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Dec 2009
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Studying energy for a sustainable future

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
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Godfrey Boyle talks about T206, the course from which the material on this album was drawn 
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Energy policy and climate change
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Godfrey Boyle of The Open University on the key questions for the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 
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Godfrey Boyle updates the preceding films and reveals how energy policies have changed over the last three years 
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