http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=570&e=1&u=/nm/20041217/sc_nm/environment_dc_11Europe, U.S. in Deadlock on Climate Talks' Last Day
Fri Dec 17,12:36 PM ET Science - Reuters
By Mary Milliken
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - The European Union (news - web sites) and the United States struggled to break a deadlock on the last day of a U.N. climate-change meeting on Friday, but Washington resisted Europe's interest in steps to fight global warming after the international Kyoto pact ends in 2012.
The impasse may also thwart an agreement on climate aid for developing countries, the most hurt by the rise in world temperatures linked to man-made emissions like carbon dioxide.
The Europeans, the leaders in the fight against global warming, came to the 12-day meeting aiming to engage the United States, the world's biggest polluter and a dropout from the 1997 Kyoto agreement on climate change.
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