Bali breakthrough launches climate talks
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - Nearly 200 nations agreed at U.N.-led talks in Bali on Saturday to launch negotiations on a new pact to fight global warming after a reversal by the United States allowed a breakthrough.
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The chief European Union negotiator at a United Nations conference on climate change said new talks under consideration could allow countries to expand the ways they meet reductions in greenhouse gases mandated by the Kyoto Protocol.
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Developing countries are urging changes to a deal drawn up by the US and the EU at the UN climate change conference. The draft agreement emerged late on Friday, after two weeks of negotiations in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.
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The United Nations says momentum is building for broader long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial test.
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The ice is melting and the heat is on for international delegates assembling in Buenos Aires this week to find new ways to confront global warming under the 194-nation treaty on climate change.
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Climate experts and politicians are discussing policies to extend the Kyoto Protocol and tackle global warming. The Protocol was established in 1997 and sets targets for industrialised countries to cut their
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Bloomberg - Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Ban Ki-moon had left the climate- change conference in Bali, Indonesia, to visit United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor when he received an urgent call to go back. Talks on a new global-warming treaty were deadlocked.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - Negotiators at climate talks in Bali tried to break a deadlock on Friday over emissions goals after the European Union accused the United States of blocking progress at the 190-nation meeting.
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NUSA DUA, Bali, Dec 12 (IPS) - The United Nations announced Wednesday it is  joining the growing worldwide effort to go "climate  neutral", an acronym for reducing or offsetting any  greenhouse gases.
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Legislators meet for talks in Washington aimed at finding a new global deal to curb climate change.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - Negotiators at climate talks in Bali on Friday struggled to break a deadlock over U.S. objections to goals for cutting emissions by dropping a reference to a non-binding 2020 target in draft text.
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Envoys from 189 nations continued talks Wednesday at a UN conference to finalize details of a global warming treaty going into effect next year.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel claimed a breakthrough in the fight against climate change on Friday after proposing a European Union summit compromise to set a binding target for renewable fuels.Comment
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - India and China objected on Saturday to a draft deal at U.N. talks in Bali to launch negotiations on a global pact by 2009 to fight climate change, saying rich nations should do more to lead the way.
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Pacific Rim nations reached preliminary agreement Friday on a declaration for tackling climate change, overcoming squabbling between rich and poor nations about emissions targets, two Southeast Asian officials said.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec. 15 -- Delegates from nearly 190 countries emerged from a final 24 hours of bruising negotiations Saturday with an agreement on a new framework for tackling global warming, one that for the first time calls on both the industrialized world and rapidly developing nations to...
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Kevin Conrad has become famous as the Papuan who told the U.S. to either lead or get out of the way at the Bali climate talks.