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Good deal or bad? Emotional turmoil as Paris climate talks draw to a close

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageWar of the world.Stephane Mahe/Reuters

How should we react to the likely outcome of the Paris climate conference? Unless something dramatic happens overnight it is very likely that the news media on Sunday morning will hail the Paris agreement as a breakthrough and a big victory for those pushing for strong action on carbon emissions.

Yet on Friday...

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The final countdown: Paris talks overrun but a climate deal is within reach

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imagePulling an all-nighter as the climate talks enter their final frenetic hours.

The UN climate summit is due to reach an agreement on Saturday afternoon, Paris time. By this stage of the ill-fated Copenhagen summit six years ago, the wheels were already coming off. People had started to panic. The grand dream - laughably ambitious in retrospect - was...

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