"This particular text falls far short of our expectations," the European Commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, said of the political declaration produced in talks Friday between President Barack Obama and big developing countries at the U.N. climate conference. Others were harsher in their criticism. Ill-starred though it seemed at its birth, the 11th-hour deal may ultimately be seen as another halting step in the slow, painful evolution of the global fight against climate change - the...
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