French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said...
June at latest."Let"s give ourselves six months after the Copenhagen conference to transform political commitments into a legal text," the president said.
The Kyoto Protocol, a legally binding agreement which only requires rich nations to cut carbon emissions, expires in 2012.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at the summit the international community is "running out of time" to address the issue of global warming and called for countries to drop the "us versus them" mentality when it comes to climate change.
The 15th UN climate change conference, the result of two years of international talks on a binding treaty to cut global carbon emissions, began in the Danish capital on December 7. The talks bring together about 15,000 participants from 192 countries.
Scientists have warned that the emissions cuts so far offered at the summit would fail to prevent a catastrophic rise in temperatures.
MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti)
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