Friday, October 9, 2009

No deal on crucial issues as UN climate talks end

In this photo taken Saturday, July 22, 2006, Cambodians make their way along a muddy road near Along Veng, Cambodia. U.N. climate talks ended in a whimper Friday without progress on the pressing issues of emission cuts for wealthy nations or financing for the developing ones, both of which are crucial to reaching a global warming pact. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007, a front loader dumps logs onto a truck in Kimbe Bay, New Britain island of Papua New Guinea. U.N. climate talks ended in a whimper Friday without progress on the pressing issues of emission cuts for wealthy nations or financing for the developing ones, both of which are crucial to reaching a global warming pact. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
Friday, October 09, 2009
By MICHAEL CASEY
The Associated Press

BANGKOK — U.N. climate talks ended in a whimper Friday without progress on the pressing issues of emission cuts for wealthy nations or financing for the developing ones, both of which are crucial to reaching a global warming pact.
Negotiations have been deadlocked for months and delegates have raised doubts whether a new climate pact to rein in greenhouse gases can bereached by the time world leaders gather in Copenhagen in December. The pact would replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

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