Green quotes of the week - April 16 2010

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"It was the leak of the Danish draft that destroyed Copenhagen from day one"

"Everyone would know that if they refused to take sufficient steps in the concerned sectors, compensation equivalent to the effort made by the EU would be applied to their products." Nicolas Sarkozy...

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