1. Political Hurdles Surround Climate Summit.
- Author
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Weisman, Jonathan, Swartz, Spencer, and Power, Stephen
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INTERNATIONAL cooperation on climate change , *INTERNATIONAL cooperation on environmental policy , *GREENHOUSE gas mitigation , *INTERNATIONAL cooperation - Abstract
The article deals with an acknowledgment by the world's biggest government on their failure to reach a climate-change agreement during the United Nations conference on climate change in December 2009. The admission reflects the political challenges of negotiating a deal on climate change. According to leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, neither the U.S. nor China are ready to commit to such a deal.
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- 2009