A mere handful, but let's not forget we've an entire economic system based on coal oil & gas, with a myriad of polluting interests all lobbying for the climate-wrecking fuels.
Dismantling fossil fuels means dismantling capitalism.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A mere handful, but let's not forget we've an entire economic system based on coal oil & gas, with a myriad of polluting interests all lobbying for the climate-wrecking fuels.
Dismantling fossil fuels means dismantling capitalism.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wow, it was that easy to solve?! Makes you wanna live in the Czech Republic, doesn't it!
Political efficiency at its best. We could all take a leaf out of the new Czech environment minister's book.
brnodaily.com/2025/12/16/n...
Political efficiency at its best. We could all take a leaf out of the new Czech environment minister's book.
brnodaily.com/2025/12/16/n...
“Climate Crisis Is Over” In The Czech Republic, Declares New Environment Minister
English News and Events in Brno
brnodaily.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Wow, it was that easy to solve?! Makes you wanna live in the Czech Republic, doesn't it!
Political efficiency at its best. We could all take a leaf out of the new Czech environment minister's book.
brnodaily.com/2025/12/16/n...
Political efficiency at its best. We could all take a leaf out of the new Czech environment minister's book.
brnodaily.com/2025/12/16/n...
A new report from @politico.eu on "Europe's Omnibus Fever" is damning in its criticism:
"What the Commission frames as simplification is, in practice, a downward drift in regulatory reach that erodes the informational foundations of effective governance."
#deregulation #omnibus #RuleToProtect
"What the Commission frames as simplification is, in practice, a downward drift in regulatory reach that erodes the informational foundations of effective governance."
#deregulation #omnibus #RuleToProtect
December 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
A new report from @politico.eu on "Europe's Omnibus Fever" is damning in its criticism:
"What the Commission frames as simplification is, in practice, a downward drift in regulatory reach that erodes the informational foundations of effective governance."
#deregulation #omnibus #RuleToProtect
"What the Commission frames as simplification is, in practice, a downward drift in regulatory reach that erodes the informational foundations of effective governance."
#deregulation #omnibus #RuleToProtect
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⚠️Defence as a justification for deregulation: the military caveat in the Climate Law🌍
Climate goals should not be pursued if seen as a “burden” on the EU’s military priorities 🪖says new Climate Law
More 🛢️🛢️🏭🏭 in name of defence?
Read more on 🔍Deregulation Watch🔎
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Climate goals should not be pursued if seen as a “burden” on the EU’s military priorities 🪖says new Climate Law
More 🛢️🛢️🏭🏭 in name of defence?
Read more on 🔍Deregulation Watch🔎
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
I Challenge Thee
corporateeurope.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
⚠️Defence as a justification for deregulation: the military caveat in the Climate Law🌍
Climate goals should not be pursued if seen as a “burden” on the EU’s military priorities 🪖says new Climate Law
More 🛢️🛢️🏭🏭 in name of defence?
Read more on 🔍Deregulation Watch🔎
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Climate goals should not be pursued if seen as a “burden” on the EU’s military priorities 🪖says new Climate Law
More 🛢️🛢️🏭🏭 in name of defence?
Read more on 🔍Deregulation Watch🔎
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
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📣 New article out:
☠️ Pesticide lobby opportunism: using farmer protests in attempts to slash EU safety rules for #pesticides. #deregulation #omnibus
👉 But free trade deal #EU-Mercosur opposition shows farmers' and pesticide industry's interests do not align.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/p...
☠️ Pesticide lobby opportunism: using farmer protests in attempts to slash EU safety rules for #pesticides. #deregulation #omnibus
👉 But free trade deal #EU-Mercosur opposition shows farmers' and pesticide industry's interests do not align.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/p...
December 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
📣 New article out:
☠️ Pesticide lobby opportunism: using farmer protests in attempts to slash EU safety rules for #pesticides. #deregulation #omnibus
👉 But free trade deal #EU-Mercosur opposition shows farmers' and pesticide industry's interests do not align.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/p...
☠️ Pesticide lobby opportunism: using farmer protests in attempts to slash EU safety rules for #pesticides. #deregulation #omnibus
👉 But free trade deal #EU-Mercosur opposition shows farmers' and pesticide industry's interests do not align.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/p...
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Ever heard of cheesing?* 🧀
It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:
1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy
Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️
#Deregulator
youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:
1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy
Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️
#Deregulator
youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
The deregulator
YouTube video by Friends of the Earth Europe
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Ever heard of cheesing?* 🧀
It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:
1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy
Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️
#Deregulator
youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:
1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy
Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️
#Deregulator
youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
DE-RISKING? The heavily-criticised #Hyphen project in Namibia, intended to export green hydrogen+ammonia to Europe, has secured a $10m loan from the African Development Bank to "de-risk" the project.
De-risk or bail out European capital/investors?
www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/h...
De-risk or bail out European capital/investors?
www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/h...
Hyphen secures $10m loan for 3GW green hydrogen and ammonia project in Namibia
African Development Bank cash will part-fund the technical design phase of the project
www.hydrogeninsight.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
DE-RISKING? The heavily-criticised #Hyphen project in Namibia, intended to export green hydrogen+ammonia to Europe, has secured a $10m loan from the African Development Bank to "de-risk" the project.
De-risk or bail out European capital/investors?
www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/h...
De-risk or bail out European capital/investors?
www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/h...
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Corporate lobby groups demand a “social omnibus” to roll back workers’ rights ⚠️
Lobby groups linked to BusinessEurope call for #deregulation of the pay transparency directive, posted workers directive, etc.
Read more in our new post on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Lobby groups linked to BusinessEurope call for #deregulation of the pay transparency directive, posted workers directive, etc.
Read more in our new post on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Deregulation Watch | Corporate Europe Observatory
Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environme...
www.corporateeurope.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Corporate lobby groups demand a “social omnibus” to roll back workers’ rights ⚠️
Lobby groups linked to BusinessEurope call for #deregulation of the pay transparency directive, posted workers directive, etc.
Read more in our new post on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Lobby groups linked to BusinessEurope call for #deregulation of the pay transparency directive, posted workers directive, etc.
Read more in our new post on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎 www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Swish... the #revolvingdoor spins again... Klaus Dieter-Borchard, who spent 20 years in the EU Commission before becoming a gas lobbyists, is BACK! His ex-employer has appointed him Coordinator for Central and South-East European energy interconnectivity... 🤨
energy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eur...
energy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eur...
New European coordinator appointed for the Central and South-East European energy interconnectivity
With the energy network in Central and South-Eastern Europe facing a number of particular challenges, the European Commission has appointed Klaus-Dieter Borchardt - as European Coordinator for the Cen...
energy.ec.europa.eu
December 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Swish... the #revolvingdoor spins again... Klaus Dieter-Borchard, who spent 20 years in the EU Commission before becoming a gas lobbyists, is BACK! His ex-employer has appointed him Coordinator for Central and South-East European energy interconnectivity... 🤨
energy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eur...
energy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eur...
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"With this eighth so-called omnibus we can see the European Commission continues to prioritise the short-term interests of industry over the health and environmental concerns of citizens."
#EnvironmentalOmnibus
#EnvironmentalOmnibus
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"With this eighth so-called omnibus we can see the European Commission continues to prioritise the short-term interests of industry over the health and environmental concerns of citizens."
#EnvironmentalOmnibus
#EnvironmentalOmnibus
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EU Commission needs to focus on the real crises facing our communities, not the lobby demands of big business falsely complaining about over-regulation.
Take action today to defend pesticide regulations!
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/t...
Take action today to defend pesticide regulations!
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/t...
December 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
EU Commission needs to focus on the real crises facing our communities, not the lobby demands of big business falsely complaining about over-regulation.
Take action today to defend pesticide regulations!
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/t...
Take action today to defend pesticide regulations!
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/t...
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🔴 NEW - Mapped: Pro-Trump Heartland Institute’s European Network
The U.S. climate science denial group is attempting to forge a global anti-green alliance.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
The U.S. climate science denial group is attempting to forge a global anti-green alliance.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Mapped: Pro-Trump Heartland Institute’s European Network
A year ago, as the world convulsed from Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election, his allies were already identifying their next frontier. In December, the Heartland Institute hosted a...
www.desmog.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🔴 NEW - Mapped: Pro-Trump Heartland Institute’s European Network
The U.S. climate science denial group is attempting to forge a global anti-green alliance.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
The U.S. climate science denial group is attempting to forge a global anti-green alliance.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
It's official: last year exceeding 1.5oC wasn't just a blip. According to the EU's Copernicus, the average for 2023-2025 is on track to exceed 1.5C for the first time.
The chants of "1.5 to stay alive" from Pacific island communities at COP is ringing in my ears.
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
The chants of "1.5 to stay alive" from Pacific island communities at COP is ringing in my ears.
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
Copernicus: 2025 on track to be joint-second warmest year
The rising temperatures reflect the ‘accelerating pace of climate change’, says Copernicus.
www.euronews.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
It's official: last year exceeding 1.5oC wasn't just a blip. According to the EU's Copernicus, the average for 2023-2025 is on track to exceed 1.5C for the first time.
The chants of "1.5 to stay alive" from Pacific island communities at COP is ringing in my ears.
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
The chants of "1.5 to stay alive" from Pacific island communities at COP is ringing in my ears.
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
Israel's biggest defence firm #Elbit Systems has been barred from competing for new NATO tenders amid a massive corruption scandal. That's the same arms company whose targeted by Palestine Action in the UK. www.ftm.eu/articles/isr...
Israel’s biggest defence company suspended by NATO amid corruption probe
Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons firm, is implicated in a widening NATO corruption scandal. The military alliance’s procurement agency (NSPA) has suspended the company from bidding on new contr...
www.ftm.eu
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Israel's biggest defence firm #Elbit Systems has been barred from competing for new NATO tenders amid a massive corruption scandal. That's the same arms company whose targeted by Palestine Action in the UK. www.ftm.eu/articles/isr...
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Trump's new National Security Strategy is a mask-off moment, it reads like it was written by a cartoon fascist.
The US aims to save Europe from itself by [checks notes] backing far right parties in the EU and restoring our “civilizational self-confidence and Western identity”…. 1/
The US aims to save Europe from itself by [checks notes] backing far right parties in the EU and restoring our “civilizational self-confidence and Western identity”…. 1/
December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Trump's new National Security Strategy is a mask-off moment, it reads like it was written by a cartoon fascist.
The US aims to save Europe from itself by [checks notes] backing far right parties in the EU and restoring our “civilizational self-confidence and Western identity”…. 1/
The US aims to save Europe from itself by [checks notes] backing far right parties in the EU and restoring our “civilizational self-confidence and Western identity”…. 1/
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The Commission's Industrial Carbon Management Forum #ICMForum starts MONDAY.
Decision makers and fossil lobbyists will plan how to roll-out #CCS, a proven-to-fail technofix that allows polluters to keep polluting at great public cost. New briefing: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
@ec.europa.eu
Decision makers and fossil lobbyists will plan how to roll-out #CCS, a proven-to-fail technofix that allows polluters to keep polluting at great public cost. New briefing: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
@ec.europa.eu
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Commission's Industrial Carbon Management Forum #ICMForum starts MONDAY.
Decision makers and fossil lobbyists will plan how to roll-out #CCS, a proven-to-fail technofix that allows polluters to keep polluting at great public cost. New briefing: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
@ec.europa.eu
Decision makers and fossil lobbyists will plan how to roll-out #CCS, a proven-to-fail technofix that allows polluters to keep polluting at great public cost. New briefing: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
@ec.europa.eu