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Climate Change and Latin America
Apr 8 2008, Trevor

The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean confront a twin dilemma. On the one hand, they must boost their energy consumption to fuel economic and social development. But on the other, energy use is largely responsible for an increase in greenhouse...

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