Foreign Secretary David Cameron must walk a green tightrope

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The ex-PM's appointment to government holds a number of implications for the climate and energy agenda, writes his former special advisor Tara Singh

It is September 2014, one year before the critical 2015 Paris Climate Summit. I am a Special Adviser in Number 10, trying to convince Prime Minister David Cameron to give a speech to the United Nations...

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