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US undercutting post Kyoto talks

  • 14/10/2007

US undercutting post Kyoto talks  us President George W Bush has announced a climate meeting for the end of September. The announcement comes at a time when there is already a un-led initiative to hammer out an agreement on emission targets after the expiry of Kyoto Protocol, and must been seen as another instance of the us side-stepping multilateral negotiations.

The un Framework Convention on Climate Change (unfccc) has decided on a meet in Bali, Indonesia, in December this year, to discuss measures to be adopted after 2012