How did the World Health Organisation (WHO) stop the tobacco industry from influencing the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control? The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) should outright stop the fossil fuel industry from having a say in discussions. Fossil fuel industry funds climate change denialThe fossil fuel industry has been funding climate change denial for years, impeding international negotiations. Fossil fuel industry’s influence at the UNFCCCThe first year the UNFCCC started to accept corporate sponsorship was 2013; fossil fuel companies were only ready to oblige. Big Tobacco was banned, Big Oil can be tooIf tobacco industries were banned from the WHO convention, then there is no reason fossil fuel industries cannot be banned from the UNFCCC.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 25, 2016 18:00 UTC