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Title: Climate dissociations: Trade associations, energy policy and climate communications in Europe
Author(s): Dinan, William
Esteves, Victoria
Harkins, Steven
Hills, Stefanie
Contact Email: william.dinan1@stir.ac.uk
Issue Date: 13-Jan-2025
Date Deposited: 13-Jan-2025
Citation: Dinan W, Esteves V, Harkins S & Hills S (2025) Climate dissociations: Trade associations, energy policy and climate communications in Europe. Goutte S (Editor) <i>PLOS Climate</i>, 4 (1), Art. No.: e0000467. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000467
Abstract: This paper focuses on how climate delay narratives populate the information environment of decision makers and regulators in EU policy making. We examine the communications of selected trade associations representing oil and gas extraction interests in Europe. Our analysis offers a novel synthesis, drawing on official data, industry and social media content, using mixed methods and informed by recent theorising on the advocacy activities of trade associations. The paper contextualises the lobbying and communication activities of oil and gas trade associations in Europe using publicly available data on lobbying (drawn from the EU transparency register) and the outputs of oil and gas trade associations (in trade, specialist and social media) to examine their preferred framings and promoted policy prescriptions for addressing climate and energy policy. We find that trade associations representing oil and gas interests in Europe spend millions of euros per annum producing and promoting policy ideas that seek to secure the long-term future of these industries. Wider climate science is rarely directly referenced or acknowledged in their public advocacy. We argue that the normalization of a new form of climate denial has emerged, based on unproven technologies and market mechanisms being pushed by powerful economic interests.
DOI Link: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000467
Rights: Copyright: © 2025 Dinan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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