Article: SA calls for new Kyoto treaty.(News)

BYLINE: Joe Lauria

Environment and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schal-kwyk has urged a UN summit on climate change to come up with a new global agreement to curb global warming when the Kyoto treaty expires in 2012.

"We have to reach an agreement by the end of 2009 on a fair, effective and inclusive framework that builds on the existing climate regime," Van Schalkwyk said on Monday.

"When we meet in Bali" at a UN convention at the end of December, "we must agree to a roadmap for negotiations for the next two years", he said.

More than 150 nations took part in the one-day summit, some at head-of-government level, such as Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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