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CO2 Treaty Must Not spark "Trade War": U.S. Lawmaker [1]

As the world tries to forge a new treaty to slow global warming, care must be taken not to spark trade conflicts between rich and developing countries, a key U.S. lawmaker said on Thursday.

"We clearly we do not want to trigger a trade war," Ed Markey, a Democrat who heads the House climate change committee, told reporters in a teleconference.

Publication Date: 
27/03/2009
Timothy Gardner [2]
Planet Ark (Australia) [3]
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Carbon Dioxide [4], Global Warming [5], Floods [6], Kyoto Protocol [7], Drought [8], United States Of America (US) [9]
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