Conference agrees to reach a new deal on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions by 2008

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) _ More than 180 nations at the U.N. climate conference agreed Friday to reach a new deal on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions by 2008, after conceding to China that developing nations

Friday, November 17th 2006, 5:27 am

By: News On 6


NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) _ More than 180 nations at the U.N. climate conference agreed Friday to reach a new deal on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions by 2008, after conceding to China that developing nations won't be pressed immediately to reduce emissions.

This annual session had been planned as a procedural meeting, more than a substantive one. But the slow pace in the face of mounting evidence of climate change disappointed environmentalists and others.
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