Summit For US-Led Kyoto Substitute Postponed - New Date Uncertain

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CANBERRA, Australia – The first meeting of a U.S.-led alliance aimed at reducing greenhouse gases is unlikely to be held in November as promised, a government minister said Tuesday.

The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Energy Development – which also includes China, Japan, India, South Korea and Australia – was launched in July to develop technologies to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases believed to be warming Earth's atmosphere. It was touted as a more effective solution to global warming than the Kyoto Protocol.

Critics, however, suspected it was a ploy to undo the Kyoto pact and
an excuse for Washington and Canberra to reject the protocol, which took effect in February.

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Australia had said the inaugural meeting of the new pact would be held in November. But Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane on Tuesday said the meeting would be late this year or early next year. He didn't say why the planned November meeting was postponed.

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20051011-0035-globalwarmingmeeting.html

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1. Bush doesn't even pretend he cares what the world thinks

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