Or is the corn lobby blocking this?
With the environmental lobby blocking a new generation of coal plants, around 10 percent of this capacity will disappear soon, robbing mining companies of clients.
The publishers' lobby blocked a proposal in 1996 by Pearson of Britain, parent of The Financial Times, to invest in The Business Standard, an Indian financial newspaper.
Establishing where the international mechanism might "sit" was another core point of differentiation between key lobbying blocks.
The final negotiated texts (n = 3) from COP17, COP18, and COP19 (2011–2013) and any written submissions from lobbying blocks (n = 9) or member countries (n = 12) in this time have all been analyzed for their latent (thematic) content.
This article provides a brief historical overview of loss and damage at the climate change talks, and examines the key discourses defining this issue between 2011 and 2013 by analyzing submissions by lobbying blocks and member countries, and final negotiated texts.
While the 19th (2013) Conference of the Parties succeeded in delivering the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change Impacts, there was concern by some negotiators earlier into the conference that this would never transpire given the staunch disagreements between countries and lobbying blocks on a way forward.
Pushes by other countries and/or lobbying blocks for compensation and related financial contributions have ebbed and flowed over the last few years, with a number of notable examples (Bangladesh, for instance, tabled the need for compensation in 2005 at COP11 and again in 2007 at COP13).
Florida leads the pack in passing bills written by the gun lobby that block any sensible attempt to control the purchase and use of firearms.
In a depressing reminder of the NRA's outsize influence in Washington, an aggressive lobbying campaign by the pro-gun lobby to block Murthy appears to be paying off.
