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More bad news from holier-than-America Europe: Great Britain won't meet its Kyoto Protocol target of a 20 percent reduction in emissions of six greenhouse gases by 2010, and chances of achieving that goal by 2020 are almost as bleak. The admission by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs merely confirms what Cambridge University and others have been saying for years. Britain, like most of the rest of Europe, Canada and scores of other global-warming citadels throughout the world, is hopelessly out of compliance. About the only nations on target to live up to their Kyoto obligations are China,...

UN climate change meeting bogged down over future emission cuts Sharp divisions between the world's rich and poor countries over greenhouse gases are thwarting efforts by delegates at a high-powered UN meeting here on global warming to agree on a draft declaration, officials said Friday. Environment ministers and experts battled until dawn Friday, seeking consensus on a Delhi Declaration due to be adopted later in the day but failed, Indian officials told AFP. Discussions resumed mid-morning in an attempt to break the impasse, and were expected to drag on once again into the night. The officials said the talks...