U.S. says seeks new climate deal, rejects Kyoto - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

U.S. says seeks new climate deal, rejects Kyoto
Mon Dec 3, 2007 4:41am EST

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) - The United States said
on Monday it would seek a new global deal to fight
climate change after Australia's move to ratify the
Kyoto Protocol isolated it as the only developed
nation outside the current U.N. pact.

"We're not here to be a roadblock," U.S. delegation
leader Harlan Watson said on the opening day of a
December 3-14 meeting of almost 190 nations in Bali,
Indonesia, seeking to agree a roadmap to work out
a successor to Kyoto which runs to 2012.

"The United States intends to be flexible and work
constructively on a Bali roadmap," he said, referring
to plans for Bali to launch two years of negotiations
on a new U.N.-led deal to fight climate change
beyond 2012.

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CLEAN COAL

Washington has ploughed billions of dollars into
new technologies, ranging from hydrogen to "clean
coal," rating the hope of breakthroughs a better
solution than Kyoto's caps.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL0361765120071203

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