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The Rio Earth Summit
The Rio climate convention is the parent body of every later climate summit, Kyoto and Paris included. The meeting also established the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities" — that countries which have emitted most historically bear the greatest duty to cut. That principle is still the hardest knot in international climate negotiation.
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