Behold I Bring Mormons Tidings of Great Joy: Delegates from 160 countries begin climate change talks

"Delegates begin climate-change talks in Bangkok
By Thomas Fuller
Published: March 31, 2008

BANGKOK: Representatives from more than 160 countries began
formal negotiations here Monday on a treaty to mitigate
climate change, with the secretary general of the United
Nations, Ban Ki Moon, urging governments to help in "saving
the planet."

The talks, which are scheduled to conclude at the end of
2009, come three months after a rancorous meeting in
Indonesia that exposed deep fissures in how countries plan
to battle global warming.

"Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you
aim and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal,"
Ban told delegates in a prerecorded video message.

No breakthroughs are expected at the weeklong meeting in
Bangkok, which is mainly intended to lay out the agenda for
a series of subsequent sessions.

"We see this as very much a process-oriented meeting, no
negotiations per se on numbers," said Harlan Watson, the
negotiator representing the United States at the talks.

One of the main challenges for negotiators over the next 21
months will be reintroducing the United States into a global
system of emissions reductions. The United States signed but
never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 agreement that
binds wealthy countries to specific cuts in greenhouse
gases. The new treaty would replace the Kyoto Protocol,
although some provisions of the previous treaty would
remain.

Angela Anderson, director of the global warming program at
the Pew Charitable Trusts, an American nonpartisan
organization, said that negotiators were watching the U.S.
election campaign closely for signs of future changes in
U.S. climate change policy. . ."

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