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COP21:

¶ Following three days of hectic parleys over a complex 54-page draft pact, negotiators released a draft document, though there was reportedly no agreement on about 250 undecided options across the text. India has expressed satisfaction with the first draft, saying progress had been made. [Daily News & Analysis]

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¶ A new report, Transformational INDCs: how new renewables pledges could transform the economics of wind and solar, says national climate change plans submitted prior to COP21 have placed the world on the brink of a renewable energy revolution. INDCs are Intended Nationally Determined Contributions. [CleanTechnica]

¶ The once black-and-white world of climate negotiations for poorer countries has shifted at talks this week in Paris. For years, many have said richer countries created the global warming, so it is up to them to…