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The result of what we started has been a huge growth in indigenous movements in the countries themselves. that is what we want to see. we don't want to be there organising things from outside. we help people to start their movements. brazil now has very powerful indian lobby groups, mps, members of parliament, and others, who fight on behalf of their people, for themselves. that's how it should be. and the same all over the world, now. we are merely an organisation who promote in international forums the rights of indigenous people. but why shouldn't your own important and influential organisa...

It has offices around the world. it's fundamentally committed to the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and the lands in which they live. absolutely. why is it that it never appears to have had a leadership which draws in and involves the indigenous peoples themselves? it's run, always been run by people like you, from outside. the result of what we started has been a huge growth in indigenous movements in the countries themselves. that is what we want to see. we don't want to be there organising things from outside. we help people to start their movements. brazil now has very powe...

Transition successfully away from fossil fuels without losing that sort of revenue? i think the biggest problem by far the lobby groups, those who have a vested interest in the fuel industries, who are desperately trying to make it very difficult to bring about the transformation. i don't think the economic equation that you suggest really applies. if we were able to devote the sort of very large—scale resources to changing our energy sources, we would be able to arrange taxation and fiscal policy in such a way that we replace the taxes that come from oil and remember that governments curren...

Lobby groups have emerged as critical cog in ODM leader Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto’s campaigns ahead of the August 9 elections.

In the eu�*s transparency register. using a mixture of money and meetings, subsidies and sponsorships, five oil and gas corporations and their lobby groups are estimated to have spent over a quarter of a billion euros targeting eu decision—makers over the last decade. as for eu member states, the aim is to go green now, but the transition is proving tricky, for some more than others. big, influential germany still burns a lot of coal. this plant helps heat berlin. here, like across germany and the rest of the eu, there are plans under way to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels. but all too...