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Date of Publication: February 14, 2014
Year of Publication: 2014
Publisher: TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.
Author(s): Carl Pope
Newspaper: The Huffington Post
AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka placed trade agreements at the center of climate change diplomacy:
How can the United States negotiate a new round of global trade agreements, led by the Trans-Pacific Partnership, with the environmental provisions which make no mention of climate change, the world’s biggest environmental challenge? The current trade model, Trumka points out, pretends that moving emissions from one country to another solves the climate problem — another form of climate denial, but one that lacks even the honesty to admit that it is denial.
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