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Time to ditch Kyoto

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Climate policy after 2012, when the Kyoto treaty expires, needs a radical rethink. More of the same won't do, argue Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner.

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  1. Gwyn Prins is at the London School of Economics Mackinder Centre for the Study of Long Wave Events, London WC2A 2AE, UK.,

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  2. Steve Rayner is at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1HP, UK.,

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Prins, G., Rayner, S. Time to ditch Kyoto. Nature 449, 973–975 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449973a

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