ClimateWire: Everyone held their breath when Russia took the microphone.
With a draft outcome of a new global climate change agreement on the table, ready to head to the world's ministers to make final high-level political decisions, the stakes Friday were high. If a country were to block it from moving forward, everything could crumble. Indeed, Russian lead negotiator Oleg Shamanov was angry and denounced the United Nations as "discriminatory" for not translating the text into Russian.
Vladimir Chuprov,...