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Doha climate change negotiations: Moving beyond the dueling dinosaurs to bring together equity and ambition / Timmons Roberts, Up Front, Brookings, 11/12/2012http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2012/12/11-doha-negotiations-robertsThe vast plenary hall was nearly empty. Nation after nation had ministers and negotiators stand up for their three minute statements on the progress of these 18th annual climate negotiations taking place in the cavernous Qatar National Convention Center in the desert near Doha. Slim and greying American lead negotiator Todd Stern mounted the steps to deliver what everyone assumed would be a defensive and rote portrayal of an administration doing all it could, the tired and totally debunked line about how the U.S. is showing leadership on climate action...