China, India, Japan Among Those Supporting Emergency Climate Summit - No Word Yet From US - Reuters

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Pressure on the U.N. secretary-general to call an emergency climate summit grew on Wednesday after some of the world's top polluters said they would be interested in attending. Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, said support for a summit has been expressed by Japan, Germany, China, India and a number of developing countries.

Climate change talks in December will seek a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is being lobbied to call a crisis summit of world leaders to set ground rules for that meeting.

A study last week by leading scientists blamed human activities such as burning fossil fuels for accelerated warming and U.N. officials and campaigners hope the findings will spur governments to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

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The U.S. energy secretary, while rejecting the notion of mandatory emission caps, has said he feels there should be a global response "to climate change," de Boer said. "I interpret that to mean we need a global discussion on how we move forward."

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