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Sixty-five leaders to attend climate summit

By Fiona Harvey in London

Published: November 22 2009 18:54 | Last updated: November 22 2009 18:54

At least 65 world leaders have agreed to attend the Copenhagen summit on climate change in December, raising the stakes on a deal being reached and lending “critical mass” to the meeting, according to senior officials.

The Danish government announced this weekend that leaders of most of the world’s biggest economies were planning to attend, including the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Indonesia. In total, 180 nations are expected at Copenhagen.

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