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4 strategies for a UN breakthrough on energy and climate change

  • Written by Morgan Bazilian, Professor of Public Policy and Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
imageReducing fossil use and increasing renewable energy worldwide are crucial to both sustainable development and fighting climate change.Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

Two important events hosted by the United Nations are coming up that are widely hoped to help address what the U.N. calls the “dual challenge” – fighting climate change and...

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