Updated: Figueres accepts liklihood of post-2012 'regulatory gap'

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As diplomats gather in Bonn, head of UN climate secretariat raises spectre of 'regulatory gap' to follow end of current Kyoto commitment period

For years the UN's climate change secretariat, the UNFCC, has remained one of the few participants in the long-running international climate change negotiations to insist that a treaty can still be fully...

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