Instrumental strategy | Technique | Description |
Coalition management | Constituency recruitment | TI reached out to allies and affiliates requesting support to its complaints in the media and with policy makers, in an attempt to change Brazil’s position about additives ban at COP4. |
Constituency fabrication | Tobacco growers associations demonstrated at COP4, supported by TI. | |
Information management | Amplification | Dissemination of TI arguments in newspapers and other media. |
Direct involvement and influence in policy | Access | Allegation that a member of the Brazilian at COP4 was passing information to the TI. |
Incentives and threats | A congressman supported by TI tried to influence Brazil’s positions about additives at COP4. |
COP, Conference of the Parties; TI, tobacco industry.