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US-China Agreement: Benefits of Modest Non-Binding Deal may be Mainly Political / Nathan Richardson, Common Resources, 13/11/2014http://common-resources.org/2014/us-china-agreement-benefits-of-modest-non-binding-deal-may-be-mainly-political/A lot has been written about the new climate agreement between the US and China made at the APEC summit this week. Almost all of it is very positive, framing the agreement as a major policy breakthrough with big impacts on both international climate negotiations and on the climate change problem itself. I confess I’m much more skeptical. I don’t think the agreement signals much change from the status quo...