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Almost 200 nations extended on Saturday a weakened U.N. plan for fighting global warming until 2020, averting a new setback to two decades of U.N. efforts that have failed to halt rising world greenhouse gas emissions…
The US, a major polluter, has never ratified the original 1997 protocol…
All sides say the Doha decisions fell far short of recommendations by scientists for tougher action to try to avert more heatwaves, sandstorms, floods, droughts and rising sea levels…
Doha climate talks throw lifeline to Kyoto Protocol, Read Full Article, Reuters
Climate talks: UN forum extends Kyoto Protocol to 2020, Read Full Article, BBC News
Talks fail to meet pace of climate change, Greenpeace
Greenpeace condemned politicians today following the failure of the UN Climate talks in Doha. While they agreed to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, it was judged so full of loopholes as to have little or no effect on carbon emissions…
