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U.S. in Copenhagen Sells Consolation Prize as the Big Climate Change Win

COPENHAGEN -- Who needs a binding global climate treaty? That was essentially the message delivered by Jonathan Pershing, the Obama administration's deputy special climate change envoy, when he held an off-the-record briefing for US nongovernmental outfits at the Copenhagen climate summit on Tuesday. Speaking to about 200 people from various environmental groups, Pershing made the case that a non-binding political agreement--in which the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases would pledge to take various actions to reduce their own emissions--would be more effective than a treaty ...

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