In negotiations on nuclear weapons the preferred stance is "Trust but verify". In negotiations on climate change there seems little opportunity for either. Trust, as anyone who attended last year's summit in Copenhagen can attest, is in the shortest of supplies. So, too, is verification.rnBarack Obama was asked when he was in Copenhagen whether a provision by which countries could peek into each others' assessment processes was strong enough to be sure there was no cheating.
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