Copenhagen tests Saudi Arabia’s resistance to climate change
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Issue 868
- 18 Dec 2009
| 4 minute read
For long a staunch opponent of the climate change agenda, Saudi Arabia’s resistance to a new deal on the environment will be put to the test as representatives of 190 countries hammer out an agreement on global energy policy in Copenhagen. Critics say the world’s largest oil exporter has played an obstructionist role in the fight to limit the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that a majority of governments now believe cause climate change.
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