UN climate talks: Despatches from Dullsville

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ECIU's Richard Black argues the COP23 Summit delivered on its promise to be slow and steady, but next year could be very different

I'm really hoping that no-one asks me over the next week 'So what happened at the COP?' I've been to eight UNFCCC COPs (Conferences of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change),...

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