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The future of the COP: get rid of the negotiations? / Alexis Saba, CCCL Fellow, Climate Law blog, 4/01/2012http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2012/01/04/the-future-of-the-cop-get-rid-of-the-negotiations/There has been a flurry of discussion about the value of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the annual Framework meeting, the Conference of the Parties. After attending the COP17 in Durban, I too raise the same question, especially after recognizing one of the most debilitating aspects of the negotiations—that negotiators understand and discuss climate change on radically different levels...