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Are China and U.S. Headed For a Copenhagen Deadlock?

Even after President Obama's firm acknowledgment of American responsibility for climate change and Chinese President Hu's announcement of a carbon intensity target yesterday, the prospects for a deal on carbon emissions at Copenhagen in seventy days... ...full story at TreeHugger

from TreeHugger on Wed, Sep 23 2009

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