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POLICY
Governments and Individuals Debate: Are Mandates Needed to Reach Climate Change Targets?
WAYNE PARRY / AP – Governments, organizations and businesses have set ambitious goals to combat climate change. But it is far from clear that those goals can be met without forcing people to do — or not do — certain things.
And that is causing some consternation, even among some people who acknowledge the need to slow the warming of the planet …