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Thu 12 Dec 2009Climate crisis will be the challenge of new decade
OPINION:What will the decade ahead hold for the environment? Mankind has yet to meet the stark challenges posed by global warming, which will not go away
THIS IS not how it was supposed to end. Internationally, this decade was supposed to give us a comprehensive global treaty to contain climate change. In Ireland, some of us allowed ourselves hope that a soft-landing for the Celtic Tiger would herald a “post-materialist” era where environmental and social considerations were given as much weight as economic ones in policymaking.
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