{"id":8276,"date":"2026-03-25T21:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:01:53","slug":"europes-climate-policy-turning-into-lobbyists-playground-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/25\/europes-climate-policy-turning-into-lobbyists-playground-watchdog-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s climate policy turning into lobbyists\u2019 playground, watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 2026 report by the Corporate Europe Observatory claims the EU&#8217;s Clean Industrial Deal has been &#8220;captured&#8221; by heavy industry, following over 750 lobbying meetings in a single year. The investigation reveals that 90% of these interactions involved corporate interests, resulting in the weakening of CO2 emission standards and delays to the combustion engine ban. Powerful steel, nuclear, and automotive groups have successfully pushed for &#8220;simplification&#8221; and massive subsidies, effectively turning the climate initiative into a pro-business industrial strategy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: February 25, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/02\/25\/europes-climate-policy-turning-into-lobbyists-playground-watchdog-says\">euronews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2026 report by the Corporate Europe Observatory claims the EU&#8217;s Clean Industrial Deal has been &#8220;captured&#8221; by heavy industry, following over 750 lobbying meetings in a single year. The investigation reveals that 90% of these interactions involved corporate interests, resulting in the weakening of CO2 emission standards and delays to the combustion engine ban. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eroding-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8473,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions\/8473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}