Lobbying

In politics, lobbying, persuasion, or interest representation is the act of lawfully attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of government officials, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies. Lobbying, which usually involves direct, face-to-face contact, is done by many types of people, associations and organized groups, including individuals in the private sector, corporations, fellow legislators or government officials, or advocacy groups (interest groups). Lobbyists may be among a legislator's constituencies, meaning a voter or bloc of voters within their electoral district; they may engage in lobbying as a business. Professional lobbyists are people whose business is trying …

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Carbon Tracker Initiative · 19 November 2024 English

This report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative critically evaluates the emissions targets of 30 leading oil and gas companies, assessing their alignment with the Paris Agreement. It introduces methane-specific reduction …

price/demand forecasts, remuneration policies, and lobbying practices illustrate whether stated targets are


Chatham House · 14 November 2024 English

A substantial gap exists between the amount of finance needed to achieve net zero in order to avert catastrophic impacts from climate change and the amount of finance available. The …

$1 trillion consisted of explicit subsidies. Political lobbying helps to keep these subsidies in place, as does


Cato Institute · 14 November 2024 English

The goal of the 2025 tax extensions should be to keep tax rates low and meet calls for additional pro-growth tax cuts, such as a lower corporate tax rate and …

infrastructure alternatives, and fuels special interest lobbying. Scott Greenberg also notes that the subsidy primarily


ADB: Asian Development Bank · 13 November 2024 English

This paper explores how oil price windfalls impact labor market regulation across 83 countries from 1970 to 2014.

carry a real threat to the ruling elite, such lobbying activities may be successful. In democratic countries


CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 12 November 2024 English

Emboldened by Trump’s win, Orbán is determined to place Hungary at the center of European­—and even global—decisionmaking. His European partners must think creatively and strategically to manage his disruptive influence.

election. By investing millions of dollars in U.S. lobbying �rms and right-wing think tanks, Orbán’s people how high?" Orbán will continue the expensive lobbying to remain in Trump’s horizon. Should Trump’s transactional


Urban Institute · 11 November 2024 English

Community foundations have a unique capacity to promote upward mobility through policy advocacy and address deep-rooted barriers to economic success, dignity, and equity within their communities. As stable, place-based institutions, …

Understand the Difference between Policy Advocacy and Lobbying 8 Action 3: Familiarize Yourself with the Various who reviewed the text on community foundation lobbying, and Terry Mazany and Amy Daly-Donovan at the understand the difference between policy advocacy and lobbying, (3) familiarize yourself with the various roles Understand the Difference between Policy Advocacy and Lobbying Generally, advocacy is used to educate, disseminate movement toward change. While both advocacy and lobbying seek to influence change, advocacy is an umbrella


World Bank Group · 11 November 2024 English

In Senegal, despite the existence of legal provisions and international commitments aimed at promoting gender equality in land rights, women continue to face significant challenges in accessing and controlling land. …

representatives, and CSOs). • Continue to support lobbying and advocacy by facilitators, partners, women


ECPAT: End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism · 8 November 2024 English

They interviews focused on understanding were also made aware of how their data the perspectives of participants would be used, agreed to be identify by regarding crime prevention to end …

and contextualized approaches, with NGOs often lobbying for their passage. ↘ Curfews and Juvenile Programs: Child Trafficking. “The organisation is currently lobbying for a child protection policy 14 Representative


GI-TOC: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime · 8 November 2024 English

Two of the panels at the conference were composed of high-level police and prosecutorial representatives from the WB6 and were devoted to discussing the integrity and independence of those institutions …

judges and prosecutors; and rumours of illegal lobbying, favouritism, clientelism and general corruption


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 7 November 2024 English

Climate change presents new risks for property in the United States. Due to the high cost and sometimes unavailability of location-specific property risk data, home buyers can greatly benefit from …

contrast, FSF models are not affected by local lobbying concerns. Lastly, the flood score data pro- vided


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