TI’s Fuelling Delay report shows fossil-fuel actors exploiting weak oversight in UN climate talks to advance private interests, demonstrating regulatory capture and corrupt influence

The report documents how fossil-fuel interests gain access to key – but opaque – negotiation spaces within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process and deploy financial and relational influence to delay strong outcomes and weaken reporting demands. Drawing on interviews with negotiators and observations from COP-29 and the Bonn mid-year session, it identifies structural risks of capture, weak transparency provisions and the need for higher integrity standards in international climate governance…