Record numbers of business representatives and lobbyists had access to the UN’s latest biodiversity talks, analysis shows.
In total 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for Cop16 in Cali, Colombia, which ended in disarray and without significant progress on a number of key issues including nature funding, monitoring biodiversity loss and work on reducing environmentally harmful business subsidies.
Emma Hakansson, founding director of Collective Fashion Justice, on reading this Guardian article, remarked, “The fashion industry cannot ignore the dangerous influence of lobbyists that attempt to erode climate and environmental policy for their financial benefit. Fossil fuel, animal agriculture and pesticide industry lobbyists all relate to fashion through synthetics, leather, wool, cotton and other materials.
