• UN climate talks heading towards global post-Kyoto climate change agreement to be in place by 2015
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16118909[/url] [quote=BBC News][b]At the UN climate talks, nations appear to be edging their way to agreeing that a process towards a new carbon-cutting deal should start in the New Year.[/b] [b]A [url=http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/durban_nov_2011/application/pdf/2325_text-_9122011-indaba.pdf]draft text circulated by the South African host government[/url] says the new agreement should be in place by 2015.[/b] All nations would be included, though the exact legal nature is not clear. The move marks a success for the ad-hoc alliance formed between the EU and scores of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries. [b]Earlier drafts had said negotiations should not begin until 2015, and should not take effect until 2020.[/b] The new version does not specify a date from which the new agreement should come into force. But it does for the first time explicitly endorse the fact that there is a mismatch, a gap, between the pledges countries have made on cutting emissions and their stated goal of keeping the rise in average global temperatures since pre-industrial times below 2C (3.6F). The draft emerged around midnight in Durban as negotiators on many of the other detailed strands of the UN climate process were settling in for a long night's work. [b]It will be formally discussed on Saturday morning, with the meeting expected to conclude late in the day.[/b][/quote]
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