Climate Central: Developing countries have the opportunity to leapfrog the west in economic development if they go straight to clean technology while rich countries struggle to wean themselves off fossil fuels, president Francois Hollande of France said on Wednesday.
"They are going to be skipping the stage where industrialized countries were stopped for a long time, for many decades,' he said. "We were dependent on fossil fuel, which means we now have to concentrate on the transition in the medium to long term...