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President Barack Obama (AFP)
Key powers in climate compromise
Key states reach a deal they describe as a first step in tackling climate change, amid warnings it does not go far enough.
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The media's verdict
Correspondents' log
Obama: 'A first step'

Globe exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark (19 Dec 2009) China rejects climate allegations
Beijing dismisses claims by UK Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband that it blocked progress at the Copenhagen talks.

Snow-covered "Cool Globe", part of an exhibition about combating global warming in Copenhagen, 19 december 2009 Climate deal is 'a start', says UN
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says a US-backed climate deal is a good beginning, but critics dismiss it as a failure.

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Wind turbines at Greensburg, Kansas Green signal?
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KEY STORIES
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CLIMATE ECONOMICS
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Copenhagen's battle over money
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Carbon market's uncertain future
Can we go 100% renewable?

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High temperatures, higher seas and less fresh water
Jilin, China Counter currents
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Factories emitting greenhouse gases Cap and trade
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Earth from space Tech solutions?
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Waves Waters rising
Two cities, in Africa and Europe, braced for higher seas

ANALYSIS
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Where's the beef?
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CLIMATE CHANGE GLOSSARY

EARTH WATCH
Richard Black Richard Black on what's happening to our shared environment

New beginnings
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ETHICAL MAN
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VIDEO REPORTS
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Gordon Brown Brown: 'Still determined to get treaty'

Barack Obama Obama's closing statement in full

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