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Can the Durban Climate Negotiations Succeed?

Robert Stavins | Posted 01.28.2012

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Robert Stavins

Two weeks of international climate negotiations begin today in Durban, South Africa. These are the Seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP-17) of ...

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International Climate Talks "Going Backward," No Grand Deal In Sight

AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — In two days of talks, major economic powers discussed ways to move ahead in slowing and coping with climate change, but no one sees a...

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Remaking the Global Climate Framework

Teryn Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

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Teryn Norris

Asian governments are the ones beginning to move forward with serious technology policies, investing massive amounts in clean-tech development and deployment while the U.S. falls behind.

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World's Biggest Economies Hold Talks To Reach Climate Deal

AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — Representatives of the world's 17 biggest and most polluting nations were holding talks Sunday to search for a breakthrough on financin...

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It Doesn't Get Bigger Than This

Fernando Henrique Cardoso | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fernando Henrique Cardoso

The world has forged a seminal agreement once before on climate, in Rio. We can -- and must -- do it again in December in Copenhagen.

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