Nations Stalled on Climate Action Could 'Suck It up'

Bloomberg: Twenty years ago, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the world's governments negotiated a treaty -- it's known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- in which they promised to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases "at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system." Some 192 countries, including the U.S. and China, signed on. Since then, the UN, politicians and climate campaigners all have labored to get the...

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