Fight Over Fossil Fuel Influence in Climate Talks Ends With Murky Compromise

Inside Climate News: Participants in global climate negotiations will have at least another year to debate the role fossil fuel companies and other influential industries should play in the international talks, after negotiators at the latest round of United Nations talks kicked the can down the road.

After days of adamant debate, a murkily phrased compromise invited countries, businesses, activists and others to share their views by January 2018 on how to increase the "openness, transparency and inclusiveness" of outside observers at climate talks. It was approved as negotiators from around the world wrapped up the Bonn climate conference on Thursday evening.

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