Climate Obstruction NL

Our Goal Analyse, understand and expose climate obstruction in the Netherlands, in particular misinformation, tactics of delay, greenwashing, influence and power structures which obstruct effective and just climate action. Our Values The principles of academic integrity: honesty, diligence, transparency, independence and responsibility; The journalistic code: truthful, independent, fair, and transparent reporting. Collaboration Policy Anyone working on research related to climate obstruction and climate accountability is welcome to join our network. Our members include academics, journalists, NGO researchers, and legal specialists. We are open to collaborations with organisations and people who do not strictly focus on climate obstruction research but share the same values and/or goals as us. Exclusion Policy We do not collaborate with or accept funds from parties whose goals and values conflict with ours, such as those that expand fossil fuel use, exploit people and nature, delay the transition to a post-fossil and equitable world, or promote misinformation. More specifically, we do not collaborate with or accept funds from organisations involved in the exploration and production of coal, oil and gas (we use the GOGEL en GCEL lists as a reference, plus lobby organisations and fossil-industry funded think tanks), human rights abuses and production of weapons (any evidence of this leads to non-collaboration), deforestation (any company in the Forest 500 with a score lower than 60% in the most current assessment), and industrial agriculture (companies with any revenues from industrial agriculture, defined as large-scale monoculture farming with high fertiliser and pesticide input, and large-scale cattle farming). We also do not collaborate or accept money from financial institutions that still invest in fossil fuels.