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The UN Climate Summit and a Key Issue for the 2015 Paris Agreement / Robert N. Stavins, An economic view of the environment, 27/09/2014http://www.robertstavinsblog.org/2014/09/27/the-un-climate-summit-and-a-key-issue-for-2015-paris-agreement/World leaders converged at the United Nations in New York City this past week for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s much anticipated Climate Summit, a lead-up to global negotiations that will take place in Lima, Peru, in December of this year, and culminate a year later in Paris.  The challenge before negotiators is great, because there are significant obstacles to reaching a meaningful agreement, as I describe in an Op-Ed that appeared in The New York Times on Sunday, September 21st, “Climate Realities.”...