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Pragmatics in the greenhouse

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How can an efficient climate treaty be framed to accommodate continually developing science? It needs to control widely differing sources and sinks flexibly while explicitly distinguishing those which are well understood and quantified from others.

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  1. Royal Institute of International Affairs, 10 St James's Square, London, SW1Y 4LE, UK

    M. J. Grubb, D. G. Victor & C. W. Hope

  2. Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA

    M. J. Grubb, D. G. Victor & C. W. Hope

  3. Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge, CB2 1RX, UK

    M. J. Grubb, D. G. Victor & C. W. Hope

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