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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber delegations from nearly every country at the United Nations climate summit.
“There has been an explosion of fossil fuel lobbyists heading to UN talks, with nearly four times more than were granted access last year,” according to a new analysis by a coalition of environmental groups called Kick Big Polluters Out. Lobbyists for coal, oil, and gas got more passes to the conference than the total number of delegates from 10 of the countries most vulnerable to climate change (which includes Somalia, Chad, Tonga, Solomon Islands and Sudan), the Guardian reports.
Oil, gas and coal interests swarm global climate summit in Dubai
[The Washington Post]
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