UN Chief Slams Rich Nations' Plans to Delay Climate Change Treaty
<div class='node-body'><p>The United Nations' environment chief has slammed plans by the world's richest nations to put off a global treaty on climate change to 2020, saying the proposals were "very high risk".</p>
<p>Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN environment program, said postponing an agreement – which was meant to be signed in 2013 – to the end of this decade was a "political choice" rather than one based on science.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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