'Everyone was frustrated': US-China stand-off holds up climate talks

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A week of climate negotiations in Bangkok proceeded unevenly, as old fights about the firewall between rich and poor countries resurfaced

Climate negotiators made patchy progress on the rules of the Paris Agreement at talks in Bangkok, which ended on Sunday. The US blocked a Chinese bid to insert two-tier standards for rich and poor...

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