D For "Duh" - Mexico's Calderon Notes Cancun Talks Will Not Produce Binding Climate Treaty - AFP

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Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Saturday that upcoming climate change talks in Mexico will produce "unprecedented results" but not a hoped-for legally binding treaty.

Later this month 194 countries will meet in the Mexican resort city of Cancun for a second attempt at hammering out an agreement to curb greenhouse gases after 2012, when the current arrangement expires.

The climate gathering takes place in the shadow of last December's Copenhagen summit, which ended in failure after China was accused of blocking a deal on binding commitments.

"There are reasons that allow us to be moderately optimistic about what is going to happen there (in Cancun)," Calderon said in a speech to a business conference ahead of a Pacific Rim summit in Japan. "It is not possible to expect the founding treaty of the future (with) the legally binding commitments that we all want," he said on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) talks.

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