Venezuela and St Kitts and Nevis come to the Paris party with last-minute climate action plans

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Two countries left it until the night the Paris Agreement was adopted to lodge their INDC with the UN

In the midst of the last-minute drama that dominated the hours either side of the adoption of the Paris Agreement, two countries backed up their support for the deal by submitting belated national climate...

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