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Little Progress Made at UN Climate Change Conference

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Cottage Holiday In Wales Dec 19, 2004 (AXcess News) Washington - U.N.-sponsored talks on climate change ended early Saturday with little progress made on efforts to further curb emissions of so-called greenhouse gasses, believed to cause global warming. However, the United States and European Union agreed to meet again in May for informal climate discussions.

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Caravan Holiday In Wales Participants in the two-week conference on climate change in Buenos Aires had hoped to make progress in determining what plan might succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which requires most industrialized countries to make specific cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2012. The accord takes effect in mid-February.

"The poorest of the poor are likely to be most affected as a result of climate change, " he emphasized. The IPCC is presently working on a new assessment which he said "should fill in some of the gaps" in international knowledge. Halldor Thorgeirsson, Deputy Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said the biggest challenge, right now, was to influence investment decisions that could affect the development and implementation of cleaner technologies by the private sector.

Camping Holiday Wales The European Union insists that any future climate agreement must include the United States. However, U.S. delegation chief Paula Dobriansky, U.S. undersecretary of state for global affairs, argued it would be premature to negotiate for after 2012.

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Accommodation Holiday Wales The Clinton administration signed the 1997 Kyoto pact, but the U.S. Senate never ratified it. In 2001, shortly after taking office, President Bush withdrew from the treaty, saying it would harm the U.S. economy. Instead, Mr. Bush has promoted long-term U.S. efforts to develop cleaner-burning energy technologies.

Holiday Last Minute Wales Early Saturday, the United States and the European Union agreed on a meeting in May for informal talks on the global climate.

Catering Holiday Self Wales But Pieter van Geel, Dutch Environment Secretary, says the urgency of the matter means more must be done.Advertisement

Holiday Wales Walking "We have the reports on the Arctic, we have reports in Patagonia, we have a lot of reports, everything shows that climate is changing at a fast rate, and everyone asked that we have to do something, and we all know that what we agreed in Kyoto will not decrease the emission of CO2, so we have to do more," said Pieter van Geel.In addition to worries about the impact of emission cuts on the U.S. economy, the Bush administration wants any future accord to include rapidly developing countries like India and China. Although the United States is the world's largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions, China is projected to surpass U.S. emission levels by 2025.

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