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Opportunities from uncertainties

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The inability to verify nations' reported progress towards emission-reduction commitments is a stumbling block in climate change negotiations. Narrowing uncertainties in the global carbon cycle could help overcome this obstacle.

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Figure 1: Negotiators at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen in 2009.

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  1. Gary W. Yohe is the Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies in the College of the Environment and the Department of Economics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06459, USA,

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