Cancun summit divided over carbon market reforms

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Saudi Arabia and Brazil at loggerheads over inclusion of CCS in carbon offset scheme

Proposals to reform the global carbon market dominated the third day of the international climate change negotiations in Cancun yesterday as countries clashed over plans to extend the UN-backed Clean Development...

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