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Can climate change negotiations stop the subsidizing of overfishing?

Can climate change negotiations stop the subsidizing of overfishing?

The global fate of fisheries, their decline and overexploitation, may yet show a more promising environmental future. Where trade agreements failed to halt the overfishing of oceans, the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place next month in Copenhagen may yet be the solution. The trick lies in the pledge by the leaders of the G20 group [...]