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Agreement On Climate Deal Unlikely At Durban U.N. Conference, Ban Says
"Only a binding global accord on cutting greenhouse gases will spare Africa, the world's poorest continent, more devastating floods, droughts and famine, a senior African climate change official said on Tuesday" at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, Reuters reports. "The talks, bringing together nearly 200 nations, have repeatedly struggled to get a new deal to update the Kyoto Protocol, whose crucial clause on enforcing targets on carbon cuts expires at the end of next year," the news service writes. Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, chair of the Africa Group, "said legal force was the only way to make polluters take the necessary action and states who failed to deliver should in effect be 'named and shamed,'" according to the news service (Lewis, 12/7).
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