The UN’s annual climate conference began in the steamy South African city of Durban on Monday amid signs of deep discord over how countries should curb their carbon emissions.
The gathering comes 12 months before the expiry of the main provisions of the 1997 Kyoto protocol, the world’s only comprehensive treaty that legally obliges countries to cut emissions.
Developing countries, exempt from the pact, insist the wealthy countries that signed up for the first phase of Kyoto must make fresh pledges to cut emissions at the conference, which runs until December 9.
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