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<div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">---</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">With less than one week before the Paris climate talks (COP21), Corporate Accountability International (CAI) released a report</font></font></font></font></div><div>exposing the “filthy” track record of some of the corporations sponsoring the talks.</div><div>
</div><div>The report, Fueling the Fire: The corporate sponsors bankrolling COP21, uncovers “the green veil of four of the meeting’s dirtiest</div><div>sponsors,” including&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">fossil fuel conglomerates<b>&nbsp;Engie (formerly GDF Suez), Suez Environment, BNP Paribas and French utility</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Électricité de France (EDF).</b></div><div>
</div><div>The organization argues that there is an inherent conflict of interest between the stated aims of the UN climate process and many</div><div>of COP21’s corporate sponsors given their roles as global carbon polluters.</div></div>