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by Our Foreign Desk
UNITED Nations climate talks negotiators adopted a complicated draft deal at the weekend, handing ministers the job of untangling key sticking points.
“It’s up to the ministers and officials of every government to remove options, find compromises and make decisions on the difficult issues without undermining the ambition” of the pact, said French President Francois Hollande.
Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
Reaching co-operation is supposed to be the beginning, not the end, of global climate governance, argues LISA VANHALA
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
