
The Global Story: The oil lobbyist who tried to sink the first big climate deal
From Global News Podcast
Published 11/23/2025

From Global News Podcast
Published 11/23/2025
The American lawyer, oil lobbyist and master strategist Don Pearlman is said to have chain-smoked his way through almost every UN climate gathering from the early 1990s until his death in 2005. Some of those who saw Pearlman operate in Kyoto, where the first legally binding international agreement…