Nov 3rd, 2009 - Bloomberg
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Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations climate talks willresume today in Barcelona after African nations agreed to returnto the table that negotiates emissions targets for 37industrialized countries.
About 50 African nations dropped their boycott of talks onrenewing the Kyoto Protocol accord, John Ashe, chairman of thenegotiations, told delegates after a day-long hold-up.
The UN needs all parties to the 1997 Kyoto agreement toagree on renewing greenhouse-gas limits that are binding ondeveloped countries only through 2012. The protest threatened toderail a two-year program to conclude a new global-warmingtreaty in Copenhagen at a UN climate summit starting Dec. 7.
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In a dramatic day in Barcelona...Africa ends boycott at UN climate talks
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Reuters
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - African nations called off a day-long boycott at U.N. climate talks on Tuesday after winning promises that rich nations would make more efforts to deepen 2020 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.Africans Hold Up UN Climate Talks on Emission Cuts
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Bloomberg
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- About 50 African nations held upUnited Nations climate talks in Barcelona, saying emission-reduction targets proposed by the European Union, Australia andother developed countries aren’t ambitious enough.
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