Africa Boycott UN Climate Talks

African nations boycotted U.N. climate talks on Tuesday in a protest to urge rich countries to set deeper 2020 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

Meetings about extending the U.N.'s carbon-cutting Kyoto Protocol, one of two tracks for a new global climate deal due to be agreed in Copenhagen next month, were all cancelled by the protests at the Nov. 2-6 conference in Barcelona.

Kyoto binds all industrialised nations except the United States to cut greenhouse gas emissions until 2012. Developing nations say that the key to any new deal in Copenhagen is far deeper 2020 cuts by developed nations than on offer so far.
Reuters