... recalcitrant parties, including Saudi Ara- bia, Brazil, and Australia, each with their own po- litical agendas at play. Meanwhile, China and India, which are both generating rapidly growing carbon emissions, balked at meeting or exceeding their 2020 targets for reducing those growth rates, arguing that fi...

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... shape, it is much better. And leaders of the coun- tries that produce the largest amounts of carbon emissions are convinced that climate change must be dealt with, which means that we have finally turned the corner on mustering political will. Now the hard part begins. The December 2015 talks in Paris...

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