[Grist coverage]:

Last week, leaders from 158 countries wrapped up a U.N.-convened meeting at which they discussed post-Kyoto Protocol climate targets. Predictably, deadlock and vagueness abounded. The European Union and developing nations pushed for an indication that industrialized countries should be guided by a goal of reducing emissions 25 to 40 percent of 1990 levels by 2020; countries including Canada, Japan, and Russia opposed such approaching-strong language, and the final version of negotiations stated that such numbers provide "useful initial parameters for the overall level of ambition of further emissions reductions." Also, it was generally agreed that emissions should be reduced to "very low levels." The U.S., not having ratified the Kyoto Protocol, was not invited to the party. Nations will come together again in December in Indonesia to try to hammer out an actual post-Kyoto agreement.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/08/31/international/i1...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/wl_canada_nm/canada_climate_col