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Article: Roundup: Bangkok Climate Change Talks end with agreement on further negotiations
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- April 5, 2008
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Roundup: Bangkok Climate Change Talks end with agreement on
further negotiations
BANGKOK, April 5 (Xinhua) -- The Bangkok Climate Change Talks
ended after midnight Friday as delegates from developed and
developing countries agreed on a work plan for future negotiations
to reach a new pact by 2009 on global cooperation in coping with
climate change after 2012.
Before the closing plenary session on Friday, developing
countries held fierce debate and finally rejected Japan's "sectoral
approach," which accusedly attempts to replace the national binding
emissions cut imposed on developed countries under Kyoto Protocol
with targets counted on the basis of industries and sectors in both
developed ...