A U.N.-led fight against global warming is likely to be more flexible after
2012 in hopes of enlisting outsiders such as the United States and China,
delegates at U.N. climate talks say.
Ideas floated at the Nov. 6-17 talks include technology and aid for poor nations
in return for braking a rise in greenhouse gases, sectoral goals for industries
such as steel or aluminium, or credits to slow deforestation in the Amazon or
Congo basins.
"We have to make it attractive for countries to take part," Yvo de Boer, head of
the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, said of ideas for widening the U.N.'s Kyoto
Protocol beyond 2012 which sets strict caps on emissions.
"I see people looking at a larger menu of options and I find that very
constructive," he told Reuters.
Kyoto binds 35 developing nations to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly
from burning fossil fuels, to 5 percent below 1990 ...