At UN Climate Summit in Peru, Protests Take Spotlight

As a two-week climate summit concluded in Lima, Peru, long-running divisions between rich and poor countries continued to hamper agreement on a global treaty to reduce carbon emissions. Developing countries insist the wealthy ones must bear the cost of fighting climate change. And while delegates from more than 190 countries were making last-ditch efforts to hammer out a draft for a new treaty for next year’s climate conference in Paris, activists organized several protests Friday in...

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