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U.N. Climate Summit Yields Pledge to Review Kyoto Goals

HeadlineNov 20, 2006

In Kenya, a U.N. summit of environmental ministers wrapped up Friday with promises to take action on climate change—in the future. The summit said it would review the Kyoto accords in 2008 with the possibility of agreeing to further cuts in greenhouse gases. Under Kyoto, signatories must keep their emissions to at least 5 percent below their 1990 levels before the year 2012.

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