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Climate Change Conference Ends in Stalemate


The Washington Post


With the gap between industrialized and developing countries still wide, the best that U.N. officials could offer were small achievements.
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A United Nations conference on climate change -- intended to lay the groundwork for a global agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions in December -- concluded today with negotiators little closer to a deal.

The conference in Bonn, Germany, follows a U.S. House committee's passage of a bill to cap American emissions. The bill's sponsors had hoped it would inspire the world to take serious action against climate change.

That didn't happen.

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