By Megan Darby, Climate Home News

Poland’s Climate envoy dismissed calls to keep polluters out of UN talks, ahead of a controversial negotiation in Bonn on Thursday about widening participation.

Activists outside the talks put pressure on the EU to support a conflict of interest policy for businesses getting involved in the process. They argue that fossil fuel companies are a malign influence and weaken climate ambition to protect their profits.

But Tomasz Chruszczow, who has a leading role in this December’s Katowice climate summit, told Climate Home News in an interview he did not recognise that problem.

“We want everybody in this action,” he said. “Even if they are now generating electricity from Fossil Fuels – the majority of electricity comes from fossil fuels – still it is changing, but it is a process.