Thousands of corporate lobbyists are at the UN climate summit in Baku. But what exactly is ‘lobbying’ and how does it work?

By Christina Toenshoff, Assistant Professor of European Politics and Political Economy, Leiden University

Representatives of the world’s governments are gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, to negotiate international climate policy at the Cop29 summit. Of the more than 30,000 participants, thousands will be representatives of companies or business associations – so-called “corporate lobbyists”.

There’s nothing especially new about this. The business community has sought to influence climate policy since global warming first came onto the political agenda in the…

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