Dec 21 2009
Copenhagen Climate Talks A Failure?
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Despite the work of hundreds of thousands of delegates, environmental activists, and ordinary citizens in Copenhagen Denmark over the past several weeks, the final 12-paragraph draft accord on Climate change involved only 5 nations including the US and China. The New York Times described it on Saturday as a “statement of an intention to act rather than a binding …
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