Almost half of people in the world cook their food and heat their homes by burning coal and biomass in open fires or basic stoves.

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The problem is that every extra tonne of carbon on the allowance allows the burning of an equivalent amount of coal and oil, and that giving way to Russia could open the floodgates to claims from other countries.

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