Over 5000 fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to U.N. climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, adequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion. “This is climate obstruction at work,” says Nina Lakhani, senior climate justice reporter for The Guardian US . She notes that lobbyists attend climate conferences to “promote false solutions like carbon based carbon markets, carbon capture and storage — these market based solutions which are not going to save the planet.”

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AMY GOODMAN: We’re joined here in New York by the U.N. climate – by Nina Lakhani, Senior Climate Justice Reporter for The Guardian U.S. Her latest piece, out today, “Climate Dis

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