China insists rich world's carbon targets must be on Cancun agenda

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Top official argues diplomats will have to discuss industrialised countries' unambitious emissions targets in Mexico

The standoff at the centre of the UN's long-running climate change negotiations reared its head again at the latest round of talks in Tianjin today, when one of China's top negotiators reiterated his call...

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