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How fossil fuels infiltrated the U.N. climate summit

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Emily Atkin
Sep 24, 2019
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The caviar was orange, served on crunchy crackers.

Xaver Kandler couldn’t eat them—not with his braces—but he held a cracker in his hand, trying to fit in. He was surrounded by multinational oil company CEOs, diplomats, environmental non-profit leaders and government representatives, brought together to mingle on the eve of the United Nations Climate Su…

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