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Wed 11 Nov 2009Climate expert confident of agreement in Copenhagen
THE VICE-CHAIR of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said he is very optimistic of a strong political agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at next month’s global conference in Copenhagen.
Prof Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, head of climatology and environmental sciences at the University Catholique de Louvain, said while it was certain no legal text would emerge from Copenhagen, he believed “there will be a strong political commitment to reach a final text within a few months”.
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