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Poor urge deep climate cuts

Source: Reuters
Barcelona : Spain | about 1 month ago  
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  • View of the Fira Barcelona Gran Via, venue of the Barcelona Climate Change Talks
    View of the Fira Barcelona Gran Via, venue of the Barcelona Climate ...
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  • Members of the African Group board attend a news conference during the Barcelona Climate Change Talks
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Developing countries said on Wednesday they risked "total destruction" unless the rich stepped up the fight against climate change to a level that even the United Nations says is out of reach. Keeping up pressure at U.N. climate talks in Barcelona, the poor insisted that developed countries should...
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