The world unites against global warming

After two weeks of arduous, emotional negotiations, 187 countries, including the U.S., agreed to negotiate a treaty on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions over the next two years. The framework agreement, made at the U.N. climate conference in Bali, Indonesi

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After two weeks of arduous, emotional negotiations, 187 countries, including the U.S., agreed to negotiate a treaty on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions over the next two years. The framework agreement, made at the U.N. climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, commits the countries to producing a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The Bali agreement contains two key concessions to the U.S.: It drops the Europeans’ call for developed countries to make cuts in emissions of at least 25 percent, requiring instead unspecified “deep cuts.” And, unlike Kyoto, it also requires rapidly developing countries such as China and India to take “verifiable steps” to limit their emissions. The treaty is to be signed in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2009.

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