"Deafening Silence" From Industrial Countires Marks Wrap-up Of Bonn Climate Talks - AFP

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Another round of talks on the road towards a new global deal on climate change was wrapping up here Friday, battered by criticism that progress had been negligible.

The 12-day haggle under the 192-nation UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was the second since the accord in Bali, Indonesia, last December that set down a "roadmap" towards a new planetary treaty.

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Developing nations say the responsibility for global warming lies historically with rich countries, who are best placed for tackling it. So they want the rich nations to come up with detailed proposals as to how they intended to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions post-2012.

On the other hand, many rich nations want to see how emerging giants such as China and India -- set to be the biggest sources of greenhouse gases in the decades to come -- intend to deal with their own fast-growing pollution. Indian representative Chandrashekar Dasgupta deplored "the lack of any real progress" in Bonn and "a deafening silence" among industrialised countries, save the European Union.

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