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Vietnam Heads for Paris with Dirty Hands

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Dec 05, 2015
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Vietnam belongs to the sad club of countries whose small carbon footprints offer no protection against bleak climate futures. Only the low-lying Netherlands—a country with a GDP five times Vietnam's—stands to lose as much land from a slight rise in sea levels.

Given the stakes, Vietnam might be expected to walk into Paris with a plan fit to raise Europea…

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