Fossil-fuel companies have more people at the UN's climate summit than the 10 countries most affected by climate change do combined

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Toby Rice, CEO of EQT, which is the largest natural-gas producer in the US, told Insider he's at this year's conference, COP27, to promote his own climate solution: producing natural gas in the US and exporting it to foreign nations that rely on coal.
50% : Like coal and oil, natural gas is a fossil fuel that emits greenhouse gases when burned, trapping more heat on our planet and accelerating climate change.
45% : But many researchers argue that's not an effective alternative to eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions because forests only store carbon over hundreds or thousands of years -- not on the hundreds-of-thousands-of-years timescale that the gas, oil, and coal were storing carbon before companies burned it.
44% : It's true that natural gas emits less carbon dioxide than coal.
39% : In the US, major industry associations historically fought against the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate methane emissions.

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