UN chief calls on businesses to build on Durban Summit success

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Figueres defends Durban agreement as laying the foundations for a "truly unprecedented, ambitious global climate strategy"

The UN's climate chief today called on the private sector to step up their efforts to support the "unprecedented, ambitious climate strategy" agreed by international negotiators at the Durban Summit last...

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