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US to seek Chinese climate ‘understanding’

Todd Stern, US special envoy for climate change, said the US and China will seek a “common understanding” to push forward a global deal on climate change during President Barack Obama’s first state visit to Beijing next month ...full story at Financial Times

from Financial Times on Wed, Oct 28 2009

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