Of interest to Canadians on this list (apologies for cross-postings):
http://www.corporatemapping.ca/bcs-last-climate-leadership-plan-was-written-in-big-oils-boardroom-literally/
In short, it appears that the British Columbia Climate Leadership Plan
released in the summer of 2016 was written in close collaboration with
the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers - the main oil and gas
lobby group in the country.
I'd be curious to hear of other examples of such cases of regulatory
capture or institutional corruption in environmental policy-making
elsewhere. I can think of the close involvement of the OECD in writing
the Brundtland report (Jim MacNeil, president of the WCED, was from the
OECD, and the report expanded on the ideas floated at a 1984 conference
organized by the OECD), but there's probably a few other documented
instances.
Best,
jp
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