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World Service,06 Jun 1996,13 mins

Negotiating Climate Change

Global Concerns

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How - and why - governments are resisting advice from the IPCC to take action against climate change. Also on the programme how rain failure in Sri Lanka has badly affected the country's ability to produce electricity with hydro power, and Mark Bush of Duke University suggests that coffee plantations and agro-forestry are the best uses for land between rainforests in Brazil.

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