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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Phoebe Weston

Meat, oil and pesticide industry lobbyists turned out in record numbers at Cop16

Hundreds of people sit at desks looking towards the stage, were a row of people sit behind microphone in front of a screen showing them in closeup ad the Cop16 logo.
Delegates at the closing session of Cop16. The number of attendees increased by 46% this year. Photograph: Camilo Rodriguez/Reuters

Record numbers of business representatives and lobbyists had access to the UN’s latest biodiversity talks, analysis shows.

In total 1,261 business and industry delegates registered for Cop16 in Cali, Colombia, which ended in disarray and without significant progress on a number of key issues including nature funding, monitoring biodiversity loss and work on reducing environmentally harmful business subsidies.

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