Five reasons to be cheerful about the Paris Climate Summit - and five reasons to be despondent

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Following the last round of official negotiations before the Paris Climate Summit, BusinessGreen takes a look at the mixed signals emanating from the UN talks

A tense, and at times fractious, week of climate negotiations reached a close in Bonn on Friday with the formal adoption of the negotiating text Ministers will have to wrestle with when they gather for...

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