Climate treaty talks get green light
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - U.N.-led climate talks in Bali agreed on Saturday to launch negotiations on a new global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol after the United States dropped last-minute opposition.
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High-level climate-change summits this week reveal a supportive environment for action.
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DAVID HARDAKER: Nearly seven years after it was first proposed, the Kyoto Protocol on climate change has now been given the green light - courtesy of the Russian Government.
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Russia&#39;s approval of the Kyoto Protocol this month released the brakes for an agreement that has been under international negotiations since 1997.
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Delight that the UN&#39;s global-warming pact will finally see daylight mixed with veiled demands on Thursday that major polluters United States, China and India also step up their fight on climate change.
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As the UN climate change talks conclude in Buenos Aires, debate has been gathering pace on two main issues: what happens after Kyoto and how to help developing countries best cope with global warming.
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European Union leaders opened a two-day summit on Thursday aimed at thrashing out a landmark accord to fight climate change despite divisions over the best way to choke off greenhouse gases.
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Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett claimed progress on international action over global warming as the US agreed to further talks next year.
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Climate change, energy, closer trade ties and North Korea's nuclear weapon's program will be high on the agenda at talks starting Monday among European Union and Asian foreign ministers.
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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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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec. 14 -- International negotiators continued to meet around the clock here today, making some headway in their effort to forge a road map for achieving a new global climate pact by the end of 2009, including agreement on a deal to protect the world's tropical forests.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - U.N. talks in Bali headed for a deal on Saturday to launch negotiations on a global pact to fight climate change after the European Union and the United States settled a row over 2020 greenhouse gas curbs.
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European Union leaders clinched agreement on Friday on a bold long-term strategy for energy policy and climate change aimed at leading the world in the fight against global warming, diplomats said.
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Negotiators worked through the final day of a two-week U.N. conference Friday in search of a way to bring the United States back into long-term talks on controlling global warming. A key European official saw a "50-50" chance of compromise.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Negotiators expect to reach a compromise on climate-protection talks after working through Friday night, the United Nations official organizing the conference said.
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Russia appears set to approve the Kyoto climate change treaty, which could lead to its adoption worldwide.
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As UN climate change talks begin in Buenos Aires, we examine Britain's proposals to cut greenhouse gases.