Figueres calls for "more ambition" at climate talks

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Incoming head of UN climate change secretariat urges countries to adopt a more transparent and inclusive approach to negotiations

Christiana Figueres yesterday used her first interview after being confirmed as the next head of the UN's climate change secretariat to call for a step-change in the international talks to replace or extend...

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