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Pipe dream

Ecuador's president has called time on the Yasuní–ITT Initiative. Anna Petherick asks what the world can learn from it.

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Petherick, A. Pipe dream. Nature Clim Change 3, 859–860 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2011

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