Complex Climate Treaty Challenges Experts
Eighteen months before a new climate pact must be agreed, the world appears to be drifting in negotiations that could be the most complex ever, experts said. The pact is needed to replace or extend the Kyoto Protocol on tackling global warming, whose first round ends in 2012. Some 190 countries have agreed to clinch by November 2009 a new or amended pact, mindful it would take at least two years for so many national governments and parliaments to ratify it.