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How one word nearly killed the climate deal
2015-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The proposed accord was just hours from a final vote when the glitch was spotted. Someone had changed a single word in the draft text -- from a should to a shall -- and suddenly the entire climate deal appeared at risk of faltering. Secretary of State John F. Kerry phoned his old friend, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, in exasperation over a tiny revision that implied huge new legal and financial obligations. We cannot do this, Kerry warned. Less than four hours later, the...
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