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Published online 14 April 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/458815a
Money and targets separate developed and developing countries.
Quirin Schiermeier
On 29 March, the initial day of the first of three preparatory meetings for the Copenhagen climate-change summit in December, Todd Stern, the US special envoy on climate change, drew thunderous applause when he told the delegates that he was "determined to make up for lost time". When the meeting ended on 8 April many of the 2,000 delegates had the impression that there was still a lot of making up to do.
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