U.S, Australia Call for “New World Deal” vs. Climate Change

OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. and Australian calls for a new world deal to fight climate change and ditch the United Nations’ Kyoto Protocol misrepresent key elements of the U.N. plan, the global body’s top climate official said on Thursday.

“I’ve read some things recently which rather concern me,” Yvo de Boer said of U.S. and Australian criticisms of Kyoto. The United States and Australia are the only industrial countries outside Kyoto and favor a broader long-term treaty beyond 2012.

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