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Paris Agreement, six months on: What's changed?

Richard Black, ECIU

14 June 2016 • 6 min read

ECIU's Richard Black reflects on the first six months of the new era of global climate action

Six months and a couple of days ago, 195 countries hadn't yet agreed a global deal under which all would constrain their greenhouse gas emissions; and we weren't entirely sure that they would. The tension,...

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