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Kyoto countries seen agreeing steps to extend pact
Source: Copyright 2006, Reuters
Date: November 11, 2006
Byline: Alister Doyle and Gerard Wynn
Original URL: Status ONLINE
No breakthrough will happen next week in talks to extend the Kyoto pact on global warming, but a softening of stances will produce an agreement on next steps to take, senior negotiators have told Reuters.
Some 189 countries are debating a united response to the threat of climate change at a 2-week conference in Nairobi.
The Kyoto Protocol has already taken a very small first step to curbing man's contribution to climate change, capping greenhouse gas emissions by some industrialised nations.
Scientists say much tougher caps are needed to avert catastrophic weather changes.
Developing countries have now come to accept that the developed world has to take time to work out the scope of the emissions cuts it can afford with available technologies.
"They have themselves proposed that this be a first step in the work map," said Michael Zammit Cutajar, head of the U.N. group set up to plot Kyoto's future post-2012.
"I don't think there will be a date on it. It will be a ...
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