Talks at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban have entered their last official day, with focus now on a European Union-sponsored road map calling for a new climate treaty to be negotiated by 2015. The treaty would impose binding cuts on the world’s biggest emitters of the heat-trapping gases but would not likely go into effect until 2020. The E.U. plan has received support from key blocs at the talks, including a coalition of small island states and a grouping of the world’s least developed countries. But several of the world’s largest polluters, including the United States, China and India, have refused to back the deal so far.
Final Day of Climate Summit Brings Talk of 2020 Deal
HeadlineDec 09, 2011