The man who shaped the climate agenda in Paris, Maurice Strong, leaves a complicated legacy

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Maurice Strong, Special advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, poses for a photo in Ottawa Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2003. The head of the U.N.’s environmental agency says Strong, whose work helped lead to the landmark climate summit that begins in Paris on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015, has died. He was 86. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson

This article was originally published on November 23, 2016

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