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  • Global warming pact set for 2009 after US backs down (Pres Bush caves to PC crowd again)

    12/15/2007 9:22:53 AM PST · by TheEaglehasLanded · 115 replies · 313+ views
    AFP ^ | December 15, 2007
    NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AFP) — World climate negotiators set a 2009 deadline Saturday for a landmark treaty to fight global warming after two weeks of intense haggling led to a climbdown by an isolated United States. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who flew to the Indonesian island of Bali for a late appeal for flexibility, praised the deal as a "pivotal first step" to confront climate change, "the defining challenge of our time." Following gruelling all-night talks, the conference of 190 nations finally launched a process to negotiate a new treaty for when the UN Kyoto Protocol's commitments expire in...