UN report claims climate change bill must go further

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Influential UN report claims 60 per cent cut in emissions by 2050 will not avoid "dangerous climate change"

Gordon Brown's climate change laws will not do enough to prevent " catastrophic" environmental damage and a reversal in human development, a new UN report has claimed. Released yesterday, the Human...

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