Key UN climate talks set to open

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Source: BBC

Delegates are gathering in China for the final round of UN climate talks before this year's summit in Mexico, which begins at the end of November.

Last year's summit in Copenhagen, billed as a make-or-break year, ended in disarray without a legally binding deal to curb global climate change.

The agenda at the meeting in Tianjin will focus on two main topics:

* Industrialised nations' commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, including further emission reductions after 2012, when the current period ends
* Preparation of a draft negotiating text for the Cancun summit

Last year's Copenhagen summit ended with delegates at the 193-nation UN conference simply "taking note" of a US-led climate deal that recognised the need to limit temperature rises to 2C (3.6F).

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11448632

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1. We have to NATIONALIZE the oil industry and stop burning fossil fuels ....

We've known that for more than 50 years --

but if we don't nationalize our natural resources we will never have

other alternatives.

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2. Will the rich world pay?

... However, after the Copenhagen failure and the continuing battles between developed and developing countries over who should shoulder responsibilities for curbing greenhouse gases, expectations have been lowered.

The focus for now is just on trying to broker small deals on specific issues, such as cooperation on clean energy technologies and rewarding developing countries for not cutting down rainforests.

But scientists say that devastating floods in Pakistan and China this year, as well as fires in Russia, are a taste of the extreme weather that humans will endure if world leaders do not curb greenhouse emissions soon.

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One key issue expected to be in focus in Tianjin is whether negotiators can make progress on a promised fund eventually worth 100 billion dollars a year to help developing countries cope with climate change.

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