Climate-change conference ends with key deals

[CHIMO]

Climate-change conference ends with key deals
Last Updated Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:06:52 EST
CBC News

Delegates to the UN conference on climate change in Montreal have agreed to extend the life of the Kyoto Protocol beyond its 2012 expiration date and negotiate deeper cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions.

For two weeks, delegates from 189 countries – including more than 150 countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol – had seemed to be tottering on the edge of failure as they tried to agree on measures to slow climate change.

Negotiations continued throughout Friday night, with anxious discussions in hallways and tense meetings behind closed doors. Then a last-minute objection from Russia seemed poised to doom the agreement.

But early Saturday, they finally forged an agreement that is being called "the Montreal Action Plan."

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/12/10/climate051210.html

Video here.

http://www.cbc.ca/clips/rm-lo/savory_kyoto051210.rm
The guy that can bring the parties together.

[imouttahere]

1. Bravo! Let the world continue without the U.S.

we deserve to be isolated on this and many other issues. The U.S. delegate's hissy fit about Martin's comments are par for the course for BushCo.

[V. Kid]

2. Talking is all well and good...

...but it'd be nice to actually do something, while the globe is...err warming.