The ambitious and long-awaited U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen recently concluded after two weeks of somewhat contentious discussion, marked largely by dialogue, diatribe between the U.S. and China, and general discord among the rich and poor nations. Reaching consensus among 192 nations on such complex matters as emissions mitigation and monitoring, reparations for prior pollution and how to finance clean technology transfer may have been too lofty an undertaking given current global economic difficulties.
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