FACTBOX-Achievements at Bali climate talks

Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:01am GMT
 
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Jan 30 (Reuters) - The world's biggest emitters of global-warming greenhouse gases met behind closed doors in Honolulu on Wednesday for a U.S.-sponsored conference as protesters pointed up Hawaii's vulnerability to climate change.

In December, officials at climate talks in Bali, Indonesia, agreed to start two years of negotiations to seal a broader pact to fight global warming.

As part of the meeting among nearly 200 nations, a range of other pressing issues to aid the developing world were discussed. Following is some of what was agreed, or not agreed, at the talks.

TWO-YEAR DIALOGUE

Negotiators agreed to start two years of talks on a new climate deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, the main deal for fighting climate change until 2012, to bind outsiders led by the United States, China and India.

The talks will start with a first meeting by April this year and end with adoption of a new treaty in Copenhagen in late 2009.

A U.S. U-turn allowed the deal to go ahead after a dramatic session in which Washington was booed for opposing demands by poor nations for the rich to do more to help them fight warming.

AMBITION TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE

The Bali talks were never expected to set firm greenhouse gas emissions targets but the Bali agreement did set a global aim for "deep cuts in global emissions" to avoid dangerous climate change.  Continued...

 

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