Copenhagen may fail to produce climate agreement warns Miliband

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The EC will play an important part in trying to establish agreement ahead of the UN talks in December

Climate change secretary Ed Miliband has warned that the world's leaders could fail to reach agreement on measures to tackle climate change at the the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen. Speaking...

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