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Who lobbies the Parliament on environment & climate?

Environmental, climate and nature-conservation groups, animal-welfare campaigners, and the foundations, think tanks and business alliances that work on climate and nature.

Organisations classified under Environment & climate account for 4,679 declared MEP meetings across the 2016–2026 full record for current MEPs, and the business lobbyists among them self-report about €11M a year in EU lobbying budgets. (As of 8 November 2026.)

Most active organisations

OrganisationTypeMeetingsMEPs met
Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment)⁠↗NGO or non-profit456110
European Environmental Bureau⁠↗NGO or non-profit383121
Climate Action Network Europe⁠↗NGO or non-profit27787
WWF European Policy Programme⁠↗NGO or non-profit26892
Eurogroup for Animals⁠↗NGO or non-profit20573
Global Witness⁠↗NGO or non-profit14941
Fern⁠↗NGO or non-profit14246
Greenpeace European Unit⁠↗NGO or non-profit13864
Friends of the Earth Europe⁠↗NGO or non-profit13551
ClientEarth AISBL⁠↗NGO or non-profit12848
Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.⁠↗NGO or non-profit12431
Germanwatch⁠↗NGO or non-profit12331
Also active here: 58 organisations whose main sector is elsewhere but which this site also places in environment & climate

MEPs most met by environment & climate organisations

Across the 2016–2026 full record for current MEPs. A member's own page counts this term only, so its sector figures can be lower.

Marie Toussaint
177 meetings in Environment & climate
Peter Liese
164 meetings in Environment & climate
Jutta Paulus
162 meetings in Environment & climate
Pascal Canfin
156 meetings in Environment & climate
Michael Bloss
139 meetings in Environment & climate
Tiemo Wölken
110 meetings in Environment & climate
Pär Holmgren
102 meetings in Environment & climate
Delara Burkhardt
92 meetings in Environment & climate
César Luena
87 meetings in Environment & climate
Martin Häusling
74 meetings in Environment & climate
Niels Fuglsang
74 meetings in Environment & climate
Ville Niinistö
74 meetings in Environment & climate

Sector labels are this site's own: reviewers chose the sector for 134 of the 261 profiled organisations here, and the other 127 carry a keyword classification by this site over organisation names, goals and Register categories. See methodology.