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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10514
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) un/climate

EU hails Durban agreement as historic breakthrough

Brussels, 12/12/2011 (Agence Europe) - Just a little is better than nothing, particularly when nothing was narrowly avoided. Although everybody agrees that the agreement reached on Sunday morning at the UN climate conference in Durban (COP 17) lacks ambition, the European Union, which feared the worst until the very last minute - the breakdown of Durban and legal void created by the expiry of the Kyoto Protocol in a year's time - welcomes the result as a “historic breakthrough for the...

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