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The Prospect for Multilateral Cooperation on Climate Change

| May 20, 2010

Trevor Houser and Shashank Mohan speak at a Peterson Institute and World Resources Institute co-hosted conference on the international community’s ability to address climate change. Mr. Houser speaks on the first panel, “The Issue: Advancing Cooperation on Climate-Change Post-Copenhagen,” and with Shashank Mohan on the second panel, “Assessing the American Power Act.”

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