Climate talks reach accord

Climate talks reach accord

DURBAN, South Africa - Christiana Figueres (front L), executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, and South African foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane hug after the U.N. climate talks reached an accord in Durban, South Africa, in the early hours of Dec. 11, 2011. The 17th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP17, agreed to launch a new framework in 2020 including major emitters China and the United States aimed at tackling greenhouse gas emissions, while extending the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.

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