Textos de referencia:
Caroline Selle – Poland Partners with Coal and Oil Corporate Sponsors for COP19 Climate Conference – DeSmogBlog, 18/09/2013 – http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/09/18/poland-partners-coal-and-oil-corporate-sponsors-cop19-climate-conference
“On the same day that Poland announced the names of the COP19 corporate partners, the World Coal Association (WCA) announced the Polish Economic Ministry’s support of its World Communique. According to the WCA announcement, the Communique was endorsed by Janusz Piechociński, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister, and “outlines pragmatic solutions which address environmental challenges while allowing coal to continue playing its role as an affordable, abundant, easily accessible source of energy.”. The WCA also announced that Poland will host its International Coal and Climate Summit in Warsaw on November 18-19, right in the middle of the COP19 negotiations.”
Natasha Geiling – The Paris Climate Talks, Brought To You By The Fossil Fuel Industry – Climate Progress, 07/12/2015 – http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/07/3728747/corporate-fossil-fuel-sponsors-paris-climate/
“Private sponsorships account for a relatively small part of the overall climate conference – 20 percent of the $185 million total cost, according to the Guardian — but a sponsorship still affords the companies a great deal of visibility. EDF, for instance, gets its name associated with a digital screen in Parisian metro stations that ticks of Twitter responses to COP21 and climate change, while Engie gets to hang a massive COP21 banner in front of its Paris headquarters. Paris isn’t the first climate talk to be sponsored, at least in part, by parties that might have more to gain from a broken climate treaty than a successful one. When the climate talks were held in Warsaw in 2013, Pascoe Sabido, an organizer with Corporate Europe Observatory (an organization that is also spearheading the crusade against corporate interests in the Paris talks) told the Guardian that the Warsaw talks were “perhaps the most corporate climate talks we have ever experienced.” Sponsors like General Motors, who until 2012 funded the climate-denying Heartland Institute, and Grupa Lotos, Poland’s second-largest petroleum company, caused 800 representatives from environment and development groups to stage a walk-out at the talks. During the talks, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres gave the keynote speech at the corporate summit for the World Coal Association — also held in Warsaw.”
Leo Hickman – Fred Palmer interview: ‘We’re 100% coal. More coal. Everywhere’ – The Guardian, 08/03/2011 – https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/mar/08/fred-palmer-peabody-coal-interview
“But Palmer says he is now focused on producing a “low-carbon coal future”. As the new chairman of the London-based World Coal Association, and as a board member at FutureGen Alliance, a $1.3bn project in Illinois which aims to build a commercial CCS facility, Palmer recently told me in a wide-ranging interview that the global coal industry is working hard to respond to the “worldwide concern over carbon”…”
Frederick D. Palmer – The Heartland Institute, 19/09/2020 -https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/frederick-d-palmer
“Prior to joining Peabody Energy, Palmer served for five years as General Counsel and 15 years as chief executive officer of Western Fuels Association, Inc. While at Western Fuels, Palmer served on the Board of Directors of the National Mining Association and in that capacity served as chair of the NMA Legal Committee with a focus on coal and climate policies during the Clinton/Gore years in the 1990s. Palmer began his career in 1969 in Washington, D.C., on the staff of Arizona Congressman Morris K. Udall, where he served for two years. He was a partner in Duncan, Brown, Weinberg & Palmer, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm, for eight years where he specialized in utility, environmental, and resource law. … During his service to Peabody Energy, he was Peabody’s representative on the Board of Directors of the World Coal Association and served as its chairman from November 2010 to November 2012. He also represented Peabody on the Board of the FutureGen Alliance from its formation until June 2015. Additionally, he is a member of the California and D.C. Bar Associations.”
