Climate change affecting Africa's development-Africa Today-12-20-2011

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In Durban, the European Union's climate chief made an impassioned call to the remaining large economies holding out on a deal to join its plan.

China, the US and India are the three remaining major economies that have yet to make clear signals on the EU proposal, which is a road-map to begin negotiations on a new legally binding treaty on global warming that would kick in from 2020.

Connie Hedegaard, the EU climate change commissioner, told the conference: "We need to get them on board today - we don't have many hours left. The world is waiting for them."

At least 120 countries are backing the roadmap that would see countries set a deadline of 2015 to sign a new global legally binding treaty - the first since the 1997 Kyoto protocol with emissions targets that would apply from 2020. The fortnight-long negotiations are scheduled to end on Friday night, though they may carry on into Saturday morning.

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[oliverlaw02]

White people trying to lecture the people who wrote over 3000 yrs ago "seven years of plenty and seven years of famine" about climate change.

[Bahma]

I hope the people find out that the hole global warming thing is a scam.