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Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climatechange as soon. markets all remain in action as effective tools to leverage global climate action and as models to inform. Nations Framework Convention on ClimateChange (UNFCCC). Green Climate Fund.
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The smartest scientists on the face of the planet, the ones studying climatechange and global warming, are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it any more. Natural causes always play a role in changing Earth’s climate, but are now being overwhelmed by human-induced changes.
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