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Global climate talks: If at the 17th you don’t succeed / Richard S J Tol, VoxEU.org, 27 November 2012http://www.voxeu.org/article/global-climate-talks-if-17th-you-don-t-succeedThe 18th UN Conference on climate change negotiations has just started in Doha. This column suggests that the probability of success is a mere is a 2.3%. Recently, over $100 million per year was spent on fruitless negotiations. Having flogged, ever harder for 18 years, the dead horse of legally binding emission targets, the UN should close that chapter and try something new...