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How We Can Achieve a Global Climate Change Accord

October 31, 2014

Featuring

Jeffrey D. Sachs

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Earth Institute, Columbia University

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Tectonics, Paleoclimates, and Paleobiology of Africa’s Western Rift Valley

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