BBC: UN climate talks split on treaty

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UN climate talks split on treaty

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

The latest round of UN climate talks in Bangkok has ended with deep divisions over the shape of a new global treaty.

Developing countries want an extension of the Kyoto Protocol; but developed nations are arguing for a completely new agreement.

Poorer countries and environment groups accuse the west of lacking ambition.

There are now only five negotiating days left until the opening of the UN summit in Copenhagen in December that is supposed to finalise the new treaty.

"Just two months before Copenhagen, the Bangkok climate negotiations did little to move the ball forward," said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a leading light in the international climate campaign.

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1. surprise!... the countries without current numerical limits, don't

surprise!... the countries without current numerical limits, don't
want a limit.

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2. You mean… The US?

Or perhaps you had some other country in mind…