Monday, May 14, 2012

U.N. meets to discuss global climate treaty

Associated Press: Long-running arguments over who needs to do what to stop the planet from overheating are back in focus this week as rich and poor countries meet in Bonn, Germany, to resume talks on a new global climate treaty. It's the first major round of talks since countries agreed in Durban, South Africa, in December to come up with a binding agreement by 2015 that would take effect five years later. In a webcast news conference Monday, U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres noted that the cuts in greenhouse...

URL: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/story/2012-05-14/global-warming-climate-change-united-nations-talks/54960960/1

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