The global PR firm handling external communications for COP27 in Egypt is under fire from a group of scientists for its work for the fossil fuel industry, amid concerns about the rise of oil and gas lobbyists at the UN climate summit.
The US-based Hill+Knowlton Strategies, owned by the WPP group, is providing communications services for COP27. It also represents an industry group known as the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, involving a dozen of the world’s largest oil and gas companies including ExxonMobil and Chevron.
Scientists who are members of the non-profit advocacy group, the Union of Concerned Scientists, have described the dual representations as “incompatible” in an open letter.