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What did Durban deliver?

Jane Burston, Carbon Retirement

04 January 2012 •

Jane Burston, who blogged for BusinessGreen from the climate summit, asks if COP17 was the success politicians claim

After two weeks at the Durban climate summit, I was thoroughly burned out. Never mind the negotiators that worked through three consecutive nights to salvage some sort of agreement: the unremitting but...

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