Reuters reported Wednesday afternoon that an enhanced version of the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol is set to be part of the fight against global warming until 2020. That's according to a draft text by Denmark. Parties to the Kyoto Protocol have decided that further commitments for developed countries should take the form of quantified greenhouse gas emission limitation and reduction objectives. The Kyoto Protocol obliges all industrialized nations, except the United States, to cut greenhouse gas emissions until 2012.
Still, the 190 nations participating in the Copenhagen climate change conference, want to work out a wider deal involving all countries in combating global warming. The problem to agreement is that poor nations prefer two tracks - Kyoto with deep emissions cuts for the rich and a new, less binding accord for the poor.
Denmark says it is consulting many countries with a variety of texts but not making formal "proposals" yet before a summit of 110 world leaders on December 17-18 at the end of the talks.
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