Agence France-Presse: Nearly 200 nations will gather in Doha from Monday for a new round of U.N. climate talks to hammer out the future of the Kyoto Protocol beyond Dec. 31. What is the Kyoto Protocol? With 191 member states, the U.N. accord is the only global treaty with binding limits on climate-altering greenhouse gases. The treaty commits nearly 40 developed "Annex 1" nations, including Japan, that emit around a quarter of the world's emissions to cut them domestically by an average 5 percent by 2012 from...
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