Glasgow Cop 26 is about to start hoping world leaders will axe fossil fuels to reduce climate change. But Corruption is not only in covid contracts, and Tory back handers for lucrative favours. No The Tory corruption seeps into hosting the climate change summit. Corruption in UK govt is well broadcast, cronyism with covid contracts and back handers from tory donors for favours. Now we have corruption at Cop 26 The UK’s President of COP26 has received donations from a business tycoon behind a billion-dollar oil drilling and shipping company, Byline Times can exclusively reveal.
Alok Sharma, who was appointed head of COP26 – the latest UN climate summit to be held in Glasgow in the coming days – in January 2021, has been the Conservative MP for Reading West since 2010.
According to data in the parliamentary register of financial interests, Sharma received a total of £10,000 from Dr Ravi Kumar Mehrotra, the executive chairman of Foresight Group International.
Foresight Group is a billion-dollar, UK-based global conglomerate with interests in offshore and onshore oil drilling, port and gas infrastructure, and shipping. It also works closely with partners involved in climate science denial and pro-carbon lobbying, including oil giant ExxonMobil. The company’s chairman also has links to individuals involved in the Trump-Russia affair.
UK companies are already responsible for more than one-third of all foreign direct investment into India’s oil and gas industry, and there are no signs that the Prime Minister plans to roll this back.
Like OPEC, leaked documents confirm that India had also opposed UN scientists’ calls to
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