Do businesses really need Copenhagen?

James S Murray
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It looks as if any chance of a meaningful international climate change deal will be delayed into 2010, but green businesses should not be too despondent over Copenhagen's failures

With a wearying inevitability the world's leaders have spent much of the past fortnight desperately downgrading expectations ahead of the UN's Copenhagen climate change summit, for fear anyone might notice...

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