The "arrogance" of rich countries at the Copenhagen climate summit in December contributed to the negotiations' "disappointing" outcome, a leading economist has told the BBC AFP in Google News | March 17, 2010 Nicholas Stern, a Briton who authored an influential 2006 report on the cost of tackling global warming, said Tuesday the United States and European Union nations failed to properly understand concerns of poorer countries. "[There was] less arrogance than in... [Read Post]
19 Mar 2010, 12:35 |
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