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Facing the ‘climate cliff’

As the Kyoto Protocol nears its expiry, leaders from around the world will come together in for the United Nations yearly climate talks to discuss a new global deal to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Here in the U.S., we’re obsessed with our fiscal cliff, but the end of the year also brings a deadline the entire world is all but certain to miss. The Kyoto Protocol is the last major international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions and it is set to expire at the end of 2012 with no replacement. It is under that looming shadow that the United Nation’s yearly climate talks began this morning in Doha, Qatar.

 

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