BusinessGreen: International negotiations to agree a new global climate change treaty should ditch previous commitments to limit warming to two degrees centigrade in favour of a more "flexible" legal agreement, according to the US' top climate change official. Speaking in a wide-ranging lecture at Darmouth University late last week, President Obama's special envoy on climate change, Todd Stern, argued the two degree target that was included in 2009's Copenhagen Accord risked leading to "deadlock" as countries...
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