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Published online 5 December 2007 | Nature 450, 767 (2007) | doi:10.1038/450767a

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UN talks only one part of the negotiations needed on climate

Parallel discussions have important role to play.

As delegations from around the world converge this week on Bali, Indonesia, for the latest round of United Nations (UN) climate talks, one thing is increasingly clear: although the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is indisputably the main venue for such talks, it is by no means the only one. Nor should it be, many experts say.

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