Interview, Update 1-China Says Can Make Carbon Curbs "Binding"

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 30 No. 12, December 2010

U.N. climate talks in Mexico's Cancun beach resort hinge on agreement to cement national emissions targets after 2012 when the current round of Kyoto carbon caps end.

China's compromise would depend on the United States agreeing to binding emissions cuts and an extension of Kyoto, which binds the emissions of nearly 40 developed countries, except the United States which didn't ratify it. Read the full report here.

Source: by Chris Buckley, Cancun, Mexico, Reuters, Africa.

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