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By Chris Buckley and Patrick Rucker
CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - The United States, China and dozens of other countries rallied around a plan to slow global warming at climate talks on Friday, with Bolivia alone in condemning a deal that needs support...
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Activists of Environment Greenpeace perform next to a giant life ring, during talks on climate change, in Cancun beach December 10, 2010.
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By Chris Buckley and Patrick Rucker
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Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:15am EST
CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - The United States, China and dozens of other countries rallied around a plan to slow global warming at climate talks on Friday, with Bolivia alone in condemning a deal that needs support from all to succeed.
Many environment ministers, nearing the end of two weeks of talks among almost 200 nations, praised a proposal by Mexico to break an impasse between rich and poor countries about greenhouse gas cuts by rich nations under the Kyoto Protocol.
The proposed deal does not include a commitment to extend Kyoto beyond 2012, when it is due to expire, but it would prevent a collapse of climate change negotiations and allow for some modest advances on protecting the environment.
They include setting up a new "Green Climate Fund" to help the world's least developed countries, payments to protect tropical forests, and another agreement to share low carbon technologies.
"What we have now is a text that is not perfect but is certainly a good basis for moving forward," said U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern.
Xie Zhenhua, China's chief delegate at the talks in Mexico's Caribbean beach resort of Cancun, said Beijing supported the proposal: "While there are some shortcomings, we express our satisfaction with it."
China and the United States are the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases.
Other big emitters including the European Union, India and Japan, as well as many developing nations, also backed the deal that would effectively put off a dispute between rich and poor countries about the future of Kyoto until next year.
But Bolivia dismissed the proposed pact as inadequate, and it could derail the talks if it sticks to its guns because any deal under the U.N.-led negotiations needs unanimous support.
"Bolivia is not prepared to sign a document which means an increase of the average temperature, which will put more people close to death," Bolivia's delegate Pablo Solon said.
Bolivia has the toughest demands of any nation at the talks, demanding that rich nations halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2017 from 1990 levels. President Evo Morales told the meeting earlier this week that the climate policies of rich nations were causing "genocide."
His left-wing government will likely come under heavy pressure to agree to the proposed deal at Cancun.
Negotiators here hope that by staving off a crisis over Kyoto and agreeing other measures to limit the impact of climate change, they will help reduce the danger of floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels.
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The talks had earlier been deadlocked after Japan, Russia and Canada said they did not want to extend the Kyoto Protocol, which only obliges about 40 rich countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and only does so until 2012.
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grogman wrote:
Big difference between 100 billion fund in the headline and 100 billion ANNUAL green fund….But what is another 1 trillion …just keep the printing presses running
Dec 10, 2010 7:27pm EST -- Report as abuse
arcoknuti wrote:
Of course, Bolivia has it right and the rest of the posers are just making small talk at the cocktail party.
Dec 11, 2010 2:19am EST -- Report as abuse
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